The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.

Today is an important day for solidarity. Fighting for labor rights for journalists makes us more capable of clearly and accurately covering threats to democracy like university administrators' and police's violent and disproportionate responses to student antiwar activism.

SCOOP: Mercedes has hired union-busting firm RNP Labor to hold captive-audience meetings. They are coercing workers who haven't been visibly pro-union to attend. Workers say union-busters ask in the meetings for a show of hands of who is voting yes or no. labornotes.org/2024/04/relay-…

Labor councils were cornerstones of the mass strikes that built our movement.

We can do it again. Join us and build a strike-ready movement for May 1, 2028. actionnetwork.org/forms/join-tog…

Coming soon, to a workplace near you. May 1, 2028.
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#StandUp #MayDay #Solidarity

Trying to get any statement/comment from The City University of New York on this and there's radio silence. Why?

🚨 URGENT ACTION ITEM: 🚨

If you are not at the encampment, we urge you to call and email the chancellor demanding amnesty for our students and faculty and call off the cops.

Email: [email protected]
Call: +16466649100

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UAW 4811 stands in solidarity with students and Student Workers of Columbia academic workers at Columbia where admin, along with politicians, have chosen to bring in heavily armed police instead of coming to an agreement. 48000 workers at UC are with you in the fight for justice in Palestine.

Arrests at City College as police attempt to clear sidewalk in front of college gates.

“Bralow instead thought it inopportune, saying that attacking Bezos might not sit well with the Intercept’s own billionaire donor, Pierre Omidyar, especially at a time when he was keeping the organization afloat.” kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resig…

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

NO BUSINESS AS USUAL

NO CLASS AS USUAL

HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS

SICK OUT TOMORROW
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DSA stands with the students at encampments being raided at City University of New York and Columbia. No one should be arrested, pepper sprayed, or beaten for protesting to end a genocide. We call on school administrators and elected officials to demand that the NYPD stand down.

ALL OUT FOR MAY DAY📢🇵🇸

🗓️Tomorrow, 5/1
⏰4PM
📍Foley Square

Minnesota’s new labor board votes for nearly $23.50 an hour minimum wage for nursing home workers minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/29/min… via Minnesota Reformer

Scene outside the occupied Hamilton Hall right now, while NYPD seems to be preparing to come into Columbia campus.

ICYMI: I'm beat, but I wanted to give readers a sense of what contributed to the UAW's victory at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant and what lessons workers can draw from it. Please restore my faith in people's interest reading in long articles. labornotes.org/2024/04/relay-…

NEW: What can auto workers at other German and Swedish plants learn from the UAW’s success in Chattanooga, Tennessee? And what new challenges await them in these next campaigns?labornotes.org/2024/04/relay-…

New: It’s time to form the equivalent of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee in the 1930s for auto and battery plants in the South. labornotes.org/2024/04/relay-…