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Reminder: The whole reason Labor Day exists is that it was a day factory workers in the U.S. would go on strike if they felt they weren't being paid enough or had unsafe work conditions, & they would remain on strike until their bosses met with them to meet at least some of their demands. Back in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, if Labor Day worker strikes occurred they were very successful in benefiting the lives of unions, but nowadays so few Americans are in unions at a time when we desperately need them.
Great video with excellent hands on guide how to proceed. More of such guides for how to influence people on politics (as most don't follow politics and don't see how they're being manipulated by media and politicians) would be great. Or how to properly research some dirt on bosses or politicians the mass media gloss over - talking about it requires sufficient backup evidence to avoid lawyers. Yes, I realize that's part of a journalist's training, but such training is out of reach for a lot of us. Would love to see more like that.
Means TV sounds cool, but the pricing is over the roof for the working class people outside of the wealthiest countries in the world. Over $100 a year for one service is more than many of us pay yearly for our internet access. That may be fair pricing for the USA or Western Europe but definitely not for the rest of the World.
4:45 This litteraly happened in poland saying during russian ocupation of Poland. "Pracuj Powoli" in my great grandfathers stories. this video explains better(ruclips.net/video/Ey4gl6niYMo/видео.html&ab_channel=Historiabezcenzury). They rallied
This reminds me of polish saying during russian ocupation of Poland. "Pracuj Powoli"(ruclips.net/video/Ey4gl6niYMo/видео.html&ab_channel=Historiabezcenzury).
I live in Spain and the main party of the coalition govt is called the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. After years of Franco most of the Spanish people remember socialism. Workers Unite!
There's an organization near me called "There's Southern Worker's Assembly". I really like one of their slogans. "If you hate your job, don't quit. Start a union!"
Management saying "If you don't like our business, leave for another company" is like Feudal lords saying "If you don't like your king, leave for another kingdom"
sometimes people forget how much of their social security and benefits derived from unions. the employers will never give up some of their power without the pressure from organized workers
Reminder: The whole reason Labor Day exists is that it was a day factory workers in the U.S. would go on strike if they felt they weren't being paid enough or had unsafe work conditions, & they would remain on strike until their bosses met with them to meet at least some of their demands. Back in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, if Labor Day worker strikes occurred they were very successful in benefiting the lives of unions, but nowadays so few Americans are in unions at a time when we desperately need them.
But Steven Crowder told me that Labor Day was a day when all the workers slacked off and bosses would have to come in and do the work of everyone not there! Imagine how heartless we would be if the bosses had to flip burgers, deal with customers, and scrub toilets!!! /sarcasm
Half of the states have practically outlawed unions with ‘Right to Slave’ laws on the books in nearly every red state. Kinda hopeless on the union front right now, when it comes to establishing strong unions across the country.
@ Thank the good lord above! I just remember that blatant lie due to his sheer arrogance, and I hope that his wife cucked him so those twins she has are not his.
Union members make an average of $1.3million more over the course of their careers compared to non-unionized workers in the same field. What more do you need to hear????
All people are told is "You pay 350 thousand dollars to unions over your life time in dues" but it doesn't take a genius to see which number is bigger.
My union just secured me a $30k raise and another $20k over the next 5 years. They were able to do this because they work with other unions to push up the standard industry wage for my position. I also only work 36 hours a week.
Yep our union also recently helped block a merger that would have put a bunch of people out of businesses of course the other company didn't like that that changed there mind but when they hears that only CEOs were getting pensions they made them block it until they can afford to give everyone a raise there also Opening up two new stores.
Our union does a lot of that too they blocked a merger for the employee because when they heard only certain people would get raises they made them block it until they can afford it to give everyone a raise. That's another reason I like them too because managers fear them because there constantly checking up on us to make sure we're all getting paid. Every company should have them. This is why I don't mind paying a lot of bit more taxes for job security.
