Unions Fight Back... Against Democrats
Surveillance AI comes from unions, nurses in Michigan set to strike
From Massachusetts, where Democratic Governor Maura Healey has proposed laying off half of the state’s mental health caseworkers, to Minnesota, where Democratic Governor Tim Walz is locked in a battle to clog the state’s roads with state workers forced to return to offices and demanding healthcare givebacks, to San Francisco, where Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie is proposing layoffs of city workers, much of the Democratic Party continues its abandonment of the labor movement whose 16 million members are the only thing standing between it and electoral oblivion. But unlike in, say, 2009-2010, when unions were so desperate to win approval for the Employee Free Choice Act, which with the filibuster intact, never stood a chance that it led to the AFL-CIO effectively being silent as Obama dismantled UAW contracts and froze federal worker pay, unions are fighting back—in San Francisco on Wednesday, 1,000 trade unionists flooded city hall to demand an end to Lurie’s attacks on unions. Here’s to more of that.
News and Views
The expansion of AI surveillance is unlikely to stop retail theft, but it could certainly further chill unionization efforts.
Anodyne coffee shop workers in Milwaukee sign up with the independent union MASH.
The Oregon House passed legislation Wednesday extending unemployment benefits to striking workers, returning it to the Senate, which passed an earlier version in March.
Daily Action
On June 9, nurses at Henry Ford Rochester Hospital in Michigan will go on strike, members of OPEIU Local 40. Consider supporting their strike fund!
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