Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Happy May Day
That we never forget.
On May 1, 1886, Lucy Parsons helped launch the world’s first May Day and the demand for the eight-hour work day. Along with her husband, anarchist and activist Albert Parsons, and their two children, they led 80,000 working people down the Chicago streets, while more than 100,000 marched in other U.S. cities. A new international holiday was born. Parsons went on to help found the Industrial Workers of the World, continued to give speeches, and worked tirelessly for equality throughout the rest of her life until her death in 1942. Read more about Lucy Parsons in this profile by William Loren Katz at the Zinn Education Project website: http://bit.ly/1cSoMvm and at the Lucy Parsons Center website: http://bit.ly/1fTZ3Tb Here are free role plays and writing activities on labor history from the book The Power In Our Hands (download for free on the Zinn Education Projectwebsite): http://bit.ly/RU5oFp Learn about the history of May Day and the Haymarket affair from an interview with James Green on Democracy Now!: http://bit.ly/1ububmN
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Know This About Amazon and Jeff Bezos and Union Organization
Amazon:
--World's 4th biggest company
--$21 billion a year in profit
--Owner Jeff Bezos is worth $184B, up $70B in a year
--Sends workers 5 anti-union messages a day
--36,000+ employees are on food stamps and Medicaid
--Cost to lift them from poverty? 2% of annual profit
--Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
What a Fine Company, That Amazon!
Yessirree, Bob! That Amazon! What a fantastic, upstanding company, eh? Just doing great work out there for us all. So what if it's owner, Jeff Bezos is worth somewhere closely around 200 billion dollars! So what if, one day last year, his net worth went UP 13 billion dollars in one day! Forget all that! They're doing great work for us and for their employees both. Why, just look at the latest news!
For starters, this broke today:
Amazon Inc. agreed to pay more than $61.7 million to settle allegations it cheated Amazon Flex drivers out of nearly one-third of tips from customers for more than two years. The money paid to the Federal Trade Commission will be used to compensate drivers. The FTC said Amazon in 2015 advertised that a program called Flex would pay drivers $18 to $25 an hour to make deliveries and that they would receive 100% of any tips. But in late 2016 Amazon “secretly reduced its own contribution to drivers’ pay,” according to the FTC complaint.
And Unions? Why, of course with all the money the company and Mr. Bezos are making, they have no problem whatever that Amazon employees have great employment representation! Right??
And with all that money Mr. Bezos makes, why, of course he gives his employees the best, fullest benefits!
Amazon warehouse workers say they struggle to get paid
And working conditions for the employees?? Why, don't even ask! They're the best! The best!
SO WHAT if they also pay ZERO TAXES!
I'm just SO VERY GLAD we've gotten FAR BEYOND the sweat shops and robber barons of 100 years ago, aren't you? Further proof, of course, that, as the Republicans and Right Wingers and Libertarians say, we no way need government regulations over business and industry! Why, everything's working just as it ought! To EVERYONE'S BENEFIT!
So, sure! That Amazon! What a great, great company! So who cares if Mr. Bezos is a multi- multi-billionaire 200 times over! Everything is great at that company!
Other Amazon news breaking this week:
I guess maybe 200 billion dollars is "enough"??
With all the money they're making and the taxes they're not paying, they had to do SOMETHING with all that money! Right??
Monday, August 6, 2018
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Missouri Republicans: It's Class Warfare, All Right
Not only are their efforts unfair to the point of obscene, working to cut the wages of working Missourians, but if they get this, it will hurt Black Missourians and their paychecks even harder.
What “right-to-work” in Missouri means for black workers
A little from the article:
The passage of a so-called “right-to-work” (RTW) law in Missouri would hurt black workers the most, according to two new fact sheets by EPI’s Valerie Wilson and Julia Wolfe. As Wilson explains, “Contrary to how the phrase sounds, these [RTW] laws actually restrict the rights of workers by cutting the financial support going to unions, thus limiting the ability of unions to help workers bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.” The authors find that black Missourians would be disproportionately harmed by RTW, as they are more likely to be covered by a union contract than other workers. The authors also find that wages of black workers in Missouri and other non-RTW states tend to be higher than wages of black workers in RTW states.
As Warren Buffett so famously and rightly said, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
Thanks, as ever, Republicans!
All you are is consistent.
Wouldn't it be great if, one day, and one day soon, very soon, the articles on Missouri and Kansas could and would be positive and for the people instead of what we've been getting for the last at least 10 years or so?
Wouldn't that be nice?
Link:
Read the fact sheets
Monday, September 4, 2017
Most Americans Don't Know the Origins of Labor Day
And we should. We should know how we got here in this country. We shouldn't and don't want to go backward.
The Pullman Strike of 1894 not only gave the US a national holiday, it also legitimized unionism and defined the modern labor movement
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