AND MORE FUN FACTS: Union members make 18% more on average than non-union members and are 60% more likely to have health benefits and almost twice as likely to have retirement benefits.

#BlueCrew #Resist #SolidaritySummer

NBC News: A heavily armed and masked detail from Homeland Security and Border Patrol raided a Home Depot at Cypress Park, Los Angeles. They detained day laborers.

When your government spends tens of billions on dressing up like Army Special Forces to terrorize immigrant workers while they cut healthcare for 16 million people, it's time to get a new government.

Take action, stand up to ICE: https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/stand-up-to-ice-know-your-rights-day-of-action

#SolidaritySummer

United States: Unions mobilizing in defence of migrant workers - IUF

IUF
Detention without due process is kidnapping. #SolidaritySummer
Detention without due process is kidnapping. #SolidaritySummer
Workers are rallying nationwide to say: 🟣 We won’t be intimidated! 🟣 We won’t be silenced! 🟣 We won’t stop fighting! This is what solidarity looks like! #SolidaritySummer

🚨 On Friday, ICE agents in military gear raided LA. SEIU leader David Huerta was assaulted, hospitalized & is still in custody—for standing up for immigrant workers.

✊ Join the call: #FreeDavidEndRaids #SolidaritySummer

📍Find an event near you: bit.ly/FreeDavidEndRaids

Fight For A Union (@fightforaunion.bsky.social)

🚨 Auntie Lynn is free!! Watch the outpouring of love. 🥺 Lewelyn had been detained by ICE since February, despite the fact that she is a legal permanent resident. Her community and her brothers and sisters in labor rallied around her, and SHE GOT OUT! Now THAT'S solidarity. #UnionsForAll

Bluesky Social
UPS and Teamsters have reached an agreement, averting a strike (pending a vote by members). Sounds like the drivers got pretty much everything they were asking for: https://wapo.st/3Y8MAUX (gift link) #TeamstersStrike #UPSStrike #HotLaborSummer #SolidaritySummer
UPS, Teamsters reach agreement, averting strike

The five-year contract deal includes major pay increases for all UPS employees, including part-timers, the eradication of a lower-paid class of worker, and an agreement to install A/C units in delivery vans.

The Washington Post