Rail Workers Union Wins 'Trailblazing' Paid Sick Leave
Deal With Norfolk Southern
"The BLET is currently working to secure similar sick leave agreements with the other Class 1 railroads," said the union's national president,"
A leading railroad workers' union this week struck a landmark deal with industry giant Norfolk Southern to provide more than 3,300 employees up to seven days of paid sick leave each year.
• „Union fordert von Habeck Konsequenzen aus dem Fall Graichen“
• „Union fordert Stopp von Habecks Heizungsgesetz“
• „Union fordert Offenlegung von Verhaltensregeln in Habecks Ministerium“ #Union#cdu#CSU#schwarwel
"Es ist dringend geboten, dass die Bundestagspräsidentin diesen Parteispenden-Skandal genau untersucht. Es wäre nicht das erste Mal, dass die #Union durch ihre Distanzlosigkeit zur Wirtschaft das Ansehen der Demokratie beschädigt", sagt @jankorte.
Ausgerechnet die #union macht wegen #korruption einen auf dicke Hose. Die Partei mit dem Kanzler, der nicht sagen wollte, von wo die Gelder kamen. Die Partei mit dem späteren Finanzminister, der Koffer voller Bargeld unklarer Herkunft persönlich transportiert hat. Die Partei mit der Flick-Affäre. Mit der Amigo-Affäre. Mit den Masken-Affären. Die wagen es, aus der #Graichen -Sache eine Kampagne für weiteres Klimaschädigen zu machen. Was für eine unglaubliche, kriminelle Bande von Arschlöchern!
Nach Entlassung von Graichen fordern Unionspolitiker Stopp des Heizungsgesetz
Nach der Entlassung von Staatssekretär Graichen fordern Unionspolitiker einen Stopp der von ihm verantworteten Novelle des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes. Das Gesetz gehe laut CDU-Bundesvorstandsmitglied Linnemann "völlig an der Realität vorbei".
#AtWill does not mean "they can fire you for any or no reason." It means that they can fire you for a lot of things, but firing you for engaging in a protected activity, being in a protected class, etc is still illegal.
#RightToWork has to do with #union security clauses. Nothing else. It doesn't affect your rights beyond that item. At all.
Please stop conceding defeat and encouraging others to concede before even starting.
Today in Labor History May 16, 1912: Studs Terkel was born, New York City. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book The Good War, a collection of oral histories from World War II. He was born to Russian-Jewish parents. He joined the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project. This provided him work in radio. He best known for his program, The Studs Terkel Program, which aired on WFMT, Chicago, from 1952-1997. Some of the people he interviewed on this show included: Bob Dylan, Big Bill Broonzy, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Luther King and Tennessee Williams.
Today in Labor History May 15, 1917: The Library Employees’ Union was founded in New York City. It was the first union of public library workers in the United States. One of their main goals was to elevate the low status of women library workers and their miserable salaries. Maud Malone (1873-1951) was a founding member of the union. She was also a militant suffragist and an infamous heckler at presidential campaign speeches.
➡ Der Strom wurde billiger.
➡ Atomstrom bis Ende des Jahres ersetzt.
➡ Keine Renaissance der Kohle, es wurde sogar weniger verbrannt/stromt
➡ Versorgungssicherheit hergestellt
@pallenberg wie steht denn jetzt die #union da?! Sind das etwa alles Dampfplauderer und Angstmacher, die ausschließlich für ihr Sponsorennetzwerk argumentieren? Das wäre ja tragisch. (Sry, kann mir eine gewisse Art von Schadenfreude nicht verkneifen)
and of course given all of the discussion about dot social being too big, a reminder that if you're a #Union or union-adjacent person, or just want a chill relatively leftist worker-focused instance and you want to come over here, #UnionPlace would be happy to have you migrate over here, and just make sure to answer the registration questions!
