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Johnnie Kallas: We began the Labor Action Tracker in early 2021 because strike activity has been historically underreported in the country. We started this project to create a more comprehensive database of strikes across the country.
@ILRLaborAction @cornellilr
@ILRLaborAction @cornellilr
Johnnie Kallas: I think there has been an uptick in labor uprising since 2018, beginning with the teachers' strikes. Our strike data from 2021 is considerably smaller than what we saw in the 1970's, but conditions were different back then.
@ILRLaborAction @cornellilr
@ILRLaborAction @cornellilr
Johnnie Kallas: Workers are very frustrating with their jobs, but they're choosing a very individual way of dealing with it, and that's by quitting. [The Great Resignation]
@ILRLaborAction @cornellilr
@ILRLaborAction @cornellilr
Now that #Striketober has given way to #Strikesgiving, let's pause for a moment and be grateful that labor made 2021 the year that unions wised up to the self-immolating scam that is the two-tier contract. 1/ 
As Alexandra Bradbury writes for @labornotes, this year's most prominent labor actions fought against two-tier contracts, from the Teamsters to John Deere to Kaiser to Kellogg's to UPS.
labornotes.org/blogs/2021/11/… 2/
labornotes.org/blogs/2021/11/… 2/
What's a two-tier contract? Just what it sounds like: management offers the union concessions on its key demands, but only for current workers. Future workers get a worse deal. 3/
After decades of stagnating wages and diminishing pension and healthcare benefits — followed by a grueling 19 months working long hours during the COVID-19 pandemic — many American workers are fed up.
A small but growing number are organizing. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
A small but growing number are organizing. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Earlier this month, John Deere workers at 14 assembly plants joined more than 2,000 hospital employees striking in New York, along with 1,400 Kellogg workers in four states and 1,100 coal miners in Alabama.
📸: Armand Aviram latimes.com/world-nation/s…
📸: Armand Aviram latimes.com/world-nation/s…
But for all the #Striketober hype on social media, the number of U.S. workers channeling disgruntlement into collective action is relatively tiny: 24,000 workers have gone on strike in October. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Workers across the country are striking for fair contracts, safer working conditions, and dignity on the job. We're proud to stand with each one of them!
Here are some ways to show solidarity & learn more about our allies across labor on strike. #Striketober #1u (1/14)
Here are some ways to show solidarity & learn more about our allies across labor on strike. #Striketober #1u (1/14)
Solidarity with the 10,000 @UAW Workers on strike at @JohnDeere across the Midwest, CO and GA.
Share or donate to their strike fund: gofundme.com/f/support-john… [2/14]
Share or donate to their strike fund: gofundme.com/f/support-john… [2/14]
Solidarity with the 1,400 @BCTGM Production Workers on strike at @KelloggsUS’s in TN, PA, NE and MI.
From petitions and social media to picket lines and strike funds, there are lots of ways you can support the #KellogStrike!
bctgm.org/2021/10/08/5-w… [3/14]
From petitions and social media to picket lines and strike funds, there are lots of ways you can support the #KellogStrike!
bctgm.org/2021/10/08/5-w… [3/14]
Alex N. Press: There is a mobilization that's been planned--I hope it's wildly successful. If we're going back to militant workplaces, I think we should go back to communities fighting for the workers.
@alexnpress #Striketober #1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes
@alexnpress #Striketober #1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes
Alex N. Press: You and I were on the side of Labor before it got big. The strikes we're seeing are not all in the same sector, which is good--it's a broad feeling among workers. @IATSE, possibly Kaiser Permanente, more.
@alexnpress #Striketober #1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes
@alexnpress #Striketober #1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes
Alex N. Press: Everyone's wages on average have gone up a little since last year. Think about what that actually means. Amazon has been on a hiring spree--people are leaving low-paying jobs to go to Amazon, but Amazon jobs still suck.
@alexnpress #Striketober #1u #UnionStrong
@alexnpress #Striketober #1u #UnionStrong
The 10,000 workers striking @JohnDeere represent the tension between Stein's Law ("trends that can't continue won't") and Keynes's "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
Deere has been a cursed hot mess for years, but somehow trundled on.
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Deere has been a cursed hot mess for years, but somehow trundled on.
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Until it stopped.
From Deere's management's perspective, this must come as a hell of a shock. They've relentlessly hollowed out their company, shafted their workers, and screwed farmers and the profits just kept piling up. What's not to love?
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From Deere's management's perspective, this must come as a hell of a shock. They've relentlessly hollowed out their company, shafted their workers, and screwed farmers and the profits just kept piling up. What's not to love?
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The reality is that Deere was accumulating the kinds of non-monetary debts that mount in secret and default in public - like slowly eroding foundations beneath a glass-and-steel office tower that rot in secret until the whole thing pitches over.
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So I ask myself, way past my bedtime: how many strikes and worker confrontations are going on this #Striketober, and will we see #Strikevember?
In no particular order... All the strikes I could find
(before dozing add moar!)
In no particular order... All the strikes I could find
(before dozing add moar!)
1. NY Taxi Workers holding strong for nearly a month.
2. Therapists are on the brink in Northern California and Hawaii.
Folks, with all the talk about inflation, the chickens that the Pandemic has TRULY created are about to come home to roost as we're about to potentially see the most Industrial Actions/Strikes happening all at once in quite a long time.
#Striketober is about to get HOT & SPICY.
#Striketober is about to get HOT & SPICY.
Already striking are:
-2,243 Buffalo-area Hospital workers of CWA Local 1133
-1,400 BCTGM-aligned workers at 4 Kellogg's plants
-1,100 UMWA-aligned coal miners in Alabama
About 4,500 workers.
That number could soon balloon to over 100K on some kind of picket line.
#Striketober
-2,243 Buffalo-area Hospital workers of CWA Local 1133
-1,400 BCTGM-aligned workers at 4 Kellogg's plants
-1,100 UMWA-aligned coal miners in Alabama
About 4,500 workers.
That number could soon balloon to over 100K on some kind of picket line.
#Striketober
At Midnight tonight, over 10K UAW-aligned workers at John Deere will walk off.
This after a tentative agreement UAW reached with John Deere was rejected by 90% of the workers.
And of course, IATSE's 60,000 may walk off the job come 3A Eastern/Midnight Pacific Monday.
#Striketober
This after a tentative agreement UAW reached with John Deere was rejected by 90% of the workers.
And of course, IATSE's 60,000 may walk off the job come 3A Eastern/Midnight Pacific Monday.
#Striketober
Context for understanding rising quits.
Corporate profits are through the roof and have been rising extremely quickly.
Employers unwilling to share the value that their workers help create are getting push back & attrition as workers move towards employers who do.
Corporate profits are through the roof and have been rising extremely quickly.
Employers unwilling to share the value that their workers help create are getting push back & attrition as workers move towards employers who do.
Switchers are getting faster growth than stayers.
This measures wage growth trends within the same worker over time, reducing issues with changes in who is employed.
This measures wage growth trends within the same worker over time, reducing issues with changes in who is employed.
There's been some acceleration in wage growth, but nothing like the acceleration in profit growth.
