NEW: Jane Slaughter filing from the field:

labornotes.org/blogs/2024/05/…

I'm voting 'Union YES!' to have a voice in deciding our future at Mercedes. May 13-17. ✅
#StandUpMercedes #StandUpUAW

🖊️Sign up for our 'Race and Labor' online workshop this month! This training will take place over two sessions — Thursday, May 23, and Thursday, May 30 (and we encourage you to attend both).

Details and registration here: labornotes.org/events/2024/ra…

Solidarity with workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama 🇺🇸 voting to join UAW from Brazilian 🇧🇷 GM workers 🫶
#StandUpUAW

HAPPENING NOW; Hundreds out at Orlando International Airport standing with AFA Frontier. Only turns doesn’t fly! Frontier Airlines management’s operational changes eliminate crew overnights, making it harder for them to earn a living. #1u

Also obviously Labor Notes' Luis Feliz Leon
alreporter.com/2024/05/15/mer…

Labor laws largely exclude #nannies . Some are banding together to protect themselves apnews.com/article/nannie… #domesticworkers Domestic Workers

Scoop: The UAW's Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118 grad student union has filed a US labor board case over Harvard's response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, claiming the school's retaliation violated students' right as employees to protest over workplace issues

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Stand Up, Amazon workers!

The high-speed logistics model used by retailers like Amazon puts more pressure on workers, but it also involves more points of connection that workers can target through 'collective decision-making and coordination.' Read Kim Moody's piece this month: labornotes.org/2024/05/end-le…

.Mobilization for Justice - 2% don’t pay the rent! 3% don’t pay the rent!

Fair raises now!

NEW: Tonight, 5 Starbucks stores across the country held union elections - & ALL 5 voted YES to UNIONIZE!🤩🎉

✊Salem, OR (Lancaster & Silverton)
✊Chanhassen, MN (Dakota Ave II)
✊Stratham, NH (Portsmouth Ave)
✊Tampa, FL (Dale Mabry & Linebaugh)
✊Davenport, IA (53rd & Elmore)

'Thousands of University of Washington teaching assistants went on strike Tuesday after their union and university officials failed to reach an agreement on future wage increases.'

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e…

“The systems that deprive workers here from better working conditions, from fair wages, and from equality, are the same that fund and prop up the Israeli occupation,” Taher Dahleh, CWA member and Palestinian Youth Movement organizer, told yung hegelian: labornotes.org/2024/05/unions…

The official IAMAW (railroad machinists) District 19 DOL rerun election results:
Congratulations to the new PDGC Reece Murtagh and New Secretary Treasurer Marty Rosato! We did it!! We defeated the status quo. One for the history books!!!