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🪧 Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
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Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
Union approval is at historic highs, yet density keeps falling. The problem isn’t messaging but the lack of strategy that can turn popularity into power.

Condé Nast Accused of ‘Illegal Firings’ of #Union Employees Who ‘Demanded Answers’ About Dozens Of Staff #Layoffs And The Once #Woke Voice #TeenVogue …

Condé Nast Accused of ‘Illegal Firings’ of #Union Employees Who ‘Demanded Answers’ About Dozens Of Staff #Layoffs And The Once #Woke Voice #TeenVogue …

🛠️ New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Union 13:
🎵 Roots Radicals
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https://open.spotify.com/track/3E5c1YmOrevqrlVayctCsi

✊ Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
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Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

I stand in solidarity with Canada Post CUPW workers as they stand against the austerity measures of the Mark Carney government and every government before.
Canada Post must be reformed, expanded, and allowed to thrive as a public service. Home delivery is not the real reason the service is going bankrupt and it should not be the scapegoat!
Create a National Public Postal Bank!
#CanadaPost #UPW #Strike #Union #Solidarity
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dn7zl9dp1o

Here is CUPW's fact sheet on Postal Banking “A Bank for Everyone”
Fun fact!
"our post office used to have a national savings bank – up until 1969 – and there is no reason we shouldn't have one today”
Some other reasons:
"Banks are failing to meet the needs of a growing number of Canadians. Thousands of towns and villages across our country do not have a bank. But many of them have a post office that could provide access to financial and banking services.”
"Postal banking is lucrative!
New Zealand: Kiwibank generated 81% of New Zealand Post's after tax profits.”
"France: Banque Postale has an obligation to provide products and services to as many people as possible. It provides a Livret A or passbook savings account, at no charge, to anyone who requests it. It also provides banking services to the financially vulnerable and financing for social housing, voluntary organizations and microentrepreneurs lacking bank credit.”
"Canada Post's secret postal banking study
Canada Post conducted a secret four-year study on postal banking that indicates that adding this service "would be a win-win strategy" for the corporation. This study was obtained though an Access to Information (ATI) request. Unfortunately, 701 of the study's 811 pages were redacted. CUPW has asked Canada Post's President to release the full report, but he has refused.”
#CanadaPost #UPW #Strike #Union #Solidarity
https://www.cupw.ca/en/campaign/resources/postal-banking-–-bank-everyone-fact-sheet

#NYTimes celebrates #LaborDay by reminding #GOV workers #DJT attempting to suspend #union

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights
The president, who has targeted collective bargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on national security.

So Carney tries to force AC employees back to work after less than 12 hours. Every day, he shows the Liberal Party has abandoned working people, and Carney is just the latest. Trudeau’s government didn’t care either.
“Steven Tufts, associate professor and labour geographer at York University, says Air Canada has become dependent on the federal government to solve its labour-relations issues.
He mentioned last year's dispute between the airline and the pilots' union. Air Canada asked for the government to be ready to step in before the two sides reached a tentative agreement in September 2024.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #union #cupe #solidarity

Here is a “revolutionary idea”.
Let’s take a look at a bunch of male-dominated jobs where men are required to work more than 10-18 hours a day.
I am willing to bet that even on average they are better compensated, probably including overtime.
Now increase flight attendant compensation to be better than that.
#racetothebottom #union #aircanada #workerrights #strike #canpoli

“The airline's latest offer included a 38 per cent increase in total compensation, including benefits and pensions over four years, that it said "would have made our flight attendants the best compensated in Canada." “
Ya…. Because I am sure WestJet and ultra-budget Flair are so well compensated. 🙄
#racetothebottom
#union #aircanada #workerrights #strike #canpoli