We visited today with workers from Mental Health Partners who are voting to form Boulder’s newest union with @SEIUcolorado! I’m very happy to see these critical front-line workers get the workplace rights and protections they deserve. #unionstrong
A new unfair labor practice charge alleges that the environmental group plans to lay off half of the union’s bargaining committee, including an employee who is pregnant
Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.
Rutger Bregman:
Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
If you're a member of UAW 4811 (grad students, academic researchers, post-docs, etc in the University of California system). Reminder that votes on statewide and local reps are due by tonight 5 pm. You should have an email link to the ballot.
@jadugar63
Ooh. I didn't know that Aldi owns Trader Joe's.
A bunch of foreign automakers who set up shop in the US south, where unions have struggled to take hold, are about to reach the find out stage. Sean Fain's UAW is selling their 2023 successes and the southern workers are buying.
Today, the new minimum wage of $17.28 in my city of Bellingham, WA goes into effect.
Compared to some other cities in the US, this may sound high. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 (since 2009).
Unfortunately, experts have calculated Bellingham's "living wage" closer to $23.52 for an individual and $29.97 for a family of four with two working parents.
According to Redfin, "In March 2024, Bellingham home prices were up 12.2% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $685K."
Average rent for an apartment is $1,863, and average rent for a house is $2,891.
Whatcom County, where Bellingham is located, recorded a 27% jump in unhoused people in 2023 (the most recent data), the highest increase since the point in time survey began in 2008.
#Republicans appear committed to politically dying on a number of hills that time has passed by. Their commitment to gutting voting rolls and restricting #votingRights, their obsession with women’s reproductive abilities, and their hatred of #regulations and #democracy in the workplace are increasingly seen by average American voters as out-of-touch and out-of-date.
Daimler Truck Workers Reach Deal and Avert Threatened Strike in #NorthCarolina
The United Automobile Workers reached an agreement involving workers who make Freightliner trucks and Thomas Built buses. The deal comes as the union seeks to expand its membership in southern states. #UnionStrong#UAW
#Biden will land a major union endorsement Wednesday from North America’s Building Trades Unions, whose leaders say the president has his infrastructure bill largely to thank for it. #UnionStrong 💪🏼
"People recognize for the first time in a long time, on a mass scale, there's gotta be some changes and some of the power and stuff that's gone to the corporate world needs to come back to us little guys."
The writers of "Sesame Street" have authorized a strike if they don't reach a contract by tomorrow. Thirty-five WGA members are asking Sesame Workshop for industry standard raises, improvements to residuals and more. Picketing outside the New York City office could start as soon as next Wednesday. "Millions of parents and families around the world are going to have a lot of questions," WGA East President Lisa Takeuchi Cullen said. "They might ask why the bosses at Sesame Workshop are ignoring their company's own messages of kindness and fairness." Variety has the full story.
Update: The "Sesame Street" team reached a deal last Friday to avert a strike. It offers writers minimums for animation and new media programs, paid parental leave, protections against AI and new media residuals. "'S' truly is for Solidarity," the WGA Sesame Workshop Negotiating Committee said in a statement. Here's more from Variety.