I come from a union family and walked way further than I thought it would be to see sanders speak at a union hall. Worth it.
The strike that happened a week or so before the event would have had me staying home, had it extended, though. Even tho I only ever saw one single person on the picket line. Only scabs cross the line.
What sucks is that in this economy, employers know that they can get scabs to come in at like a dollar more an hour—union be damned.
We need to get back to where employers feared, or at least listened to, unions and their power of collective bargaining. They’ve done an amazing job of gutting unions, and will not stop until they are made illegal.
The staff union of the National Education Association began its strike on Friday, citing management’s revocation of holiday overtime pay for the Fourth of July holiday and its refusal to provide information on $50 million in outsourced work that may have previously been done by N.E.A.
The strike has shut down the last three days of the four-day convention, as delegates declined to cross a picket line.
The National Education Association has about 2.5 million members nationwide, not including retirees, according to a recent government filing.
said in a statement that it remained “fully committed to a fair bargaining process” and accused the staff union of circulating “misinformation” that “not only misrepresents the facts but also undermines the integrity of our ongoing efforts to honor a fair bargaining process.”
Employees of the United Food and Commercial Workers union held a one-day walkout in May.
The staff of a large local of the Service Employees International Union in California waged a two-week strike in 2022.
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Unless Biden is seeking to employ himself he's not crossing the picket line.
If I bring bottled water to the strikers I am not crossing the picket line.
If Biden parks himself among the strikers and tells them as president that striking is their right and that it is the American way, he is NOT crossing the picket line.