‘Your Turn’: United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla::After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it’s seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.

    • @force
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      11 months ago

      Solodarity strikes are illegal in the US, the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act

      Truman vetoed it and railed against it hard, but of course a corrupt and fiercly communist-paranoid congress overrode his veto.

      • @NocturnalEngineer
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        1511 months ago

        Never knew it was illegal in the UK. Didn’t surprise me though to learn it was Margaret Thatcher who outlawed it again in the 80s.

      • @T00l_shed
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        1111 months ago

        Man fuck Taft. All my homies hate Taft.

      • TheSaneWriter
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        1011 months ago

        Repealing that act should be one of the largest priorities of leftists in the United States. I wish people talked about it more.

      • @[email protected]
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        911 months ago

        When you make your next union contract, get the expiry date the contract to be May Day. If everybody’s contracts expire on the same day, it’s easier to have a general strike day in the future.

      • @[email protected]
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        811 months ago

        This might be a stupid question, but how does this law apply to non-union laborers looking to unionize, but aren’t technically union yet?

        • @T00l_shed
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          411 months ago

          In a right to work state, you’d get shit canned.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      1111 months ago

      Now if only they had the same support that unions do in Sweden

      More people believe in unions than you may realize.

      Don’t just focus in on the shills/bots and what they’re saying.