Red Hat workers collective. We are organizing for fair working conditions.
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Today is the eighth day of the historical United Auto Workers strike. UAW members are fighting for fair labor compensation, benefits, and job security for automotive workers. Support and stand with the UAW in solidarity: https://uaw.org/standwithus/. Their fight is our shared fight for a fair and equitable society.
Check out their latest video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzdmxkbwY4
You can track all the ongoing strikes in the US with the Cornell ILR Labor Action Tracker. Sort by worker demands, industry, duration, and more: https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu
As of today, there are 24 ongoing strikes in 42 locations across the country.
A thread with some facts about mental health and well-being at work.
In 2022, Deloitte surveyed 2100 employees, managers, and C-Suite executives in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia as part of their Well-Being at Work Survey.
Some takeaways:
- one-third of employees struggle with mental health and well-being
- while executives are not exempt from mental health issues, they underestimate how much their employees are struggling
Today is Labor Day for our American colleagues, and it's a perfect occasion to discuss reasons for unionization.
Some facts:
Workers' productivity has steadily grown in the past 45 years, yet their pay hasn't kept up with this increase. The workers generate more profits each year, but these profits do not return to workers proportionally to their productivity levels.
Relevant read: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
#Unions #Unionize #UnionizeTech #LaborDay #WorkersRights #RedHat
The huge gap between rising incomes at the top and stagnating pay for the rest of us shows that workers are no longer benefiting from their rising productivity. Before 1979, worker pay and productivity grew in tandem. But since 1979, productivity has grown eight times faster than typical worker pay (hourly compensation of production/nonsupervisory workers).
When Red Hat was a smaller corporation, it was common to see the following quote — attributed to Mahatma Gandhi — used internally and in external marketing:
"First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win."
Interestingly, this quote didn't originate from Gandhi at all. It originated from Nicholas Klein, a trade union activist addressing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
Hi Fediverse! We're a collective of international workers at Red Hat organizing for fair working conditions.
We'll be using this platform to discuss a range of issues in our industry, strengthen solidarity between tech workers, and dispel myths when it comes to unionizing.
