I love old union songs because it's like this fucking asshole was a scab so we fucking threw him in the river and he broke his spine and when he went to heaven he was scabbing on the angels so they fired him down to heaven and the devil was like you have to work in hell for being a dirty scab

I'm not joking, this is an actual song

The modern Union could never make a song this good

Saying Casey Jones would've been a scab goes so hard actually I did not realize. Casey Jones came into American folk vernacular from a real engineer who tried to run a 75m late passenger train, solo, ON TIME, and then died himself but narrowly avoided killing his passengers when he hit a stopped train. He was celebrated for his heroism at the time, but really he was the kind of guy who valued being good at his job so highly that he made a series of poor choices to avoid disrupting orderly work, endangering his clients and harmfully shifting standards for other workers in the process. Comparing scab workers to him is a wicked cogent point tbh.

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This is pretty cool

I’m not a member but only because we never drafted the papers. I intend to be once I move into my next apartment because we’ll be there for more than a year hopefully.

Some nice games industry news for a change. Developers at Blizzard have formed a wall-to-wall union.

This is hot on the heels of developers at Bethesda doing the same.

https://iww.org/membership/

ACLU and the NLRB

general strike that is actually being organized

Join your local DSA and IWW

as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

unions do so much more than just strike. unions bargain. unions sit in at meetings with upper management. unions help people navigate benefits. unions coordinate aid drives for disabled members. my union ran a donations campaign for me for the interim between the end of my allotted paid leave and my disability claim

"unionize your workplace" means so much more than "talk to your coworkers about striking." you gotta actively know what a union is and what a union isn't before you can form one. calls to unionize should lead to more people learning their rights and learning how unions work, and coordinating with orgs like seiu and the teamsters and the aft (and if you don't know what those are, look them up).

My union found me a legal expert to help me check over my last redundancy settlement for free, provided private medical cover whilst I was unemployed, and negotiated a good deal on cheap insurance for their members. It is so much more than strikes.