Thanks for that, Ned. Great background on their strategies.
O’Brien didn’t face similar opposition today from hostile local officers. “We’ve taken different factions and coalitions, come together, under one vision, one voice,” he said when asked about the role TDU has played in the contract campaign. “I think it’s been effective, and it should be a template for the power of collaboration to effectuate change.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
UPS came dangerously close to putting itself on strikevg wording
― serving bundt (sic), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 08:09 (one year ago) link
Rather!
Good new piece here on the SAG/WGA front
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/the-system-is-quicksand-sag-and-wga-union-members-tell-all
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
Also, Wil Wheaton's IG post here is pretty sharp.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvFzWyCPiN8/?hl=en
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
Great post and he and spacemom are cuet.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
Good piece on the UPS tentative agreement here:https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/07/what-happened-to-the-big-ups-strike/
What would a historic victory have looked like? Well, among other demands, it would be ending two-tier wage structures between part-timers and full-timers, and installing air conditioning for all delivery vehicles now. The current TA, despite threats from O’Brien and Zuckerman to “pulverize” UPS, has the feel of being underwhelming. But, underwhelming in an era of growing threats to the livelihood and health of UPS Teamsters are actually major concessions.Given the historic moment of low unemployment, record profits, and public sympathy for UPS workers, it feels like a moment has been missed for real historic victories.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
And I’m seeing on social media some locals organizing for a “no” vote.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
https://deadline.com/2023/08/writers-strike-meeting-union-studios-no-new-talks-1235455349/amp/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/steven-soderbergh-interview-command-z-christopher-nolan-hollywood-strike-streaming-1234799431/amp/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna98755
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
From nbc dot com
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 12:13 (one year ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-08-10/wga-to-meet-with-amptp-friday-as-writers-strike-stretches-on
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
Skip ahead to about the 20 minute point
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tvs-top-5-podcast-chris-keyser-writers-strike-100-days-1235561162/amp/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 August 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
UPS contract approved:
https://teamster.org/2023/08/teamsters-ratify-historic-ups-contract/
Meantime word out of Duke that their grad workers have organized, pretty cool:
Live from our watch party, we are thrilled to join a historic wave of organizing #UnionsForAll in higher ed, and so excited for Duke grad workers. Today, we’ve formed the first recognized grad student union at a private university in the South, and 1 of the largest unions in NC! pic.twitter.com/ADWxqq9iPr— Duke Grad Union (@dukegradunion) August 22, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
Bandcamp United begins contract negotiations tomorrow!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CwTSiOsyPmx/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link
👍🏽
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:13 (one year ago) link
“People close to the studios who were not authorized to speak publicly also acknowledged the decision to make deal points public was designed to circumvent WGA leadership to spur writer-producers and legions of workers who are struggling financially to begin to apply pressure to WGA’s leadership to accept a deal.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-08-23/writers-strike-studios-wga-talks-amptp-actors-strike
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
UAW membership votes 97% for strike authorization in mid-September if needed
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/25/uaw-strike-vote-to-authorize.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
“A former senior studio executive called me from his car. “Everyone is feeling down on all sides,” he said. “It really does feel like the business is in a lot of upheaval. People are talking about how linear television is declining faster than anybody thought, which means that the twenty-two-episode scripted network show is becoming a rarer and rarer thing. And the six-to-eight-to-ten-episode series on a streamer—the economics of that turns out to be much harder for everybody. If you look at all the legacy studios, it seems like their profit margins are going down. And, obviously, talent—writers and directors and actors—are feeling like they’re getting squeezed.”
He went on, “So the mood is tough for everybody. There’s a lot of mistrust and animosity between the studios and the guilds. In the past, there has been more empathy across the aisles. Right now, it just feels like everybody’s sort of frustrated with everybody, almost like everybody’s fighting for a bigger piece of a shrinking pie.””
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/scenes-from-hollywoods-hot-labor-summer
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
lol the pie isn't shrinking dog
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
"it seems like their profit margins are going down"
*citation needed
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link
Today, @AmericanAir Flight Attendants returned a 99.47% ‘yes’ vote to authorize a #strike. Our 26,000+ Members have sent a clear message: we are ready to strike. #1u #SolidaritySummer pic.twitter.com/JwEnHcFzne— Association of Professional Flight Attendants (@APFAunity) August 30, 2023
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 August 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
salute
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 1 September 2023 07:09 (one year ago) link
Dang, a SECOND SAG strike
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-seeks-video-game-strike-approval-1235711251/amp/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 2 September 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
Happy Labor Day!
