jonny (good kind)Dec 3, 2024

#UAW4811 - vote no on a tentative agreement that's a really embarassingly bad strategic blunder, accepting peanuts to align with the boss's schedule is weak dogshit. Voting down the TA is a vote for fighting to win

https://www.rnfdu.org/newsletter/issue-7-vote-no-on-the-tentative-agreement

TA Text, which rank and file has to provide since union leadership can't be bothered to put it up:
https://www.rnfdu.org/bargaining-2025/november-2024-tentative-agreement

#labor #CollectiveBargaining

Issue 7: Vote No on the Tentative Agreement! — Rank And File for a Democratic Union

We are ready to organize for a better contract in 2025; we reject the secret negotiations behind this TA; we refuse to delay the fight at the UC’s convenience; and most importantly, we refuse to bow to the UC’s relentless assault of austerity and retaliation, which harms our most vulnerable coworke

Rank And File for a Democratic Union
jonny (good kind)Nov 17, 2024
#UAW4811 is having our bargaining convention right now to decide what the grad workers are going for during CB, and im not sure what im allowed to share yet but holy shit is Roberts Rules an exclusionary clusterfuck used almost exclusively to mire dissent in procedure
jonny (good kind)Sep 28, 2024
Extremely embarrassing that its our local #UAW4811's admin caucus that's actively trying to undermine the entire #UAW reform movement. There's a lot more happening here than I can explain, but I have struggled to figure out what their motivations are aside from maintaining power and I am coming up empty.
jonny (good kind)Jul 16, 2024

We're starting a push for open bargaining in #UAW4811, ime it was a huge success to involve the whole Union and the public in bargaining - wondering if anyone has similar or other experience, or what kind of open bargaining rules your union has? We are asking for no closed door negotiations and no dropping bargaining demands without a vote

#Union #Unions #CollectiveBargaining #Labor

jonny (good kind)Jul 3, 2024

Our union and others are hosting a discussion with Palestinian trade union leaders in communications and health work. Next Tuesday, July 9th, 9am Pacific time. I have been told this is ok to share publicly, and you can register here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MF-m0LJMQTKvIzX8sJglvg#/registration

#UAW4811 #Union #LaborForPalestine #Palestine

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: War in Gaza - Voices of Palestinian Workers . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The National Labor Network for Ceasefire hosts a conversation with Palestinian trade union leaders. We’ll hear from representatives of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and the General Union of Transport and Communications Workers on their struggle to live, work, and organize under devastating conditions of war and military occupation. We will also hear a special message from the General Union of Health Services Workers in Gaza. In addition, Workers in Palestine (UK) will report on their work to support world-wide international labor efforts to promote a ceasefire and permanent peace in Gaza. This will be a unique opportunity for trade unionists in the United States and Palestine to communicate directly with one another. Join us as we build solidarity with our union siblings in Palestine, strengthen our call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and work to forge a path for peace for working people everywhere.

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jonny (good kind)Jun 9, 2024
Hard and easy to believe that UC decided to flagrantly violate state law and threaten the fundamental labor right to strike over unfair labor practices, an attack against all unions, to end the #UAW4811 strike rather than revoke suspensions and evictions for a few hundred of its brave and principled students.
jonny (good kind)Jun 7, 2024
Getting word that #UC has won their bid for a temporary restraining order against #UAW4811 to try and end the strike. Details completely unclear, hasnt been announced yet.
jonny (good kind)Jun 7, 2024
#UCLA, its managers, and its private security goons have made the completely normal decision to direct all delivery drivers to just try and run #UAW4811 members over if theyre in the way while picketing in crosswalks. Video compilation forthcoming
jonny (good kind)Jun 6, 2024
We got some news from a member of #Teamsters2010, the #UAW4811 rank and file picket at just one site is costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Delivery picketing works
jonny (good kind)Jun 6, 2024
found this old essay by ye olde #uaw4811 rank and file vs. elected leadership in the #AWDU, and i think that at least for ucla it can be said that it is different this time, and one of those ways is the increasing belief in the diversity of tactics and the ability to turn both stable modes of organizing into complementary rather than antagonistic ones, and it's my personal goal in the time i'm down here to work on the structural changes it would take to make that happen w.r.t. power sharing. an effectively structured union of 40k workers across all UCs would shake the heavens way more than it can right now, which is 'kinda surprisingly a lot but also still not as much as it should by a long shot' https://berkeleyjournal.org/2014/12/15/a-reality-check-for-social-movement-unionism/
A Reality Check for Social Movement Unionism | Berkeley Journal of Sociology