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'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla (www.vice.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla::After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it's seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Now if only they had the same support that unions do in Sweden

[–] force@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Solodarity strikes are illegal in the US, the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act

Truman vetoed it and railed against it hard, but of course a corrupt and fiercly communist-paranoid congress overrode his veto.

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Never knew it was illegal in the UK. Didn't surprise me though to learn it was Margaret Thatcher who outlawed it again in the 80s.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Man fuck Taft. All my homies hate Taft.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 10 points 11 months ago

Repealing that act should be one of the largest priorities of leftists in the United States. I wish people talked about it more.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 9 points 11 months ago

When you make your next union contract, get the expiry date the contract to be May Day. If everybody's contracts expire on the same day, it's easier to have a general strike day in the future.

[–] circasurvivor@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This might be a stupid question, but how does this law apply to non-union laborers looking to unionize, but aren't technically union yet?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

In a right to work state, you'd get shit canned.

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck em. How much illegal shit have megacorps gotten away with?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago

Everything they could, every moment of their existence.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Now if only they had the same support that unions do in Sweden

More people believe in unions than you may realize.

Don't just focus in on the shills/bots and what they're saying.