hotlaborsummer

🚨It's official––it's another #HotLaborSummer. In honor of @SEIU721 LA workers on STRIKE today– Here's info about some of the biggest labor fights this summer & ways you can support them: 🧵

It's day 4 of @njgov #ExtremeHeat wave 🔥🥵 🌡️ The temp inside a warehouse can hit 100+ degrees in the summer. 💰But corporations are denying workers water, A/C and rest breaks. 💪Demand heat protections for workers in NJ! ➡️secure.everyaction.com/96M7LPc_WkGmPj…

'Dollars over human bodies' — Corporations are getting greedier, and they're using AI to do it (in partnership with @accountabletech)

Hollywood unions fought to have a say in how AI is used in the writing process — but studios are still finding ways to undermine artists (in partnership with @accountabletech)

WATCH: Screenwriter @JonathanHurwitz shares how AI startup tools are taking over the responsibilities of writers and creatives, and taking the humanity out of the arts.

TOMORROW: Join autoworkers, elected officials, and local labor leaders at 11am at the @Chrysler Corporate Parts Division 5141 Santa Ana St. in Ontario, CA #StandUpUAW #WGAstrong #1u

WE WON OUR UNION!

💥TEAMSTERS RATIFY HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT Today, #Teamsters voted by an overwhelming 86.3 percent to ratify the most historic collective bargaining agreement in the history of @UPS: teamster.org/2023/08/teamst… #HotLaborSummer #1u ✊✊✊

"Sign up at workerorganizing.org and a labor organizer will contact you within 48 hrs to talk about forming a union with your coworkers"

TUESDAY: In cities across the country, the labor movement is coming together for a National Day of Solidarity on August 22 for @sagaftra & @WGAEast @WGAWest members ON STRIKE for a fair contract. Find a picket line near you: actionnetwork.org/event_campaign…

Be inspired by our LA #SagAftraMembers' passion. 🌟💪Check out sagaftrastrike.org and JOIN a #SAGAFTRAstrike picket line TODAY!!

BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨 Hotel workers at the @HotelMayaDT Long Beach, @Lagunacliffs Marriott Dana Point, and @FairmontMiramar in Santa Monica are calling for a boycott because of management’s use or condoning of violence during the largest hotel strike in U.S. history! Read more ⬇️

💥11,500 WGA members who write and produce TV and films are on strike for a fair contract. Join us in supporting them: 📌Join a picket line in NYC or LA: wgacontract2023.org/strike/picket-… 📌Donate to support workers on strike: secure2.convio.net/afa/site/Donat… ✊@WGAEast @WGAWest

WE SHUT IT DOWN ⬇️ From the Harbor to the Valley, thousands of LA City workers walked off the job & hit the picket lines yesterday in a beautiful, energized, & infectiously joyful 24-hour ULP Strike calling for RESPECT. #SolidaritySummer #HotLaborSummer

@SEIU721 💥UNITE HERE 11 hotel & hospitality workers are striking all over Los Angeles. Support them: 📌Join a picket line in LA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 📌Adopt a picket line: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 📌Donate to their strike fund: unitehere11.org/donate-to-the-… ✊@UNITEHERE11

The @SBWorkersUnited Bus Tour has finally reached @Starbucks HQ! It is time for Starbucks to stop stalling and come to the bargaining table with the 8,000+ baristas who have organized a union.

We know that when we strike, we win. We're standing with @seiu721 as they strike today! #SolidaritySummer

"I considered quitting, but it felt like that would be abandoning my friends and coworkers. So, I resolved to make things better..." - Maya, Seattle @Starbucks worker #StarbucksSolidarity

Unionists & community supporters joined the @sbworkersunited bus tour in Seattle, dancing our way through 🔥Strike Place Market🔥 and celebrating worker organizing despite Starbucks’ illegal union busting. Joy and justice go hand in hand! #StarbucksSolidarity

The next generation of screenwriters made their voices heard at the WGAE Young Writers Picket. Seeing aspiring writers speak so passionately about the future of their careers is a great reminder of what we’re fighting for! #WGAstrike Full vid: tiktok.com/t/ZT8L9XeeM/

Today 11,000 Los Angeles City workers are ON STRIKE for the first time in more than 40 years. Picket lines are up across the city. Follow @seiu721 for updates #SolidaritySummer