Some Kellogg's workers are asking the public to stop buying Kellogg's products as workers have been on strike for two months and the company is working to replace them rather than negotiate a fair contract.
This is a beautiful post from a workers' wife on the strike
Likely the biggest union battle in the country right now, 41,000 union members fighting Disney's poverty wages as Disney withholds their bonuses and its barely getting covered in the media
Amazon workers at DEN4 in Colorado say an elderly worker died on the job on 12/28 after returning from a medical leave and instead of shutting down the area, Amazon managers stacked boxes around the body until a coroner could arrive so they could keep workers working through it
Whole Foods is giving workers a new work uniform shirt with "hero" on the front and "hardcore" on the back as hundreds of workers have gotten sick and at least 2 have died from coronavirus for just a $2 an hr wage increase
This guy gets a 26.5 percent raise after presiding over $3 billion in losses and people have the audacity to lose their minds over fast food workers getting $20 an hour in CA
News:
@AOC
is joining the picket line on Saturday afternoon at Catholic Health Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, NY where 2k healthcare workers are on strike over a long-standing staffing crisis
American Airlines CEO received $10.66 million in compensation last year, still forced thousands of workers into leave, early retirement, and furloughs. Now he's blaming labor shortages and weather for cutting flights
I spoke with Starbucks workers who launched a union organizing drive this week. They have publicly requested Starbucks agree to a fair union election process amid the company's union busting record
221 Starbucks stores won union elections, so far, but only 3 stores have had their first bargaining sessions due to Starbucks’ union-busting and delay tactics
The NLRB is currently processing 284 unfair labor practice charges against Starbucks
#Striketober
60,000 Film and TV workers set 10/18 strike date
10,000 John Deere workers strike deadline tonight
2k hospital workers in Buffalo already on strike
1,400 Kellogg's cereal workers
1,100 coal miners in Alabama
30k+ Kaiser Permanente health workers authorized strike
A Tesla worker told me they are being intimidated into returning to work with false claims their unemployment benefits will stop; Tesla workers can continue collecting and do not have to return to work while shelter in place order is in effect.
Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.
On January 9th, an Oklahoma meat processing plant called the police on a worker, a 26-year-old Sudan refugee, who shot and killed him.
The worker who took this video leading up to the incident said the worker was fired by a supervisor, but HR told them to finish their shift.
You can mute "Susan Sarandon" and its free. The mental healthcare you need for your seething hate toward her in lieu of introspection within the Democratic Party establishment might cost a little more
I would literally pay for a service to purge
@SusanSarandon
in every form from my feed. This woman has borne no pain from her stance on Trump and seems perfectly happy at the suffering of others. Kids in cages. But thankfully she’s inspired.
Workers at Amazon warehouse in Shakopee, MN walked off the job last night to protest the firing of a worker after she pushed for better safety protections
I find it really funny that a Fortune 500 company feels compelled to turn off comments on its posts trying to explain to the public why their own workers are striking
BREAKING: HB 2127 has been declared unconstitutional.
This is a HUGE win for the working people of Texas, local govs, and communities across our state.
While we expect an appeal, it remains clear this law is an unacceptable infringement on the rights of Texans and cities.
Starbucks workers are asking the public to push back on Starbucks' decision to permanently close the store after workers went on strike last month to demand the company fix a broken grease trap
#CollegeAveStrong
#ShameOnStarbucks
NEW: Whole Foods workers are calling for a sickout across the US on March 31st in response to worsening working conditions through the coronavirus pandemic
Police claimed in a press release the worker was armed with a knife, but the worker who took this video claimed all he had was a small box cutter knife used in the packing section, which the worker can be seen holding.
Do not cross the picket line, do not scab, support the Kellogg's workers' strike funds and show your support if you are in the Omaha, Battle Creek, Memphis, or Lancaster areas.
Workers are holding the line against Kellogg's through rough winter conditions right now.
In an exclusive interview airing tomorrow on
@MeetThePress
,
@JoeBiden
called on
@SenSanders
to accept greater accountability for tactics and rhetoric of his staunchest supporters: "If any of my supporters did that, I’d disown them.”
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Domino's workers in Los Angeles are on strike after 4 workers tested positive for COVID-19.They filed an emergency complaint with county public health officials to shut the store down
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Perretti, whose net worth is estimated at $200 million, is anti-union and has opposed any efforts for BuzzFeed employees to unionize so he can get away with cuts like this
14,000 Disneyland workers have voted 99 percent in favor of an unfair labor practice strike authorization. The bargaining committee can call a strike at anytime as the contract expired last month
Flight attendants at American, United, and Alaska Airlines are fighting to be paid for all time on duty in new contracts
"All of that time we spend with passengers on the ground or sitting and waiting for other aircrafts in between flights goes unpaid"
DNC comms consultant scrubbed their MSNBC role right after I asked MSNBC about Elrod appearing on the network while getting paid $5k monthly in 2019 by the DNC. MSNBC won't comment on record. Elrod has frequently disparaged Bernie, defended Biden on the network.
