Labor/Workers movements thread

[BarcaDeac]

 

[Kory]

UAW!

 

[Buttermaker]

UAW has some reasonable demands given the current US auto makers’ profits. 4 day work week? Wouldn’t we all love that.

 

[Liquid Karma]

I mean, who wouldn't want a 32 hour work week with 40 hours of pay?

 

[bym051d]

And this is how the movement for us all to get it starts.

 

[deaconson]

And this is how the movement for us all to get it starts.

Right here on these ogboards ... will wonders ever cease? What a community. Making it work for everyone.

 

[MHBDemon]

My local UAW isn’t striking yet but apparently doing some kind of sabotage that i don’t fully understand. I think they leaked a fake list of striking plants and it fucked with operations. Solidarity!

 

[ImTheCaptain]

My local UAW isn’t striking yet but apparently doing some kind of sabotage that i don’t fully understand. I think they leaked a fake list of striking plants and it fucked with operations. Solidarity!

 

[PhDeac]

Good episode today of Adam Conover's podcast with members of Equity Strippers Noho about how they're the only union strip club in the country.



There are several other good ones about unions and labor issues.

 

[BarcaDeac]

 

[PhDeac]

Penniless, Barefoot David Zaslav Wanders L.A. Streets After Reaching Deal With WGA

LOS ANGELES—Meagerly rattling a tin cup at pedestrians rushing past him on Sunset Boulevard, the penniless and barefoot Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was seen wandering the L.A. streets Monday after reaching a tentative deal with the striking members of the Writers Guild of America...

www.theonion.com

 

[Biff Tannen]

Those writers need to give some of that money back, considering how bad the last season of Yellowstone was.

 

[MHBDemon]

Yellowstone was never good.

 

[deaconson]

but it's about cowboys and 'merica back when men were men and sheep were scared. It FEELS like that's gotta be good. Right?

(No idea, not watched it)

 

[Biff Tannen]

Yellowstone was never good.

Most TV isn't. But the last season of Yellowstone was worse than the previous seasons.

 

[DeacHead]

I've never been more on the side of workers in my life:

 

[Wakefan77]

$25 an hour to make fucking eggs and waffles?

 

[bym051d]

$25 an hour to make fucking eggs and waffles?

Prices rise, but the cost of labor should be flat?

 

[Wakefan77]

Prices rise, but the cost of labor should be flat?

No but $25 dollars an hour to work at Waffle House?

 

[birdman]

No but $25 dollars an hour to work at Waffle House?

I definitely would not take a job at Waffle House for that little money.