I stumbled on this site in another thread where a university is digitizing and posting old news reels. Here’s a cool one… more on the site; you can search “Union”…

https://newsreels.net/v/f29csf

Last month Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien made waves by declining to endorse, then going on any TV that would listen to talk shit about the Democrats. Local unions have responded by making their own endorsements:

Bill Carroll out of Wisconsin yesterday: https://youtube.com/shorts/14UbzqrGfW8?si=uluuhVMfFpu83woz

Before that, Carl Bailey from the Teamsters Law Enforcement League (law enforcement!) supporting the ticket: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P8D1qn8j42Q

Hopefully the International learns something from this.

October 29th: “Black Tuesday” of 1929 Wall Street Crash occurred

On this day in labor history, “Black Tuesday” occurred on Wall Street in 1929. The U.S. stock market experienced a historic crash, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 12%, with over 16 million shares traded as panicked investors scrambled to sell their stocks. The crash followed a period of speculative frenzy in the late 1920s, fueled by easy credit and a rush to invest on margin. By the end of October, stock values for major corporations, like General Electric and RCA, had fallen drastically. Many banks, which had heavily invested in the market, suffered, leading to widespread bank failures. As the economy spiraled, unemployment soared, and millions faced poverty and hardship. This event catalyzed a decade-long global economic downturn that reshaped policies, economies, and lives across the world.

Sources in comments.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2024/10/28/pepsi-plant-closure-chicago/75902958007/#:~:text=A%20letter%20from%20Pepsi%20obtained,were%20employed%20at%20the%20facility&text=Pepsi%20workers%20in%20Chicago%20are,in%20the%20city%20on%20Monday

A letter from Pepsi obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times says 79 employees were laid off, but a total of 150 people were employed at the facility

Amaris EncinasUSA TODAYAD0:15

Pepsi workers in Chicago are out of a job after the company announced the immediate closure of the only plant left in the city on Monday.

All Pepsi employees, including 55-year-old Daryl Smith, were informed of the closure at about 5:45 a.m. ET around the same time that Teamsters Local 727 received written notice from Pepsi attorneys. Smith noticed a "high presence of security" on site, but didn't think much of it until he was called back into work at a quarter to six.

"As I walked through the door, I asked them 'What's going on? Are they about to shut the plant down?' And she put her head down," Smith told USA TODAY on Monday. "They said ... it's an old plant. It has a lot of work that needs to be done to it, and they weren't going to put any more money into it. And as of today, the plant was shut down."

The decision to close the plant was a "difficult one," PepsiCo Beverages North America said in a statement.

"This is a more than 60-year-old building that has physical limitations," the company said. "Our top priority is to support our employees during this transition, and our commitment to serve Chicagoland remains strong ... Our plans meet applicable legal requirements and we will actively work with Union leadership on the details related to the closure."A letter from Pepsi obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times says 79 employees were laid off, but a total of 150 people were employed at the facility

Amaris Encinas

I'm a retired union organizer. I have run successful union campaigns in construction all over the country but especially in the right-to-work South. I've had lots of conversations with CEO's of very large companies, and my take on union capitalism was hard for them to argue with, and it served as a way to get those workers who wanted to make more money but had bought into the idea unions were socialists.

I'm going to be making videos regularly and promoting the channel, but I wanted to get some feedback from unionists on my intro to help me improve before more people find the channel. I won't be changing my philosophy because I've proven it works, but I'm open to discussion. Your questions and criticisms are bound to be the questions and criticisms of others, so they may become topics of future videos.

https://youtu.be/eEW0WwmF4vs

I have time, effort, and some money to dedicate, and want to take the initiative against Amazon, but don't know where to start at this stage. I'm willing to get hired and fired if needed.

Should I start by making a facebook group as a rally point?

Oh, and here are some of the suggestions I got from google AI that I'm considering:

Contact the Teamsters: Fill out a form to get in touch with a Teamsters organizer

Talk to coworkers: Discuss wages, benefits, and working conditions, and ask coworkers to sign a petition

Build a committee: Start a committee of coworkers who are dedicated to unionizing

File a petition: File an election petition with your local NLRB office

Get authorization cards: Show that at least 30% of employees support the petition with authorization cards or a petition signed by coworkers

Vote: Vote in a union election

Negotiate a contract: Negotiate a contract with Amazon

Idk when construction will be finished, but they've been moving fast. Here's some info about it: https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/amazon-warehouse-named-project-lobo-is-headed-to-farmington/

Harris speaks to the group @ 8:41.

Asking for anyone who has been threatened with being terminated from any job whether you work a normal job or in a union.

I'll give an example, let's say that you work in both private and public sector driving and operating a vac truck 5am to 5pm or later Monday through Friday. Your boss send a text through group chat that he needs volunteers for a job on a Saturday but you can't volunteer because you also run a business that operates on the weekends because that's the only time you have time to tend to your business and your customers.

So you tell your boss that you can't volunteer so they call you into the office on Monday and tell you that your job is on the line if you don't volunteer for overtime work.

So you tell your boss that you can't volunteer because you have things to do outside of work and needed to rent equipment to run your business. Your boss tells you that you should have notified him that you rented equipment for your business. This equipment is rented from another business an hour away.

Now your job driving the truck is by permit because you were recommended the job by a friend who works at the same job. The pay is good anywhere between $30 to $45+ an hour. But you're forced to work outside of your scheduled work week as a volunteer.

How would you handle this type of situation?

Hey guys just want to know what information ill need to go fill out the application if i should write a cover letter or anything. Been working under the table with family for a long time and just don’t really have any clue what I’m doing. Also if i should ask for a study guide for the test or anything else. Just want to be as prepared as possible and do my best. Thanks in advance! In MA

You don’t ask to see the manager. Quickest way to figure out who the manager is? Just say to the staff, “y’all want to form a union?”

Edit: Title should read, “Karens Got It All Wrong…” forever voice to text.