Posted on 09/05/2020 12:36:43 PM PDT by buckalfa
NEW YORK (AP) — Ahead of Labor Day, unions representing millions across several working-class sectors are threatening to authorize work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement amid calls for concrete measures that address racial injustice.
In a statement first shared with The Associated Press, labor leaders who represent teachers, autoworkers, truck drivers and clerical staff, among others, signaled a willingness Friday to escalate protest tactics to force local and federal lawmakers to take action on policing reform and systemic racism. They said the walkouts, if they were to move forward with them, would last for as long as needed.
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This is a wonderful thing. These strikes help the American people & employers identify & document the truly non essential workers.
No time left for bullies we have a Country to get back to full power.
Where is the property tax refund because these bums didn’t work for several months?
A partial truckers strike — not all truckers are Teamsters — would be problematic. Buy more food now!
PING!
Yet they keep voting for BLM and their allies...
FYI.
All Unions care about these days is the unemployment pay check...
The SEIU soyboy retards bunch is behind a lot of BLM crap
They should blame Fauci for losing their business but they really want universal income... nothing to do with keeping jobs wrt China or illegals
“Not postal workers though; illegal to strike (I am USPS emp. since 86)”
Utility workers are the same way. We can’t strike, and they (the company) can’t lock us out.
Thanks, and good. I hope they authorize a general strike, just so people get a GOOD LUCK at them and who they are.
So the destruction these pukes have caused across the country they are in favor of and support. FU union FU
“My union’s endorsements (APWU)
2016 Bernie, then Hillary
2020 Bernie, then Slow Joe”
The unions can endorse all they want, that doesn’t mean the rank and file support it.
We have two unions where I work (UA and USW) and we’re 90-95+% pro-Trump.
Unions have 10% of the work force....maybe. Fire them and hire Americans.
More likely, lack of orders. B737-Max is still grounded; problems recently reported in other Boeing jet airliners; domestic and international air travel down...what? 80 - 85%?; thousands of airliners out of service/in storage; etc., etc.
Being furloughed (with partial pay?) at least means the company wants to keep its trained workforce together until manufacturing picks up again. The question is: what happens when those three months are over?
Of course, there is always the 1984-style perpetual conventional world war option. That solves a lot of manufacturing and employment problems. Problem is all the key players now have nukes. So keeping it strictly conventional could be tricky.
< /sarcasm> Just in case someone is a little slow on the uptake.
thanks for the info.
This is what you call a bluff. Do it!
Buy more food now!
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Good advice. I already have.
Yes.Some cars in our parking lot (employees) have Trump stickers.
We can’t wear things like campaign buttons on the job due to the Hatch Act but one contract truck driver
shows up with a Trump shirt( not an employee) and talks about him.
It will be Teachers Union and SEIU.
The rest would rather be employed
Air Traffic Controllers—fired by Reagan.
Essential workers.
In 70 there was the U.S. Post Office
dept under control of President.
Nationwide strike—Nixon ordered Nat.
Guard to sort mail.
When settled the US Postal Service was
created—no strike but ability to
collectively bargain.
Unions:
American Postal Workers
Nat Assoc of Letter Carriers
MailHandlers Union
Small strike 1978, some
employers fired.
Libcom:
“After the strike was broken, 125 workers were fired, 130 were temporarily suspended, 2,500 received letters of warning, the union memberships did not ratify the proposed settlement, and an arbitrated contract settlement was imposed.
The 1978 wildcat strike was the largest strike of federal employees since the massive 1970 walkout of 173,000 postal workers during the creation of the USPS and the institution of federal employee collective bargaining. The 1978 Bulk wildcat strike was not surpassed in size among federal employees until 11,500 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) struck in August 1981.
Dave Cline was one of the Bulk workers who was fired and never got his job back. A vigorous three year amnesty campaign was successful in restoring many strikers to their jobs, but Dave was one of a few denied reinstatement because of his leadership role in the wildcat. Dave eventually got another job as a toll keeper for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) “
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