GM keeping thousands of jobs in the Kansas City metro and investing hundreds of millions in our community is undeniably great news for our region, for the women and men employed at Fairfax, and my friends at @UAW Local 31, many of whom are Kansas Citians. Glad to see it.
Solidarity request from Mercedes worker in Alabama: Management is handing these out in the morning meeting. “Can y’all help us out? Scan the QR code and flood them with pro-union questions, or just some bullshit. It would be much appreciated.” Make it go viral!
"We started signing [union] authorization cards Thanksgiving weekend, and it just stacked up quick," says Jeremy Kimbrell, who's worked for Mercedes for 24 years. "It was like workers were starving for it, and it took off." ow.ly/9TYE50Rap36#StandUpUAW#StandUpMercedes
Nurses at Fairfax are voting to join the UAW tomorrow! All local 31 members are encouraged to wear red in support of our fellow workers fighting for a seat at the table!
Union Membership Makes a Difference—The median union household has significantly more wealth—1.7X more—than the median nonunion household
For households of color, union membership makes a HUGE difference, increasing their median wealth between 167% & 228%
americanprogress.org/article/unions…
Here in Missouri, we make Toyota's engines run.
And we've got the scars to show it.
This job can break you down.
That's why we're standing up.
#StandUpUAW#StandUpToyota
“If this discussion could in any way lead to my being disciplined or terminated, or affect my personal working conditions, I respectfully request that my union representative be present. Without representation, I choose not to answer questions.”
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The @Royals need our support for their multibillion-dollar stadium development, but we won’t allow a corporate handout that leaves #MOworkers behind. We demand a #GoodJobCBA that advances economic and racial justice for the people who call #KansasCity home.
This means🧵
"From that night, I decided that women could form an emergency brigade and every time there was a threatened battle, we could make a difference."
—Genora Johnson Dollinger
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📸 @UMFlint#StandUpUAW
7 STEPS TO WIN YOUR UNION
Autoworkers everywhere are making big moves to win a better life on and off the job.
Jeremy Kimbrell, a Mercedes worker in Alabama, breaks down how to stand up and win your union.
#StandUpUAW
EXCLUSIVE: Alabama Governor Kay Ivey blasted the workers trying to join the @UAW. Ivey smeared Jeremy Kimbrell & his co-workers as “out-of-state special interest groups.” Read Kimbrell's organizing lessons from the frontlines of the union drive below. labornotes.org/2024/01/we-thr…
"Many of you may not know, (the UAW's) first sit-down strike wasn't in Flint, but a month prior to that strike. It was at a Fisher body plant near Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Dr. King."
UAW President Shawn Fain addresses those in attendance at today's Detroit MLK, Jr. event.
"The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the greatest labor leaders in our country’s history. . . the struggle for economic justice on and off the job was a core, undeniable part of his story and vision."
Read the op-ed by @ShawnFainUAW@detroitnews#StandUpUAW#MLK
The brand may be foreign, but the labor is American.
And American workers don't just roll over and take what we're given.
Mercedes workers in Alabama are ready to Stand Up.
And the whole working class is ready to stand with them.
#StandUpUAW#1u#UAW
Boeing adopted the Jack Welch model. Now the company, and its planes, are falling apart.
The notorious CEO of General Electric pioneered off-shoring jobs, using contractors, and dumping profits into stock buybacks.
This model is everywhere now. And it's wrecking companies.
"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
— The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers in the transportation-equipment manufacturing sector rose 4% in December, the largest monthly increase since 1996, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Friday.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
All eyes on Indianapolis as 1500 workers at Allison Transmission are ready to walk off in the first big strike of 2024.
We’ve given them record profits.
We’ve done everything they’ve asked us to do.
We have to stand up.
#StandUpUAW
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