Workers within the established unions must organize themselves on a class-struggle basis to oppose the misleadership of boss-linked officials.
The working class and the employer class hold no common interests.
Unions must break from the capitalist class political parties.
The struggle of the working class is an international struggle against a global capitalist class system of wage labor exploitation and requires international solidarity between workers of all nations to succeed in realizing its aims.
Building working-class strike power remains an indispensable and central pillar to advancing the independent interest of the working class in defense of wages, living standards, and in forcing greater political demands against the class of employers and their state.
Unions must break from timid subordination to the capitalist state’s legal-regulatory apparatus, that of the National Labor Relations Act and Taft-Hartley, which mandate recognition of employer rights, suppress sympathy strikes, and were historically used to purge unions of their most militant leaders.

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u/GB10031 — 1 month ago

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DC37 Rank and File Contract Campaign

Hi all,

I want to let you know about an effort of ordinary DC37 members to obtain a better contract after it expires in November.

This contract campaign is a grassroots effort of DC37 members across a large number of locals that have been organizing to fight for a better economic contract for our union. We have hundreds of members who are involved in this campaign. The “affordability crisis” is hitting workers in NYC especially hard, and we wanted to make sure that both the union and the city know how much we need a decent raise to keep up with the insane rents, the rising cost of gas and groceries, and the general increase in the cost of living. We do not believe that another round of 3% raises and a one-time signing bonus is going to cover the 25% increase in inflation since 2020, or the 6.6% that rents are rising every year in New York.

We are demanding:

- 6.5% annual raises

- $30 minimum wage for city workers

- Writing telework and compressed schedules into our contract

- Cutting wasteful and corrupt outsourcing to private companies

- Reforming civil service to ensure fair pay, promotional opportunities, and job security.

The first thing that we're asking of DC37 members is to fill out this survey to help us formulate our demands:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQcv-5O_p4QcFFYSD4KzyqWkcmzDB_JxtwYgZvvCMtqIhUwQ/viewform

You can learn more about our campaign and get more involved here:

https://www.worker.nyc/

Let me know if you have any questions!

Warm regards,

Thomas Hummel DC37 (Local 1321)

u/AdChance281 — 1 month ago