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"For the union makes us strong!"

About 58,000 Ford workers are getting profit-sharing checks of up to $10,400. Profit-sharing is one of the huge benefits negotiated by the @UAW. Temporary workers will also qualify for profit-sharing for the 1st time. That's the union difference. www.freep.com/story/money/...

Ford UAW employees get bigger profit-sharing checks for 2023 despite strikewww.freep.com Temporary Ford employees will be eligible for profit-sharing for the first time too, and the checks up are from $9,176 a year ago.

BREAKING: A judge has struck down Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package at Tesla after a shareholder challenged the outrageous amount as excessive. This ruling would massively reduce Musk’s wealth.

A Mississippi poultry plant is being fined $212,646 after a 16 year-old boy was caught in a machine and killed. Duvan Tomas Perez, an immigrant from Guatemala, died on July 14 on an evening shift at the Mar-Jac’s plant. news.bloomberglaw.com/safety/teena...

Teenage Mar-Jac Poultry Worker’s Death Leads to OSHA Penalty (1)news.bloomberglaw.com Mar-Jac MS LLC is facing federal health and safety citations and a $212,646 proposed fine in response to the July death of a 16-year-old Mississippi poultry plant worker, OSHA announced Tuesday.

BREAKING: An Indiana Republican has filed a bill that would allow kids as young as 14 to drop out and work on corporate farms during school hours. Kids would only need to complete 8th grade in order to work 40 hours a week as a farm laborer.

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Looks like this poor guy is in his finding out era

BREAKING: Danish dockworkers and truck drivers have stopped transporting Teslas bound for Sweden. Denmark’s biggest union joins Swedish workers in striking Tesla as anger at Musk's refusal to bargain spreads across Scandinavia. Workers in Norway could also take action soon.

Hawaii governor Josh Green wants 3,000 vacation rentals converted into housing for Maui wildfire survivors. He's warning landlords that he'll use emergency orders to turn short-term units into long-term housing if they aren't converted voluntarily. apnews.com/article/hawa...

Hawaii governor wants 3,000 vacation rentals converted to housing for Maui wildfire survivorsapnews.com Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says he he wants 3,000 condos and homes normally rented to Maui tourists converted to long-term housing for displaced wildfire survivors who are still living in hotels.

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Ismael's been a lettuce loader for almost 20 years. He shares, "My work is very hard. We work in different climates, cold, heat & rain. Thanks to farm workers, the country has food. We deserve to be treated as people, not just tools in the fields."

Rich guy discovers that workers aren’t motivated by making rich people richer.

BREAKING: Norway’s United Federation of Trade Unions says it will start blocking Teslas bound for Sweden unless Musk signs a collective bargaining agreement with the Swedish Industrial Workers’ Union. They will join workers in Denmark who have taken Sweden's Tesla strike international.

More and more of Pennsylvania's water systems are owned by for-profit companies. In 2016 the state passed a law that incentivizes towns to sell their water systems, and for-profit companies are buying. Now water bills are skyrocketing. Link: substack.perfectunion.us/p/after-wate....

After Water System Privatization, Consumers Get Hosedsubstack.perfectunion.us In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.

Tesla has been hit by the first strike in company history. Over 500 mechanics and technicians in Sweden won't touch a Tesla. No service, no repairs. And it could soon expand to no imports or exports, because Elon Musk refuses to sign collective agreements in any country.

BREAKING: The UAW has won a tentative agreement with GM. Six weeks ago the union launched a historic and creative strike. These disciplined walkouts and years of organizing have now led to huge tentative agreements covering 150,000 workers at all of America’s Big 3 automakers.

The UAW’s proposed contracts with the Big 3 automakers expire on April 30th, 2028. They have invited other unions to set the same expiration date in their contracts. The reason for this invitation is so that on May Day 2028 “we can begin to flex our collective muscles.”

BREAKING: The UAW has won a tentative agreement with General Motors. Six weeks ago the UAW launched a historic and creative strike. These disciplined walkouts and years of organizing have now led to huge tentative agreements covering 150,000 workers at America’s Big 3 automakers.

BREAKING: 4,000 workers who make Mack Trucks are on strike. These UAW union members voted down a tentative agreement, and have now walked off the job demanding a contract that meets their needs.

BREAKING: Over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente have launched the biggest strike in U.S. health care history. The union contract covering these vital health care workers has expired, so now they’re walking out for raises that keep up with inflation, and better patient care.

BREAKING: Disney VFX workers have voted unanimously to unionize with IATSE. They become the second ever VFX team to form a union. Marvel workers won their union just last month.

BREAKING: A judge has blocked Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub's attempt to prevent an a new NYC minimum wage for delivery drivers. Now, the $18/hr rate for 60,000 New York City delivery workers can move forward.

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Hard to imagine any "welfare queen" cost the public purse as much as this astonishingly entitled person: "a top library staffer estimated that a team of 11 people spent 40 hours per week on her challenges last school year." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

She challenges one school book a week. She says she’ll never stop.www.washingtonpost.com The majority of all school book challenges in the United States came from just 11 people. Meet Jennifer Petersen.

BREAKING: In a major win for labor, the NLRB just denied Disney’s attempt to narrow the number of VFX workers eligible to unionize. Production coordinators, managers, and supervisors are all eligible to join IATSE in the upcoming election ordered by the NLRB.

BREAKING: SAG-AFTRA has voted to authorize a strike against 10 of the biggest video game companies. An overwhelming 98% voted in favor of authorizing a strike. The union now has the authority to call a strike for video game voice actors.

BREAKING: California's Senate just passed a bill to extend unemployment benefits to workers who’ve been on strike for more than two weeks. This would cover the writers and actors picketing Hollywood studios, and thousands more. The bill now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

The Teamsters who haul cars for the big automakers have announced that they will stand in solidarity with UAW in the event of a strike. That means they won't deliver vehicles for Ford, General Motors, or Stellantis brands like Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, and Dodge.

Teamsters won't deliver Detroit 3 vehicles if UAW strikeswww.freep.com Teamsters Local 299 President Kevin Moore said, "I understand their struggles and their issues." Truck drivers will not cross a picket line.

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The Big 3 have reported a combined $21 billion in profits in the first half of 2023. They can afford to give autoworkers their fair share. inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-...

Autoworkers are Fighting for the Future of the Industryinthesetimes.com Stagnant pay and hazardous conditions have driven autoworkers at the Big Three to organize.

It appears that Ford has taken the page listing their plant locations off their website. The link now just leads to a 404 error. UAW could strike the automaker at midnight tonight.

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UNANIMOUS!! Workers are taking over baby let’s freaking go

BREAKING: Marvel VFX workers have just won a historic first union in the visual effects industry. The workers who power the biggest superhero movies on the planet voted unanimously to unionize with vfxunion. This is a major first step for the industry, and Disney is next.

BREAKING: The workers who power the MTV show ‘Ridiculousness’ have voted to unionize with WGA West. The vote was unanimous.