NEW: UAW President Shawn Fain's message to the entire union:
"As we have said consistently, both parties share blame for the 1-sided class war that corporate America has waged on our union, & on working-class Americans for decades.
"And we stand today where we stood last week."
The NLRB just ruled captive audience meetings are an unlawful violation of workers' right to organize.
*Now* is the time to form a union - some common barriers have been removed and it'll take time for the new administration to undo these rulings. Get in touch, get organized.
Today, the Board ruled that, going forward, an employer will violate the National Labor Relations Act by requiring employees to attend captive-audience meetings in which the employer expresses its views on unionization under threat of discipline/discharge. https://t.co/odKn4Ah341
Librarians and library worker colleagues could easily have been added to this list of jobs that have been targeted--smeared, harassed, maligned--in these cultural assaults. Arguably no other profession has been threatened with laws leading to fines and prison for doing their job!
W.E.B. Du Bois: "In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say..."
The U.S. is conducting one of the largest military exercises on earth in Korea at the same time as the DNC.
These war games, Ulchi Freedom Shield, rehearse the invasion of North Korea and include plans for nuclear war. U.S. “democracy” is just imperialism down to the bone
Thousands of workers at Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest chip maker and Korea’s biggest company, have launched an indefinite strike. Originally planned as a three-day action, the strike has extended indefinitely after management refused to engage in talks with the workers.
So far, over 6,540 members of the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), the largest union at Samsung Electronics, have participated in the strike. The union represents about 30,000 workers, or 24% of all Samsung employees. The union’s demands include a 5.6% basic pay raise for all members, a guaranteed day off on the union’s founding day, and compensation for economic losses due to the strike.
Despite Samsung’s claims that the strike has not impacted production, the union reports disruptions on chip lines and that some equipment is running slower.