Fuck Yeah Organized Labor

A blog dedicated to the triumphs of labor in the past and making sure that there are many more to come

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Australian print ad for the Game Boy Color, featuring screenshots from Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.

Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: Nintendo Magazine System (Australia), Issue 75, 1999

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Some of my coworkers, ufcw buddies, and good friends.

Thank you for personally meeting with us today Mike Wilson, Wilson Stone, and Michael Meredith.

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Rami Malek's identical twin Sami dresses up as a cowboy to protest during the teachers strike in LA

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damn we really in the wildest timeline huh

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Oof that’s the tea

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WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY

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My dad told me recently that the most important public health workers are garbage collectors and janitors. So much of our health relies on a clean environment. These people do some of the most important work in society. If we learned in dirty public environments full of garbage, we’d all be sick. I cannot thank these people enough for the valuable work that they do.

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Shout out to all garbage collectors, janitors and housekeepers!

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this is so sad alexa unionize your workplace

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SAG-AFTRA Seeks TV Animation Strike Authorization

SAG-AFTRA leaders are seeking a strike authorization from members working in TV animation with a July 18 deadline to respond. The key issue for the union is the refusal of employers to provide scal…

“In other words, when you go to work on an animated program made for new media, the producer can pay you as little as you are willing to accept and will likely be able to use the program on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, iTunes, etc. for subscribers to view or customers to pay to download forever without ever paying you a residual.”

“The strike authorization campaign has the backing of a number of high-profile performers include Pamela Adlon, Ed Asner, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellanata, Nick Kroll, Laraine Newman, Patton Oswalt, Cassandra Peterson and Mindy Sterling”

Pay attention to this

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UPS Teamsters ready to stage America's biggest strike since 1997, with solidarity as the main sticking point

Unionized UPS Teamsters – 260,000 of them – are set to strike in the biggest American strike since UPS’s unionized drivers walked out in 1997.

Superficially, the issue is about the company moving to seven-day delivery, but the issue that’s forcing the strike is the sizable cohort of union members who are unwilling to accept a two-tier workplace where established workers get the full protection of the union and younger hires are given a worse deal. This has been a traditional way that employers have split, weakened and ultimately killed their workers’ unions – by buying off the long-established employees with better deals that make the workers who’ll replace them feel that unions have nothing to offer them, which establishes divisions that can be exploited later to lay off those higher-paid workers, leaving only the lowest-paid employees and no union they can use to press for better pay.

It seems like some of UPS’s Teamsters have figured out that solidarity pays.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/06/divide-and-rule-2.html

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Yo, if they do strike, don’t listen to the media bitching about those workers being uppity or what the fuck ever. Transit and shipping is a increasingly huge industry in the US, and the Teamsters should be cheered on and congratulated for demanding solidarity and support for junior workers–formal union members or not.

If you’re waiting longer on Amazon packages or whatever, of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t complain–but frame your complaints to aim at UPS management for failing to treat its workers well and negotiate, not at the workers themselves. In this Second Gilded Age, that’s the only way we’re ever going to see any kind of improvement from the exploitation of the nation by the uber-wealthy–and UPS certainly qualifies.

Solidarity, motherfuckers.

[anarchyisfunandfree]

Notable dumbass Elon Musk doesn’t know when to quit

[srsishere]

Just a little taste of what’s going on at my workplace right now. We have been fighting for a raise because a lot of people who work at Disney have to work 60+ hours a week just to get by. What was their response? “Ok, everyone gets a bonus. $1000. But not all at once. $500 now and $500 at the end of the year.” (in case some people get fired or quit, so they don’t have to pay the full amount to those people). Of course, we were like “No, that’s not what we said we wanted. We want a PERMANENT RAISE.” So Disney was like OK, fine, whoever is NOT part of the union fighting for a raise gets the $1000 bonus :) Meanwhile, we are still fighting for a raise…

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I’m sorry, this has 62 notes and that is INCREDIBLE BULLSHIT.

I’ve been watching Disney since I was 4 years old. So basically since i was 4 years old, Disney’s been making a profit off of me; the same way they make a profit off of the average 4 year old. 

I don’t care what dystopian madness of a world you live in, if your primary audience is CHILDREN, you are ethically freakin obligated to behave and treat your employees in a humane manner.

You don’t get to make literally billions of dollars off of kids’ wonder and awe and hope in the world while exploiting and contributing to the suffering of 100,000+ human beings.

You don’t get to fucking do that.

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>:[ spread this. What the fuck, Disney?

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Pay labour like they’re worth something or give back the tax cuts!