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rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone to unions@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

AFA-CWA president Sara Nelson is calling for a general strike

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AFA-CWA president Sara Nelson is calling for a general strike

www.work-bites.com

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone to unions@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago
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Listen: ‘We Have Very Few Options But to Join Together to Organize for a General Strike’ — Work-Bites
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By Joe Maniscalco  Arguably the most potent and powerful figure in the labor movement today has just declared that American workers—no matter what you do or what sector you’re in—now have “very few options but to join together to organize for a general strike.”
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    If there was ever time in US history, it would be now

    • pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee
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      Shut the airports down!

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    Nelson made her comments following the Department of Homeland Security announcement on Friday that it is stripping Transportation Safety Administration [TSA] workers of their collective bargaining rights.

    Fill in the blank:

    They came for the trade unionists, and I ___ speak out.

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      Precisely. I’m 100% against the TSA as an agency, but I’ll still defend the workers and their collective bargaining rights.

  • 野麦さん@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Big talk. Let’s see some ground level unionizing first.

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      The AFA is currently running the largest certification election within transportation in American history.

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