UAW Union Activist turns up for No Kings last Saturday

#photo #photography #nokings #protest #union #uaw #politics #ithaca #ithacacommons

USC-AAUP supports our non-tenure-track faculty colleagues' right to unionize! (Statement here if you scroll down past the top)

https://www.uscaaup.org/

#Academia #unions #UAW #HigheredWorkersUnite #USC #AAUP #USCAAUP #HigherEd

Contract faculty at NYU reach tentative agreement on contract

New York, NY – On March 23, the Contract Faculty Union at NYU (CFU-UAW) called a strike at 11 a.m. after contract negotiations failed to advance by the strike deadline. Over 200 faculty, students and community members convened at the John A. Paulson Center to picket in response to the strike call. Several classes were cancelled, which created a massive disruption amongst the university community.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/contract-faculty-at-nyu-reach-tentative-agreement-on-contract

OpEd - No, I'm Not Going to #NoKings This Time
And neither should you

A Declining Democracy
Mar 18, 2026

Excerpt: "What does toppling the #oligarchy mean? It means boycotting the media, goods, and services they use to extract wealth from the rest of us. (See the #TeslaTakedown as a great example.) It means #activism to get state legislatures to enact #WealthTaxes. It means lobbying state legislatures to increase income taxes on the top 10% of earners. It means electing Governors and Mayors who adopt a #Mamdani / #AOC-like platform to alleviate the financial burdens of average workers/citizens. It means rejecting corporate centrism and any of their candidates, local or federal, who accepts money from PACs, particularly those that have effectively paralyzed representatives from voting against Israel or the NRA. It also means creating the networks that protect the most vulnerable: the undocumented, women who are being persecuted for exercising bodily autonomy or receiving life-saving medical care, and anyone, frankly, who isn’t white or Christian.

"So, where does one start? First, send an email to the No Kings organizers at [email protected] and explain why you won’t be joining this time or at any time in the future until they adopt a strategy with teeth:

- Protests must occur on weekdays and for multiple days at a time and to call it a #GeneralStrike.

- To use their clout to call for union leaders to have their union membership strike in solidarity.

- To call for their sponsors to contribute to a strike fund for non-union, hourly wage participants, offsetting the financial burden of participating in these actions.

- To have specific demands for our government:

* Remove and Prosecute Trump for his criminality, particularly as it relates to the sex-trafficking and rape of minors

* Abolish ICE

* Audit the 2024 election, restore voting systems where breaches have occurred, and implement federal voting rights statutes to ensure every voter is heard and every vote counted

* Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment across all 50 states, codifying women’s rights to vote, have equal pay, and access to reproductive health care.

* Adopt Medicare for All.

"Now, there is a #MayDay general strike being organized by the #UAW, but it’s being planned for 2028 which seems awfully far away and too late. I’m sure the idea was to do some union saber-rattling in the lead up to the 2028 Presidential election. However, the time to show some critical mass is right now, not two years from now, after heaven knows how much more crap this Administration will inflict or how much more suffering Americans will endure. No Kings has the numbers; why not just consolidate and do it sooner? "

Read more:
https://democracydecline.substack.com/p/no-im-not-going-to-no-kings-this

#NoKings3 #Resistance #USPol

Save the Date: 2026 Progress Banquet

On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the Maury County Democratic Party and the UAW Local 1853 CAP Committee will host the 2026 Progress Banquet. This is our annual fundraiser dinner.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and the event will start at 6 p.m. The main speakers this year will be candidates for office.

Single tickets are being

https://www.maurydems.org/event/save-the-date-2026-progress-banquet/

#2026 #CAP #fundraiser #HeritageDinner #ProgressBanquet #uaw

Save the Date: 2026 Progress Banquet

On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the Maury County Democratic Party and the UAW Local 1853 CAP Committee will host the 2026 Progress Banquet. This is our annual fundraiser dinner.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and the event will start at 6 p.m. The main speakers this year will be candidates for office.

Single tickets are being

https://www.maurydems.org/event/save-the-date-2026-progress-banquet/

#2026 #CAP #fundraiser #HeritageDinner #ProgressBanquet #uaw

Today in Labor History March 7, 1932: Over 3,000 people, led by the United Auto Workers, marched on the main Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Workers on the Ford Hunger March were demanding that laid off colleagues be rehired. They also demanded a slow-down of the assembly lines and an end to the evictions of unemployed workers from their homes. Marchers carried banners saying "Give Us Work," "We Want Bread Not Crumbs," and "Tax the Rich and Feed the Poor." During the protests, police opened fire with machine guns, killing 4 and injuring 60. A fifth worker died later from his wounds. The Unemployed Council (part of the Communist Party) also supported the march.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #union #communism #PoliceBrutality #massacre #uaw #ford #TaxTheRich #FeedThePoor