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Strike against the University of California is on! 79% voted yes, with 19,780 voting!

This is structured as a "Stand Up Strike", in the vein as what was done with the recent auto strikes. Basically that means segments of the worker base are going to be called up to strike, with not everyone starting at once. In practical terms, that means one campuses are like, strike-ready, in terms of mobilizng people, they're getting activated. Likely UCLA and UCSD are going to be first, and rather fast to start. They experienced the big violence, and have the most momentum in strike organizing at the moment. But others are pretty ready too! Just doing some planning on the more like mundane part of planning, like local day to day stuff. Hopefully I'll get a chance to strike very soon.

There's around 50k workers in total, so a decent chunk didn't vote. To a degree that's expected though, as this was a fast turnaround event, and you're going to miss people either by not getting a chance to reach them, or them lacking interest. This was actually a very high turnout union election. And the bright side, the 'No' votes are probably all the dedicated Zionists and anti-labor types with enough energy to actually participate, with the larger population more like, open to being reached as things progress and it becomes more obvious that something is happening.

Sitting around in a department town hall, waiting for the strike vote to close. I wanna striiiiike.

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Oh yeah I certainly agree. It definitely matters a lot. I just don't the west has the industrial capacity currently to match that rate. Most of the arms were from deep, old, stockpiles, not fresh production. There'd need to be a pretty big reindustrialization push to get anywhere close.

While you might not agree with everything on our instance, the weekly news threads are pretty good at collating news and sources as things happen. It’s a decent thing to browse at least.

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A bigger reason is that their manpower is depleted from so many dead. Not to mention various defensive lines not getting built.

No, I'm saying it because the front line is collapsing as we speak. I'm not a Putin-stan lol. I'd be persecuted in Russia.

The war in Ukraine is lost.

Damn. Didn't realize Hamas had training camps in Ireland.

I don't think it makes the poster cool by any means, but it's an effective way to deal with chuds sealioning or concern trolling. Often their shitty arguments aren't worthy of being engaged, and you don't want them to have free momentum. Hence, harass them till they are either banned or quit.

Well, it's impossible to really tell now, but you can see some interesting patterns by looking at the voting pattern on our last contract. Contracts have to be approved by a majority of the membership to be put in place, and generally the votes are more perfunctory, with most people approving. Often times you see 90 percent approval. That was not the case in our last contract.

Due to truly terrible bargaining, the contract was deficient for a large amount of people. Cost of living varies quite a bit in California, though it's generally high. In some places it's really bad, to the point of homeless grad students, in the case of Santa Cruz. Surprise surprise, the bargaining team delivered a shit contract that didn't address people's needs fully. We and a lot of others tried to agitate for continuing and escalating the strike, because the leadership was being real shit at it. They still had all the levers of power though at that time, so it was difficult. They even hired a PR firm to push the vote through lol. Despite that, several campuses still very much voted No on the contract, and overall, the results are a rather terrible look for the UAW, for anyone that's clued in.

The vote is split in two here, as this was before the union was combined into one bigger one. The percent is that which voted Yes on the contract. The second grouping was generally a little bit better off on average than the first grouping, though it's complicated as students sometimes went back and forth between the two depending on the quarter.

It's a work in process. The union is kind of split into subsections for each campus, each with their own local stewards/leadership, and then there's some top level admin types lurking above. There are good people in union positions. It's not like a totally lost cause. It's just a lot easier to start at the local level and work up. There's been a good push into unfucking it, especially after our last strike, where the shitty people were obviously incompetent/corrupt.

Different campus also have different material conditions at times, which influences, well, a lot of stuff.