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PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

https://twitter.com/StarbucksSolid1/status/1277701643660910601

This was retweeted to me by @iww, so I assume it's legitimate. Please pass this along to anyone you know who works at Starbucks.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2020 22:15

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 05:46

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

From the Latin America thread:

Dreylad posted:

Yeah and it's clear that electoralism isn't the winner in Bolivia, it's a vote after incredible pressure martialed by leftwing institutions and political groups backed by a good chunk of the working population to make sure that any attempt to steal the election would lead to a complete shutdown of Bolivian industry.

Anyone who wants to replicate that resiliency elsewhere better get used to the idea that you have to figure out how to organize a general strike.

PhilippAchtel posted:

So we need to either target the NLRB and corresponding agencies in other nations or just prepare to break labor law.

I don't think big unions will go along with either of those and I don't know how you organize a large strike without them onboard.

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

the big unions are mostly compromised by capital and have been for decades at this point

they won't go along with anything that might lead to revolutionary change - at best they will allow for relief-valve type actions, but even that's a big lift

they are part of the problem and should be dealt with as such

So how do we address this issue? The gen strike discussion earlier this year amounted to exactly nothing because there's no organizational muscle. That's all held by the big unions. If they have no interest in flexing their power outside specified contract windows, what is to be done?

# ¿ Oct 21, 2020 00:51

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

I do what I can in my day-to-day and as an officer, but there is a strong current of conservatism among the older members. There's a militancy there, but more often than not it's directed at the union itself or narrowly toward our own interests rather than labor interests in general.

I guess that's a place to start, but it feels like an extremely thin line to walk to harness that for aggressive action without providing fuel for the members who want to attack unions in general.

Mostly, I'd just like to see us able and willing to strike for more fundamental goals. I've been involved in sympathy marches involving many unions, but as long as that element of work stoppage is off the table, you can always be ignored.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2020 02:24

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

Kanine posted:

https://twitter.com/mondomascots/status/1328359728125149184

Japan is a special place lmao

https://twitter.com/unionion/status/1328650148566601728

I followed the onion.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 14:33

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1357361227270397953?s=19

We gotta make some changes. We have to get smarter, more vigilant and more militant.

Apropos of nothing:

https://twitter.com/theDBH/status/1356650314741518336?s=19

# ¿ Feb 5, 2021 15:23

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/technology/amazon-workers-against-union.html

quote:

Why Amazon Workers Sided With the Company Over a Union

Pay, benefits and an aggressive anti-union campaign by the company helped generate votes at a warehouse in Alabama.

When Graham Brooks received his ballot in early February, asking whether he wanted to form a union at the Amazon warehouse in Alabama where he works, he did not hesitate. He marked the NO box, and mailed the ballot in.

After almost six years of working as a reporter at nearby newspapers, Mr. Brooks, 29, makes about $1.55 more an hour at Amazon, and is optimistic he can move up.

�I personally didn�t see the need for a union,� he said. �If I was being treated differently, I may have voted differently.�

Mr. Brooks is one of almost 1,800 employees who handed Amazon a runaway victory in the company�s hardest-fought battle to keep unions out of its warehouses. The result � announced last week, with 738 workers voting to form a union � dealt a crushing blow to labor and Democrats when conditions appeared ripe for them to make advances.

For some workers at the warehouse, like Mr. Brooks, the minimum wage of $15 an hour is more than they made in previous jobs and provided a powerful incentive to side with the company. Amazon�s health insurance, which kicks in on the first day of employment, also encouraged loyalty, workers said.

Carla Johnson, 44, said she had learned she had brain cancer just a few months after starting work last year at the warehouse, which is in Bessemer, Ala. Amazon�s health care covered her treatment.

�I was able to come in Day 1 with benefits, and that could have possibly made the difference in life or death,� Ms. Johnson said at a press event that Amazon organized after the vote.

Patricia Rivera, who worked at the Bessemer warehouse from September until January, said many of her co-workers in their 20s or younger had opposed the union because they felt pressured by Amazon�s anti-union campaign and felt that the wages and benefits were solid.

�For a younger person, it�s the most money they ever made,� said Ms. Rivera, 62, who would have voted in favor of the union had she stayed. �I give them credit. They start you out and you get insurance right away.�

Ms. Rivera left Amazon because she felt she wasn�t adequately compensated for time she had to take off while quarantining after exposure to Covid-19 at work, she said.

Amazon, in a statement after the election, said, �We�re not perfect, but we�re proud of our team and what we offer, and will keep working to get better every day.�

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Crab bucket yet again stomps out a nascent union. People are convinced things can never get better and that they don't deserve it anyway.

RIP

# ¿ Apr 27, 2021 17:09

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

https://twitter.com/PhillyAFLCIO/status/1429489599781421060?s=19

# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 02:56

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 05:46

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/12/23069415/apple-retail-unionization-talking-points-scripts

quote:

The report says the company has sent around a document full of talking points like “an outside union that doesn’t know Apple” or its culture."

# ¿ May 13, 2022 15:58

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