I enjoyed listening to this today:
https://www.wnyc.org/story/witness-history-labor-movement/
― budo jeru, Monday, 4 September 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Workers at Powells Books in Portland are holding a one-day strike rally Im heading downtown for
Alright, y’all, let’s do this! 🪧✊📣On Monday, September 4, workers at Powell’s Books will be going on a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike. This will be the first strike for Powell’s workers in 20 years! Come join us on the picket line!RSVP: https://t.co/G8UK7fYazR pic.twitter.com/Wy1PcfVGuM— ILWU Local 5 (@ILWULocal5) August 22, 2023
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 4 September 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
This is not a labor action but I would like to suggest several actions against this asshole. (Same dude who went viral for telling millennials to stop buying avocado toast.)
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude." https://t.co/lcX3CCxGuj pic.twitter.com/f9HK2YZRRE— Financial Review (@FinancialReview) September 12, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
there's a face in need of a fist
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
another Tim Heidecker persona?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/tuc-agrees-non-compliance-strategy-against-anti-strike-laws
Meeting at the Trades Union Congress’s annual meeting in Liverpool, delegates unanimously agreed to seek to resist the new law, which allows public sector employers to establish “minimum service levels” on strike days.“That’s what we have to do – that’s the message,” the RMT leader, Mick Lynch, told union activists at the conference. “We are a fighting union movement and we are going to turn this legislation over.”The motion says: “We have no choice but to build mass opposition to the minimum service levels laws, up to and including a strategy of non-compliance and non-cooperation to make them unworkable, including industrial action.”The Fire Brigades Union leader, Matt Wrack, described it as a “message of defiance” to the government, signalling that “this government’s nasty, authoritarian agenda will be vigorously opposed by the trade union movement”.
“That’s what we have to do – that’s the message,” the RMT leader, Mick Lynch, told union activists at the conference. “We are a fighting union movement and we are going to turn this legislation over.”
The motion says: “We have no choice but to build mass opposition to the minimum service levels laws, up to and including a strategy of non-compliance and non-cooperation to make them unworkable, including industrial action.”
The Fire Brigades Union leader, Matt Wrack, described it as a “message of defiance” to the government, signalling that “this government’s nasty, authoritarian agenda will be vigorously opposed by the trade union movement”.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
Worthwhile interview with Sam Gindin here about the UPS Teamster bargaining and its shortcomings
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 00:21 (one year ago) link
https://shows.acast.com/jacobin-radio/episodes/behind-the-news-cold-war-liberalism-ups-teamsters
Announcement via More Perfect Union:
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.
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
YES!!!!!!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
let's go
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/detroit-three-strike-deadline-nears-sides-remain-far-apart-2023-09-14/
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 September 2023 03:02 (one year ago) link
Bring it
It’s already broughten
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/business/auto-workers-strike/index.html
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 September 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
✊
― brimstead, Friday, 15 September 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
Hmmm
https://deadline.com/2023/09/authors-openai-lawsuit-john-grisham-george-rr-martin-1235551400/?fbclid=IwAR0M4ucuTIo2ajqI0TWxyjY_b2OOpN4IvenGukPPqluE64XtuimH32U2CB0
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 22:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/24/1200770450/writers-strike-ends
Tentative deal reached
― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Monday, 25 September 2023 02:41 (eleven months ago) link
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 25 September 2023 11:12 (eleven months ago) link
Back to work
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/26/business/wga-back-to-work/index.html
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 08:51 (eleven months ago) link
Another good thing!
https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/walt-disney-pictures-vfx-workers-unionize-1235730179/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
Also this!
Student Assistants are making history by forming a union with @CSUEU. This is the largest non-academic student worker campaign in U.S. history. Next stop, a UNION YES election. @CalState administration needs to accept PERB decision & let Student Assistants Vote! #CSUStudentsWork pic.twitter.com/JcYTz64v5I— CSUEU (@CSUEU) October 3, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 19:47 (eleven months ago) link
Looking good...
https://apnews.com/article/auto-workers-strike-general-motors-battery-plants-a6ad7d6b9c3f42c24f3c7dbe21f4b694
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2023 19:28 (eleven months ago) link
walgreens pharmacy workers (who are not yet unionized) have organized a walkout mostly on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/WalgreensStores/) and facebook afaict
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:52 (eleven months ago) link
some local labour action: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/public-sector-workers-quebec-canada-general-strike-common-front
― rob, Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:12 (eleven months ago) link
https://deadline.com/2023/10/levar-burton-drew-barrymore-national-book-awards-1235572952/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 13 October 2023 20:00 (eleven months ago) link
On we go
https://www.thewrap.com/why-sag-studio-talks-ended-fran-drescher/?fbclid=IwAR0sgKE4qvLo2P7Iz1M-FCGkzvJsZLUpgPp2IGybBxFF5rCXBlCPQPQlC_c
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 09:52 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.thewrap.com/studios-sag-strike-one-week-deadline/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:37 (ten months ago) link
yessss
https://archive.ph/2023.10.30-192803/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/uaw-strike-why-elon-musk-tesla-could-be-union-s-next-target
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 October 2023 21:01 (ten months ago) link