Here Justine Bateman’s thread lays out a case for why AI in entertainment must be addressed now, protections created or writers, actors and directors may not have a profession or career at all very soon. Writers Guild (WGA), SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) are fighting for our professions to exist at all.
Screenshot of tweets by @JustineBateman • 2h Your digital image can be triple and quadruple booked, so that bodes well for a 10 percenter. 4/ 2. Films customized for a viewer, based on their viewing history, which has been collected for many years. Actors will have the option to have their image "bought out" to be used in anything at all. 5/ 3. Films "ordered up" by the viewer. For example, " want a film about a panda and a unicorn who save the world in a rocket ship. And put Bill Murray in it." 6/ 4. Viewers getting digitally scanned themselves, and paying extra to have themselves inserted in these custom films. 7/
Screenshot of tweets by @JustineBateman 5. Licensing deals made with studios so that viewers can order up older films like STAR WARS and put their face on Luke Skywalker's body and their ex-wife's face on Darth Vader's body, etc. 8/ 6. Training an Al program on an older hits TV series, and creating an additional season. FAMILY TIES, for example, has 167 episodes. An Al program could easily be trained on this, and create an eighth season. We only shot seven. 9/ Al has to be addressed now or never. I believe this is the last time any labor action will be effective in our business. If we don't make strong rules now, they simply won't notice if we strike in three years, because at that point they won't need us. 10/end Addendum: Actors, you must have iron-clad protection against the Al use of your image and voice in the SAG MBA or your profession is finished. Demand it from @sagaftra and do not accept any AMPTP proposal that does not have it.
A good interview with David Simon about the writer's strike.
I have the perception that people who don't work in the media business sometimes think that people who do are overpaid & not necessarily the most deserving of better working conditions. But truthfully it's just a few people at the very top who get paid well, like in any other field.
I've been a member of IATSE Local 700 Editors Guild since 1985 & I gotta say: unions matter!
Ist das eigentlich noch die #CDU oder schon die #AfD und #GOP? Seitdem #Merkel weg ist, hat man das Gefühlt, dass in der #Union nur noch Rassisten, Lügner und Betrüger gibt.
#korea "prosecutors unveiled full charges against trade #union leaders accused of spying for North Korea on Thursday, describing a “movie-like” scheme that allegedly featured secretive meetings with DPRK operatives abroad and encrypted communications in YouTube comments sections."
Movie-like as in creative work of fiction?
Or movie-like as in Spy Nation (2016), detailing how NIS concocts #DPRK plots for domestic political purposes?
Today in Labor History May 9, 1972: Four thousand garment workers, mostly Hispanic, struck for union recognition at the Farah Manufacturing Co. in El Paso, Texas.
Today in Labor History May 9, 1934: Longshoremen began a strike for a union hiring hall and union recognition, ultimately leading to the San Francisco general strike. After World War One, West Coast longshore workers were poorly organized or represented by company unions. The IWW had tried to organize them and had some successes, like in San Pedro, in 1922, but they were ultimately crushed by injunctions, imprisonment, deportation and vigilante violence. While longshoremen lacked a well-organized union, they retained a syndicalist sentiment and militancy. Many Wobblies were still working the docks. On May 9, 1934, longshoremen walked off the job at ports up and down the West Coast, soon to be followed by sailors. Goons shot at strikers in San Pedro. There was also violence in Oakland and San Francisco. Street battles between the cops and strikers continued in San Francisco, heating up on July 3. Things came to a head on Bloody Thursday, July 5, when police shot 3 workers (two of them died). The attack led to a four-day general strike that effectively shut down commerce in San Francisco, despite police violence and attempts to weaken it by national unions.
The people who own our ever-conglomerating media companies are a little afraid of the #WGAStrike succeeding. It will cost them some money they'd rather not spend. But what should really worry them is what it can inspire. A system where every writer, illustrator, animator - every creative worker who builds what they sell - knows their own worth and demands it. That's the real threat to their business model, and every successful strike plants that seed in a thousand minds.