I guess some Ivy kids are alright

Newton teachers have won through their "illegal" strike almost everything they bargained for.

4 yr contract

• Significantly increased salaries for all aides -with some increases totaling 50%

• Adjustments to salaries for increased cost of living

• Additional social workers at the elementary level

• Additional staff to reduce class sizes at the high school level

• Expanded parental leave (60 days, 45 paid)

• Guaranteed student admittance for non-resident school system staff

• Agreed-upon procedures for educators on directed growth plans

• Adjustments to funding of insurance benefits and healthcare structure

The union will pay the fines in full, all $600k + of them.

The win does come after 11 days of missed school and the Governor threatening binding arbitration. I wonder if she will try to get rid of the law making teacher strikes illegal after this.

Big fat L for kulak NIMBYs who earlier voted to keep taxes low and not raise pay for the teachers. They were caught pulling the ladder from under them. Tough.

In preparation for the presidential visit Thursday, UAW Region 1 headquarters in Warren, Michigan was transformed into a virtual bunker. The building was encircled by heavy-duty municipal dump trucks filled with road salt to protect the president from attack. Secret Service agents, Michigan state police and local cops from Warren and nearby Centerline blocked all streets leading to the UAW hall and kept protesters hundreds of feet away.

New Settlers chapter just dropped.

Banger lfg

I can relate, although I'm on the other side of the pharmacy getting my meds from them.

I agree that the problem with pharmacies has to do with the upper management and, ultimately, the companies themselves and how the people on the ground are treated.

Some prisoners work on the same plantation soil where slaves harvested cotton, tobacco and sugarcane more than 150 years ago, with some present-day images looking eerily similar to the past. In Louisiana, which has one of the country’s highest incarceration rates, men working on the “farm line” still stoop over crops stretching far into the distance.

In addition to tapping a cheap, reliable workforce, companies sometimes get tax credits and other financial incentives. Incarcerated workers also typically aren’t covered by the most basic protections, including workers’ compensation and federal safety standards. In many cases, they cannot file official complaints about poor working conditions.

For instance, the U.S. has blocked shipments of cotton coming from China, a top manufacturer of popular clothing brands, because it was produced by forced or prison labor. But crops harvested by U.S. prisoners have entered the supply chains of companies that export to China.

:reverse-uno:

Almost all of the country’s state and federal adult prisons have some sort of work program, employing around 800,000 people, the report said. It noted the vast majority of those jobs are connected to tasks like maintaining prisons, laundry or kitchen work, which typically pay a few cents an hour if anything at all. And the few who land the highest-paying state industry jobs may earn only a dollar an hour.

Altogether, labor tied specifically to goods and services produced through state prison industries brought in more than $2 billion in 2021, the ACLU report said. That includes everything from making mattresses to solar panels, but does not account for work-release and other programs run through local jails, detention and immigration centers and even drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities.

During the six-year period the AP examined, surplus raw milk from a Wisconsin prison dairy went to BelGioioso Cheese, which makes Polly-O string cheese and other products that land in grocery stores nationwide like Whole Foods. A California prison provided almonds to Minturn Nut Company, a major producer and exporter. And until 2022, Colorado was raising water buffalo for milk that was sold to giant mozzarella cheesemaker Leprino Foods, which supplies major pizza companies like Domino’s, Pizza Hut and Papa John’s.

Its a great and harrowing article from ap, have a read

linky to norton tweet

This is excerpts from a Progressive International Email

On 20 December 2023, President Javier Milei issued the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) #70/2023 — an unprecedented abuse of presidential powers to strip Argentina’s workers of their fundamental rights in the name of ‘anarcho-capitalism.’

The Decree administers a “shock” to the nation: it tears up rights, criminalizes strikes, and paves the way for privatization of national assets from telecommunications to public infrastructure.

Workers are fighting back. In early January, the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) scored an early legal victory when Argentina’s National Labor Chamber of Appeals suspended the decree’s worker provisions, citing their "repressive” and “punitive” nature.

But Milei’s and his allies refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer. Right now, they are preparing an appeal to the court’s judgment in order to force the Decree. "We will take all this first to the administrative litigation courts, and if we are unsuccessful, to the Supreme Court,” said Attorney General Rodolfo Barra.

That is why, on 24 January, the country’s leading trade unions have announced a general strike 

Illegal strikes? wins? baller

Destiny surprised me here, but I shouldn't be.

He's got... quite the reputation among leftist circles and, as I can see, rightly so, let's just say...

Do subscribe.

I like promoting small-time YouTubers.

A group of 84 workers at Amazon's warehouse in Palmdale, California, won voluntary recognition by Battle-Tested Strategies, a third-party delivery contractor, to be represented by the Teamsters.

Battle-Tested Strategies is one of the legions of third-party delivery firms contracted by Amazon to shuttle packages to shoppers' doorsteps.

"We want fair pay and safe jobs, to be able to provide food for our families," said Rajpal Singh, an Amazon delivery driver at the Palmdale facility, in a statement. "We want to know we will make it home to our families at night after delivering Amazon packages in the extreme heat. We organized with the Teamsters to change our working conditions for the better."

Amazon said in a statement that it had terminated Battle-Tested before Monday's union announcement, though it didn't say when the contract ended.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1575977

A well-done article. I never knew about this writer. More research should be done on him.

I should also check out his work sometime.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1575823

I would heartily recommend subscribing and leaving a comment per usual.

Good video.