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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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UAW strike Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs (www.npr.org)

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Union strategy: 13,000 autoworkers at the three Midwest plants, about 9% of the unionized workforce at the Big Three automakers, were the first to walk off the job. Now, more workers are temporarily out of work as the automakers are asking hundreds of non-striking workers not to show up to work.
Negotiation and demands: The UAW's call for a 40% pay increase is still intact as negotiations continue. Also on the docket are pensions, cost-of-living adjustments and quality-of-life improvements.
Reactions: President Biden urged automakers to share their profits with workers as the strike tested his bid to be the "most pro-labor" president. He is dispatching Julie Su, the acting labor secretary, and Gene Sperling, a White House senior adviser, to Detroit to help with negotiations.

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[–] bibliotectress@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

            
              There's an election coming up. 2) Even though he's Biden, he's still not a Republican, so there's a chance he'll possibly side with labor.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mm okay, thanks. Do you know why he was so staunchly against the rail workers?

[–] spamfajitas@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He wasn't so entirely against them as people might have made it seem.

Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave

https://web.archive.org/web/20230620220325/https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing this article, I didn't know about it and It provides context to help me understand the entire situation way better.

[–] bibliotectress@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money. Because they were striking in December right before the holidays, and people get mad about shipments and economic problems right before the holidays. Also, he's Biden, not Bernie Sanders. From Reuters:

A rail strike could have frozen almost 30% of U.S. cargo shipments by weight, stoked already surging inflation, cost the American economy as much as $2 billion a day, and stranded millions of rail passengers.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn thirty percent. Thank you. Wow.

Yeah, knowing what I knew about Biden, I have been shocked at how many of his presidential decisions and policies I've agreed with.

[–] gastationsushi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The media always frames it like it's the workers costing the economy, not the greedy mfers at the top.

[–] poprocks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure but guessing it's because the UAW has significantly more members?