ProLabor Relations Institute

A pro-union strategy firm deploying creative media strategy to invigorate rank & file unionism, win better contracts & beat the boss

[Amir Khafagy (amirkhafagy.bsky.social) @AmirKhafagy91]

Big Labor News 🚨

New OSHA Rules Empower Immigrant Workers

Immigrant workers can be issued visas if they are victims of wage theft, safety violations & other workplace abuses

Spread the word!

My latest for @Documentedny / @Report4America

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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

UPDATE: Union Pacific, one of the railroads that successfully fought off workers' demands for paid sick days, announced a record $7 billion profit. The company said it spent $1.7 billion more on stock buybacks in 2022 than on pay and benefits for all of its employees.

[Howard Brown Health Workers United @HBHWorkers]

OUR STRIKE SCHEDULE IS OUT! Community members: please show your support by coming to our strikes and donating to our strike solidarity fund https://t.co/XggJIW8m6q

[ProLabor Relations Institute @UnionBuilder]

Can anyone suggest any good texts on the formation of the CIO?

[National Labor Relations Board Union @TheNLRBU]

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“Accounting for both representation and ULP cases, the NLRB saw a 23 percent increase in cases from 2021, the largest single-year increase since FY1976 and the largest percentage increase since FY1959.”

Congress MUST increase our budget ASAP.

https://t.co/LdfP72RQch

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Ticketmaster is under investigation by the Justice Department for abusing its monopoly power over the live music industry, per The New York Times.

[La Colombe Workers Union @lcworkersunion]

We're unionizing!

[Jonah Furman @JonahFurman]

"Employees at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store in New Orleans [@LowesU_Nola] filed federal unfair labor practice charges yesterday with the NLRB. The charges accuse Lowe’s of an illegal campaign to intimidate workers into stopping efforts to unionize."

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: University of California grad student workers have launched the largest academic strike in U.S. history.

Workers tell us they can’t afford to eat, pay rent, or have kids.

The university has an endowment worth nearly $30 billion.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: 1,400 resident doctors are unionizing at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

Residents say that being offered garbage bags and Yankees ponchos as PPE during the pandemic was one of the motivating factors to begin organizing.

https://t.co/nAmPzJh8qA

[Jason T. Doering @jtdoering]

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen announced today that the union's members voted against ratification of the National Tentative Agreement reached on September 15. The BRS represents more than 6,000 members affected by the negotiations.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Chicago!

Class Struggle Unionism

Join us at @haymarkethouse for a conversation with Joe Burns about how workers can win the class war, hosted with @ueunion, @labornotes, @SEIU73, and @coreteachers

Saturday, October 29th at 6:00 pm CT

RSVP to attend: https://t.co/PO0PO3hBGb

[National Labor Relations Board Union @TheNLRBU]

The National Labor Relations Board—the sole federal agency tasked with enforcing private-sector employees' rights to organize and collectively bargain—is in a crisis. After years of inattention by Congress, the agency no longer has the resources to adequately enforce its mission.

[Jonah Furman @JonahFurman]

A fifth rail union ratifies an agreement.

(Note, SMART-MD is way smaller than and not to be confused with its counterpart SMART-TD, which was one of the last two holdout unions in September)

[ProLabor Relations Institute @UnionBuilder]

@BrandonMagner @matthewtbodie oh fuck yea

[Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited]

Over the next two weeks, we will be unveiling a set of CORE non-economic proposals after a process by which thousands of union Starbucks workers brainstormed, drafted, and revised the proposals.

The first one we are unveiling is… the Right to Organize!

[Jonah Furman @JonahFurman]

Absolutely massive. Thousands of grocery workers in Columbus, Ohio have authorized a strike after rejecting two consecutive tentative agreements.

If they walk, it’ll be their first strike in decades.

[Jonah Furman @JonahFurman]

Rail union members, I’m working on a story about the ratification process and possible next steps. Would love to hear what you know about voting timeline/process, cooling-off periods, and whether you’ve seen new TA language. Anonymous is fine, send me a message.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Starbucks just fired six union workers involved in a dramatic three-day strike that took place in South Carolina.

They were fired for cleaning their store after the strike ended.

Early last month, their manager filed a false police report accusing them of kidnapping.

[Fight For 15 Chicago @chifightfor15]

We’ll be there! 🤝

#UnionsForAll