Alabama? Not surprised. That place is a dump. You want to do some illegal shit? You want kids to work in slaughterhouses? Just bribe AL officials. They’re all scumbags. And racist as fuck.
Mercedes knows what they’re doing. If they didn’t they wouldn’t have had the balls to put cheat devices on their diesel vehicles for years.
Mercedes-Benz’s aggressive anti-union campaign against U.S. autoworkers in Alabama is a clear human rights violation under the German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains
I was a bit skeptical about this but it seems the law does indeed include
the prohibition of disregarding the freedom of association, according to which
a) employees are free to form or join trade unions
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, who announced the group's endorsement of President Biden for reelection last week, explained why the union endorsed Mr. Biden, noting a "very clear difference" between him and former President Donald Trump.
"One of them, President Biden, has always been on the American worker and stood with the American worker and he proved that during this presidency," Fain told "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "For the first time in U.S. history, we had a sitting president join striking workers on the picket line."
for reference, this effort was announced 61 days ago and these 13 companies (Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Tesla, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Volkswagen, Mazda, Rivian, Lucid, and Volvo) employ about 150,000 people. this is a huge number of people committing on paper to unionization of their workplace
The agreement grants 25% in base wage increases through April 2028, and will cumulatively raise the top wage by over 30% to more than $40 an hour, and raise the starting wage by 68%, to over $28 an hour.
The lowest-paid workers at Ford will see a raise of more than 150% over the life of the agreement, with some workers receiving an immediate 85% increase immediately upon ratification.
The agreement reinstates major benefits lost during the Great Recession, including Cost-of-Living Allowances and a three-year Wage Progression, as well as killing divisive wage tiers in the union. It improves retirement for current retirees, those workers with pensions, and those who have 401(k) plans. It also includes a historic right to strike over plant closures, a first for the union.
Wait, they didn’t accept the pizza party and the ability to choose one piece of swag from bottom half of pages 45-47 from the company store catalog? Those ungrateful pricks. /s
Good for them. I’m really enjoying this new wave of strikes that are taking place.
Damn, those corpos are really stuck in a state of denial. Hate to break it to you, but rank and file workers are the ones who make the product you profit from.
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