Southwest Airlines flight attendants represented by TWI Local 556 call out the airline company for massive cancellations that are also leaving flight attendants stranded and blame years of neglect to technological improvements that would fix operational issues
All the big insurance companies are starting to pour money behind Blue Dog Democrats to ensure Medicare for All supporters aren't elected into congress with the blue wave
McDonald's workers in Oakland, CA are on strike, shutting down the restaurant since yesterday. Today they held a protest outside demanding PPE and paid quarantine leave h/t Fight for $15
Easy fix. If Biden dropped out, then there would be no reason to pay attention to his horrid record and the dumb things he says every time he's in front of an audience, which always happens to be insanely rich people.
Wal-Mart has refused to give the $2 an hour hazard pay most grocery stores offered workers during the pandemic. Instead all they're getting is a free candy bar and soda or a single scoop of ice cream
Starbucks has fired over 125 union supporting workers with the company denying, appealing, and refusing to acknowledge wrong doing as workers are beginning to win court and NLRB rulings over labor laws violations
Starbucks has fired at least 9 union supporting workers in Denver, Colorado alone after their stores voted to unionize
“Every single day for three months, I walked in expecting to be fired"
We're also striking to demand a safe workplace.
We face excessive heat in the middle of a heat wave.
We're demanding an AC system that works and believe that there is a gas leak in the storage area near the water heater.
Fix it,
@tacobell
Around 300 workers at ZeniMax win union, the first video gaming studio at Microsoft to win union representation and now the largest certified unionized gaming studio in the US
160k actors
11k writers
Thousands of hotel workers in CA
1.4k Wabtec
Looming possible strikes
340k UPS workers
22k Yellow workers
1.5k IATSE
Later this year
150k autoworkers
85k Kaiser Perm.
224k workers struck in 2022, up from 140k in 2021, and 2023 is on track to be bigger
Whole Foods executives are working from home and they have the audacity to cut paid breaks for workers during a pandemic. This is after cutting healthcare benefits in 2019 and eliminating hazard pay last June.
The scummy PR firm hired by the cop who killed Botham is hard at work, and plenty of sleazy media outlets are more than willing to print this racist smear campaign against a murder victim
Over 75,000 workers poised for largest healthcare strike in US history tomorrow morning
“They always praised us as healthcare heroes during the pandemic and now they’re treating us like zeros by not bargaining in good faith”
Disney has no problem letting putting their workers through 60 hour weeks just to get by, but are notorious for refusing time off. In this article, a former employee notes a colleague's time off request for her wedding was rejected 9 months in advance,
Breaking: Burgerville employees in Portland, Oregon will be allowed to vote on forming a union, which would make it the first fast food union in the United States
Disney is withholding bonuses only from union members involved in negotiations of wage contract. If unions don't accept meager proposal from Disney by August 31, they lose entire bonus.
48,000 TAs, grad workers, and student researchers are voting to authorize a strike with results expected tomorrow
If they go on strike, it will be the biggest strike in the history of higher education
What’s more, 17,000 of these workers are striking for their very first contract. They’re fighting for fair pay, affordable housing, workplace equity for international scholars and working parents and other basic measures of dignity.
Prior to the strike authorization vote, Kroger was refusing to meet with the union for contract negotiations. Kroger is now meeting with the union on November 30.
Bernie Sanders is the only politician speaking out on this issue. I've met with dozens of Disney workers struggling to make ends meet and living out of motels or their cars over the past several months,
#StopDisneyPoverty
Unions are asking for a $15 an hour minimum wage. Under Disney's current proposal, it wouldn't get there until 2028. Disney Property falls under its own municipality and sets local wage standards because of their size. Disney World is largest single location employer in US
A judge ruled Starbucks founder Howard Schultz personally broke labor law by telling a worker they should quit if they dont like Starbucks' anti-union behavior
McDonald's hired a registered sex offender as a manager who then raped a 14-year-old employee at a Pittsburgh, PA location.
McDonalds and the franchisee have agreed to a settlement of $4.35 million
Workers in the Amtrak Service Workers Council (TWU, UNITE HERE, TCU-IAM) are protesting job cuts in dining car service and also standing in support of passengers against Amtrak's shift to lower quality meals, and this sign is the funniest thing ever to me
CEO pay at Ford, GM, and Stellantis has increased 40 percent while worker wages have fallen 19.3 percent since 2008 with inflation taken into account.
CEO pay at the Big 3 is substantially higher than CEO pay at foreign automakers with bigger revenues
100k flight attendants across 3 unions and multiple airlines are picketing at +30 major airports today in their fight for setting new industry standards in contract negotiations
‘It’s going to be historic’: US flight attendants picket at major airports
Disney pays workers so little, many of them experience homelessness and have to live in pay-by-the week motels. That means no kitchen, only one room many have to share with other employees, and they often have to move around.