Workers are still unionizing their workplaces so here is a shoutout to the nurses at the University Medical Center, a private hospital in New Orleans and the only level-one trauma center.
The nurses held a one-day strike, but had been bargaining with the hospital for eight months regarding workplace concerns, such as safety and more money.
There are about 600 nurses, considered the backbone of all hospitals, working at UMC. All of our unions should be giving them our support in any way that helps them succeed.
If the election doesn’t go blue, this type of worker protests could very well end if the election goes red.
This year with our president’s and vice president’s support of unions, there have been some big wins for labor. If we lose, the National Labor Relations Board will be eliminated and all states will become right to work states, which is the kiss of death to unions.
Today, twenty-seven states have right to work laws, which prohibits union contracts. Right to work is a new term for slave labor, as employees will have no work place protections, no pensions, healthcare, and could conceivably lead to the demise of Social Security.
In order to keep what we have and obtain what we, workers, want, such as minimum wage increase, healthcare for all, four-day work week, we have to keep the GOP out of office. Vote blue up and down the ballot.
If you know someone who wants to unionize their workplace, refer them to https://unionizecalifornia.org/ or https://calaborfed.org/
There are three phases of a general strike and unions must plan for one. Those three phases are: 1. general strike in an industry 2. general strike in a community 3. general national strike We need to move away from being on the defensive and move toward a good offensive. The American Federal of Labor (AFL) could not have held a general strike if it wanted to because they had thousands of different contracts that expired at different times of the year. This was done deliberately so that there is no consolidation of power for a general strike. Also, nowadays, there is no law agency that will support labor, except the National Labor Relations Board (NLBR), which has been under attack and in decline for years. This leaves the burden of change up to unions, and unless unions work together, little will change. We essentially have a combination of job trusts, which are not as strong as contracts, and the courts can break easily because the NLBR will be further weakened and essentially elim...
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