Listen to @WWMalf president Jeff Jones interviewed by Josh Landes 🧙‍♂️ about our delegate body voting unanimously to endorse the letter from UAW 杏 @IUPAT NEA SEIU @AFA_CWA @UEUnion to President Biden calling for a weapons embargo of Israel: tinyurl.com/bdhybn58

Inbox: UAW members at Cornell University ratify contract.

Please help restore my faith in movies. Send me a recommendation to watch on streaming channels. I don’t have the time to watch a series. But I can watch a movie: a thriller, a romance, a drama, an action flick, truly anything with a pulse on life’s enigmas and tensions.

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Distributed organizing is a crucial tool for organizing millions of new workers into unions — and Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is showing how this can be done My latest article explains EWOC's growth and what it can teach the whole labor movement newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2024/08/30/the…

Many young men back Donald Trump. His tough talk makes many men feel good, but talk is cheap. It won’t help you pay the rent, afford college or raise a family The truth is Kamala Harris will do far more to help America’s young men & women than Trump will theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

.Adam DK King interviewed Larry Savage and Stephanie Ross about their new book at UBC Press, which traces the transformation of the CAW from a union with a class-based social democratic outlook to one in which a transactional approach to politics dominates readthemaple.com/canadian-autow…

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NEW: Since May, dozens of UPS workers in a Queens facility have been forced to work nonconsecutive 4+ hour shifts. Workers say they don't have time to sleep or see their families and some now sleep inside the warehouse or in their cars between shifts. thechiefleader.com/detail.html?su…

a time was had—such a rich talk with Matthew Sitman 🥥🌴🇺🇸 and Sam Adler-Bell. check it out and then check out the book! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690565/g…

Great news!

So the "Venezuelan gangs taking over Colorado apartment buildings" story appears to have been fabricated by a slumlord trying to wiggle out of building court, with the help of a crisis PR agency specializing in "cancel culture." Can't make this stuff up.

1,000 Tennessee EV battery workers at the General Motors joint venture Ultium Cells just unionized, UAW announces. GM agreed to recognize union once majority signed up and did not threaten or interfere, union says, per earlier agreement (bloomberg.com/news/features/…)

This is a good reminder that employers don't have to oppose union drives or force NLRB elections. They can simply let workers organize and recognize the union if a majority sign cards. An option that is always available!

Breaking: Costco’s head honcho accuses the Teamsters of “misinformation” and “bluster” saying, in a letter, the company won’t allow that naughty talk to go “unchecked.” Workers demand Ron Vachris sit down and bargain a contract.

“With more of the company’s production shifting to the South, he said U.S. Steel would likely look to move its headquarters to the region as well.” wsj.com/business/u-s-s…

Proud to be part of a historic UAW delegation to Wolfsburg, Germany to prepare for first contract bargaining in Tennessee & stand shoulder-to-shoulder with tens-of-thousands of German autoworkers protesting VW management’s disastrous proposal to close plants in Deutschland.

It’s better in a union…

“Spain’s El País ventures into the world’s fifth-largest Spanish-speaking country: the United States.” That’s an interesting development. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

The Rings of Power sucks. For all the world building, I can’t subject myself to the plodding pace, much less root for any of the characters. The are too many superficial story lines, which take the viewer out of the dream world of the narrative.