r/unionsolidarity

Found another mistake in the TA wage table. Effect 15 members. A total of 0.06 cents over 3 year contract. HR said , “we don’t have a deal then is what you’re saying… “. To me. I replied can we just change the number to 23.69 instead of 23.67? Another group of 5 employees are short a penny. 3 pennies over the contract life.

Companies like mentioned need to be held accountable, why do they hate unions? We make their jobs harder. Why is that? We’re union! Why do they intimidate, bully harass, violate your rights, terminate etc…? They do not care about anyone but profit for them and share holders. And when an area runs out of new hires because word is out around town the take local communities jobs to temp out of state workers.

Have an experience you want to share please share hear. Also wanting to start a petition to rid management firms like compAsshole chartwells from union work places. Regardless of your union affiliation, weather it’s SEIU or Afscme or teamsters or whatever we need to work together on this.

Hundreds of ILWU 10 longshore workers left their jobs shutting down ports in the Bay Area and joined the picket lines at the C&H Crockett owned sugar refinery owned by the Fanjul family. The Fanjul family control the sugar market in the US and have been using slave labor in both the Philippines and the Dominican Republic.

Strikers were joined by Filipino community activists who joined the picket line in the morning. Later in the day a scab hit picketers and the rank and file put pressure on the police to arrest the scab. There have been numerous hit and run by scabs going through the picket lines.

After the conflict today the company got a cease and desist order and are spending millions of dollars to bring in scabs to continue to run the operation and bust the union.

Workers also demanded that the the hatch of the Tai Herald sugar ship from the Negros Island in the Philippines be close and the scabs be removed who were moving the sugar cane from the Philippine island of Negros.

Workers also talked about why they were on the line and that the fight against scabs taking their jobs cannot be tolerated.

Federal safety agency issues final report into 2025 blast that killed 2 at Pennsylvania steel plant | GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service

TLDR at the bottom.

Context: least paid ER in my city, level 1 trauma, 80% floor staff is travel RNs, department is in the middle of a mass exit We have a union & I'm core staff, and we have safe harbor. They are using the excuse of "orientees are extra hands"

Trauma has frequently had 15:3, and we're lucky if we have a 50:2 for our lobby. We're in the middle of the eye of the storm situation where this is our lower census time of month and we're going to hit a HEAVY upswing with past trends of 90+ in the lobby holding well into the 30s for admits. Our quick turn area has frequently been used to 'stablize' resus patients who have the potential for a room vs going back to resus. Keep in mind we have ONE cardiac monitor for this area. Of course we've been breaching our protocol for patient treatment vs what our management wants. Recently we had someone die in our lobby and just a couple days ago and orientee who was being used as a functional floor staff medicated the wrong patient with a controlled substance because his preceptor was being used for THREE ROLES.

We've had several security/safety incidents including violent patients not getting wanded down and have weapons still on them. Random people have been getting into the department found wandering around some how getting into locked areas. Btw we also have a horrible issue staffing our security department.

What started all of this: Management sent out email threatening to write up and cut contracts if found eating at desk. Travel nurse sent an email asking how were supposed to cover each other for lunch when we are always well below crit staff levels. For my department full staff is 26 RN, 19 is crit and we've been frequently running at 13-15. Management didn't respond. About 3 wks later I sent out an email piggybacked on that reply all thread. An assault happened from a family member of a patient, they were not forced to leave, our staffing is getting worse and worse. My email has gotten me referred to as "The Margaret" on my unit. 3 pages of professional written STFU, show up and see how bad it is, staff us, we're unsafe and you're doing NOTHING.

Emergency department meeting set up following week. That meeting was filled with nothing but BS lies and all talk, no game "of course we support you". They clearly were trying to find small problems they could fix to shut this down. Of course our union reps were there. We're actively losing more travelers and we're expected to be at NEGATIVE 19 nurses by the end of September with no clear plan of action other than "'We're trying to hire people." I've also been told from multiple travelers that their recruiters are actively pushing them to not renew contracts and some have even cut early at their recommendation.

I've been sitting behind the scenes quietly. Collecting info and anonymous quotes from staff because of fear of retaliation. They even asked me to "spearhead" a shared governance since I was so "passionate". So they want me to come in for more hours while I'm picking up 2 on call shifts a week to help staff the floor? I CACKLED. Even our night charges are picking up insane OT on the floor to help, on top of taking assignments during their charge shifts.

A few weeks go by and a different travel nurse sends an email to the entire department continuing to point out just how bad our staffing is and how nothing is being done. She gets pulled into the office and told that her email is creating a divide between staff and management. (No one on nightshift even knows who our management is). Her husband files safe harbor paperwork (which states you must call it ASAP, but paperwork doesn't have to be turned in until before the end of your shift) they told him that it was inappropriate to file the paperwork since they had 'fixed' the problem. He had a 7:1 ratio in our locked psych unit, and the other nurse had a 6:1, the excuse was "it's fine you have an orientee" help didn't arrive until after 11am. He got told that this kind of behavior is that of nurses who are burned out. They both were threatened to have their contracts cut for newly found problems. So of course they're going to their company to find out their retaliation options.

The travelers who were willing to speak up, are now finding themselves in the office for minute infractions that have magically shown up.

I'm trying to tread EXTREMLY lightly here and play some 4d chess here.

TLDR: Extremely unsafe staffing conditions, retaliation for staff who speak up is happening behind the scenes by finding minute loopholes, major safety issues and mass turnover.

Has anyone else had to deal with this stuff? If so how did you go about it and what are steps you took? I have a few exit plans in place and are well out of the reach of my management so even if they try to black list me from the other hospitals in our area, it won't matter.

Cargill lockout in Fort Morgan, Colorado ends after 88 days as union approves new five-year contract | GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service

A worker at GM Flint Truck Assembly was severely injured after being hit by a forklift going in reverse on the third shift between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. on August 13. The worker’s name has not yet been released, but according to a worker at the plant contacted by the World Socialist Web Site she had just signed her retirement papers last week.

Many workers came to the injured worker’s aid. However, they were forced to keep the line moving after watching this horrendous accident even as the worker lay on the floor bleeding and waiting for paramedics and the ambulance to arrive to take her to Hurley Hospital in Flint. The injured worker has since been transferred to the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Would folks here like a rule against it? I'm not a mod or anything, but as an IRL labor organizer I see AI as the single biggest labor issue in the US right now, at least in terms of threats to workers. Plus big union busting companies own and operate most of the AI infrastructure we have.

NON UNION AUTO WORKERS STRIKE OVER FORCED OVERTIME AT MAZDA TOYOTA IN ALABAMA | GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service

LOTS of other workers are reporting UNPAID WAGES, WRONGFULLY DENIED PAY DISPUTES, SLOPPY MANAGEMENT, and SIGNIFICANT PLATFORM GLITCHES.

Warning: this company engages in time theft.

I have experienced this. HS owe me more than $2k and WRONGFULLY denied my dispute without giving any reason. Well… haha they said they used AI to deny my dispute… then they removed me from the project in blatant retaliation.

Has anyone else experienced this or successfully appealed a dispute decision? Does anyone want to BAND TOGETHER AND SUE? I dont want to work there anymore I just want my money for the work I did that they’re profiting from.

If you are already suing the bigots can I join in?