NEW: The @UAW is about to flex worker power in the South once again.
7,300 workers at Daimler Truck & Thomas Built are ready to walk out and shut down 7 plants at midnight.
The company made $5.8 billion last year, while workers’ wages aren’t even keeping up with inflation.
Workers at Detroit Axle send their support to Daimler Truck workers whose contract is expiring on Friday, April 26. Tick tock Mother Trucker! #StandUpDaimler#StandUpUAW
BREAKING: The writers of Sesame Street have authorized a strike — unanimously.
The 35 writers, unionized with the WGA, could start picketing outside the Sesame workshop offices in NYC as soon as April 24th.
🚨TOMORROW!! (Wednesday, April 16th)
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TEAMSTERS EXTEND LARGEST STRIKE AGAINST AMAZON IN THE U.S.✊️
Today, Amazon delivery drivers represented by #Teamsters@Local_396 in Southern California escalated their unfair labor practice (ULP) #strike against the company by picketing at Amazon’s DAX5 warehouse in the City of Industry. This marks the latest picket extension by @amazonteamsters in their unprecedented strike, now the largest and longest strike against the company in the U.S. The extension arrives weeks before the one-year anniversary of the Palmdale-based workers’ vote to organize with Local 396, becoming the first union of Amazon drivers in the country.
“We will strike for as long as it takes to end Amazon’s worker abuse,” said Michael Leib, an Amazon Teamsters delivery driver from Palmdale. “Amazon thinks it can wait us out and that we’ll grow tired of fighting, but every Amazon warehouse we visit reminds us why our work is so important. We’re doing this for our families, our communities, and for our Amazon brothers and sisters everywhere. We’re not giving up.”
More: teamster.org/2024/04/teamst…#1u
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UAW President @ShawnFainUAW on the explosion of organizing happening across the union:
"What started as a tremor has now become an earthquake. Workers everywhere are standing up to demand their fair share in our economy – and they're willing to strike when necessary to get it.”
Anti-imperialist scholar and activist Walter Rodney was born on this day in 1942.
"By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?"
When Scabby the Rat shows up on a picket line, there's sure to be an employer nearby looking to hoard all the profits and short-change its workers.
MASS MoCA workers are on the 13th day of their strike, fighting for a fair wage and cost of living offer.
#StandUpUAW