Joining a union bumped my salary up from $30k to 70k. Every 6 months for the next four years I’m given a $5k raise. Unions really do make a difference and every single worker across the world deserves such protections
The company I work for has 2 groups of employees who do the same work except that one group is unionized and the other one isn't. The unionized group makes a consistent $37/hour and some control over hiring practices and working conditions while the other group makes $15-20/hour with no control at all
Perfect timing lol. Lately I've been responding to my coworkers' complaints about the job with "We should unionize." Partly just to get under the managers' skin, but also to start planting those seeds in people's head. Even now I've seen some positive results, such as coworkers advocating for one another when someone is asked to cover an extra shift.
They're afraid of losing what little they have, and think you're trying to break their confidence so you can take what they have. Think toddler logic. Sharing toys doesn't make the toy disappear, but a toddler will SCREAM at the possibility until its PROVEN they can trust that they're not losing it forever... but the panic and fear is so strong, they will never understand that without someone weathering the tantrum and teaching.
i think its due to a lack of understanding of what unions actually do for workers. although this isn’t everything a union does, they negotiate a higher wage as well as generally more laxxed work environments. in return you pay like 5% of your wage to the union as a working due, and then another monthly payment for pretty much the same thing. so yeah they take your money but you also make more of it so its a fair trade i think. but yeah a lot of people don’t know much about them and only see them as a loss.
Data chair for UE 1466 United Grad Workers at the University of New Mexico here. Before unionization at the end of 2022, we hadn't seen a mandatory raise since at least 2008, and average salaries had increased by less than 10% during that time. Since we unionized ~2 years ago, we've seen an average 22% raise!
There's a union leader called Mick Lynch here in the UK. Worth looking him up, he constantly makes politicians, reporters and bosses look foolish in interviews 😂✊
I typically do that same. Unfortunately, the timing of its early release didn't coincide with my available time to do so. I love this channel and share it often
ALL Workers have benefited by Unions with the 40 Hour Week, Benefits, Safety and Dignity! Example: The Cleaner in my apartment building gets SIX Weeks of Paid Vacation
my local PSL chapter had a really good presentation on how to unionize your workplace. there’s a reason union busters get paid up to SEVEN FIGURES to do what they do. often, they’re paid more than what would be lost by just actually paying labor, because it’s as much about the owners’ power as it is their money.
The fact that the fight against unionization isn't just about short term profit (like basically everything else in neoliberal capitalism), but also about maintaining power over the working class, really gives the game away on what capitalism is really about. It's not about "freedom", it's about maintaining the power of the owning class.
13:56 Based Greek workers proving again that a united workforce can effectively act in an anti-imperialist manner. People, look! This is what organizing can give you!
Remember folks, unions and collective bargaining were the peaceful alternatives that we, as a society, agreed to instead of assembling an angry mob at the business owner's front door and unaliving him in front of his family.
I promote every friend working in private sector how much better it is working in government working union. Its not going to make you rich but its comfortable with lots of other benefits and work life balance.
Always remember: if unions weren't effective, the bosses wouldn't spend literally millions of dollars to try and keep them out. If you ever need proof of how effective unions are, just look at how hard Amazon and Starbucks are fighting any kind of collective bargaining.
1:44 Those takes piss me off so bad. It’s okay for top executives and shareholders to be greedy, but god forbid regular workers be ‘greedy.’ Clearly greed is what gets you paid in this economy.
@qianaroyal1096 That and the fact that many are paid well and have already good benefits. They would easily be swayed by their employers to be anti-union.
We have unions in Australia. They have helped workers get a fair pay ($24.10 is our minimum wage). And they make sure workers are treated fairly. Yeah, Unions are good👍
However their powers have been reduced and this has caused further anti-union sentiment + the results they yield are nowhere near as good as they were pre 1980’s
The Fair Works Commission preserved John Howard's anti strike laws, almost completely killing the fundamental weapon a union has, the power of striking. A Union without the power of strike is a dog without teeth. Also, many unions such as the SDA is hijacked by privileged bureaucrats, the SDA is a yellow Union. The CFMEU is a union for the workers, by the workers, from the workers, but even the ALP is trying to hijack it with bureaucrats, exploiting a recent corruption and sexual abuse scandal. "Never let a crisis go to waste"
My work was unionized when I was hired. Before they unionized in the late 1990s, they were treated horribly. We are also one of the few school districts around here that directly employ us food service workers. Teamsters can help you organize, too.
