Mahmoud Khalil Will Be Free
Mexican GM workers vote on whether or not to have a real union
Sorry for the late newsletter today! Your humble writer’s wife is a bit under the weather.
Today’s Win
Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered to be freed by Judge Michael Fabiarz. This comes as the labor movement has rallied around Khalil, a former UAW member at Columbia University. It’s a massive victory for both Khalil and his family, but also for whole-worker organizing, the model popularized by Jane McAlevey, that emphasizes looking at workers’ lives beyond the workplace. The fact is that a huge amount of the tens of thousands of academic workers that have joined unions in the past five years care deeply about cases like Khalil’s. That the labor movement stood up and demanded his release can only bode well for future organizing in this critical sector.
News and Views
300 Zenimax workers win a first contract with Microsoft.
Labor historian Josh Freeman opines on the causes behind deteriorating union density in New York City.
Hospital workers in Oregon are organizing in the aftermath of a failed merger.
More Safeway stores are joining the UFCW’s version of the Stand Up Strike. This is exactly the type of militancy we need right now.
Teamsters for a Democratic Union reports on how collective action and a strike threat at the San Diego Zoo helped rank and file Teamsters win a strong new contract.
We missed this yesterday. SINTTIA, an independent union supported by the American labor movement seeking to break the institutional Mexican labor movement’s culture of sweetheart contracts and violence against dissidents, has a major election coming up from June 25 to 27 for 6,500 GM autoworkers in San Luis Potosí.