Tomorrow I will be participating in my first picket of my workplace/I have been assisting organizing.
Any advice to give on a picket going smoothly and ways to make it effective?
Thank you!
“We all should unite collectively. Do what we need to do to get done because that’s the only way it’s going to get done. And we collectively do it, you know, as a whole and stand on it and be consistent and mean it. You know, we move the city. The city don’t move us.”
The North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters endorses Platner.
Platner: “Power in society comes from two places, organized money or organized people and we all know that the money is organized and it has bought our political system.”
Workers at parts supplier Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan decisively voted down a second sellout tentative agreement Friday. According to United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 699, the contract went down by 73 percent to 27 percent. Production workers voted down the contract by a resounding 76 percent. Skilled trades workers also rejected the contract.
The contract rejection is a major victory for rank-and-file workers and represents a repudiation of the UAW bureaucracy that negotiated the sellout, which betrays the workers’ fundamental demands. The rejection took place in the face of fear-mongering and lies by local union officials, who falsely claimed that a strike would be “illegal” and suggested that workers could lose their jobs if they voted “no.”