unions

Jessica Corbett
Apr 25, 2025

"Labor unions representing federal workers celebrated on Friday after a U.S. district judge blocked President Donald Trump's March executive order intended to strip the collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of government employees."

https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114388082077997579

https://www.byteseu.com/910348/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250409-argentina-braces-for-24-hour-strike-as-it-awaits-news-on-imf-loan

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28120218

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/114279540131463386

SEIU Launches $100,000 Ad Campaign & Holds 18 Rallies to Release Immigrant Activist (Payday Report, 2025-04-03)

"This week, SEIU launched a major six-figure ad campaign to demand the release of a Turkish national, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk, a member of SEIU 509, who had been involved in Palestinian protests

"Such a large ad buy by a union to protest the detention by #ICE of one union member is unprecedented. Not only did #SEIU buy the ads, but they organized 18 protests nationwide demanding her release."

"As immigrants are illegally deported and detained, more and more unions are stepping up to protest these detentions."

They get into the perverse ways that our pensions & 401(k)s work against our working class interests.

Steve’s guest is Michael McCarthy, author of ‘The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It.’ They explore McCarthy’s analysis of financialization as a deliberate class project to dismantle working-class power and exacerbate inequality.

They look at the historical shift from a robust Social Security system to a privatized, financialized pension system as well as the rise of neoliberal policies post-1970s, facilitated by monetary policy changes (anybody remember the gold standard?) The conversation goes into the failure of both traditional and direct democracies to serve the working class.

The episode also weaves through MMT perspectives and the impact of government policies. They touch on the potential of public banking and democratizing finance to empower the working class as well as the challenges of implementing these ideas.

Michael A. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His book Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor Movements Book Award. His most recent book is The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Mike has written for the Boston Review, The Guardian, Jacobin, Noema, and the Washington Post.

Wish they had done it when he was still there, but better late than never.

They haven't gotten it all figured out yet, but sounds like the Teamsters will be running things at least to start out with.

I come from a place where "Union" might as well have been a slap in your grandmother's face up until recently.

Quite frankly, it's the only thing that's happened in the past few years that's given me any real indication that things might be ok after all. I'm pretty excited for the guys.