Labour unions have traditionally been very popular and trusted in Finland, but in the recent decades they have been, I'd say quite systematically, watered down and tamed to the whims of our government and capitalists. And now we have a far-right government that launched a smear campaign against unions, outlawing "political strikes" and generally weakening the bargaining power and rights of workers. And the worst thing is, many workers, especially lower class, have taken the bait and celebrate that very government. My own cousin, coming from a strongly left-leaning working class family, who works as a truck driver, applauds the weakening of unions. Last year there were several strikes in many fields, and when it was the logistics field striking, he posted on ig something along the lines of "unions suck" with a picture at work and him showing the finger. I was speechless.
Here in the province of Québec (in Canada) we are the most unionized place of north america and guess what we always come up in the top places to live in north america. So it should mean something; I work to live, I don't live to work!!! Merci pour les vidéos (thanks for all the videos).
1:20 "The shipping industry made$400 Billion in profits in just the last three years". That is OVER $365 Million Dollars A Day, 7 days a week, for 3 years... not revenue, PROFIT - EXTRACTED out from between what the end user of shipped products paid for this shipping (rolled into the price of our goods), and what was paid to actual workers who carried out the processes of moving things that was paid for.
I agree with you completely. Thanks for the comprehensive, concise, and informative video! I especially appreciate the concrete recommendations and suggestions. And the jokes, lol
I work in finance at a company owned by private equity. The things they say about workers behind closed doors are worse than you think And yes, you should be unionizing to fight back
“If the workers take a notion, They can stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean They can tie with mighty chains Every wheel in the creation, Every mine and every mill, Fleets and armies of the nation, Will at their command stand still.” Joe Hill
“Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ? And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times ? In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ? Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go? Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them ? Over whom did the Caesars triumph ? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ? Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it, The drowning still cried out for their slaves. The young Alexander conquered India. Was he alone ? Caesar defeated the Gauls. Did he not even have a cook with him ? Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. Was he the only one to weep ? Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War. Who else won it ? Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors ? Every 10 years a great man. Who paid the bill ? So many reports. So many questions.” - Questions From a Worker Who Reads
Your channel always gives me hope. I am disabled and cannot work and the way people treat me (that I'm a leech, lazy, stupid, etc.) is just abhorrent, and it's all because of this idea that in order to have value or purpose you must be able to work at a soul-sucking job to make some millionaire more money. I know I don't contribute much financially, but that doesn't mean I deserve to be homeless or starve. Welfare doesn't provide enough to survive and people see it as undignified to accept it, they'll rail on you if they know you receive SNAP or disability benefits. I just want a fair and just society for all, even the poor and disabled.
That's the great thing about being a member of a trade union, not all strikers need to be at the picket line, but the gains are for every worker. Great job as always, comrade. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿
I really wish you would do a video on the topic of the unique difficulties of public sector unions in the US. For example, institutional self-sabotage is more complicated for a teacher (who work with children, and in many cases can’t legally strike and can’t legally negotiate/legislate compulsory membership) than a barista or a factory worker. Obviously it isn’t impossible, but it is much harder, even when a large national union already has a presence and essentially function as labor aristocracy (at least at the state level). All the videos I see on the topic of unionizing focus on the private sector, which is understandable, but I’d love to see more focus on public sector labor struggle. Solidarity ✊
I'm a school bus driver and part of a teachers union. In a way, the teachers are effectively a yellow union as it pertains to our needs in transportation. We always get the shaft and told not to ask for too much because, reasons ... and so, the teachers get 95% of what they want, and we school bus drivers rarely get much. Essentially told to shut up and pay our dues etc, etc, etc ...
Without unions workers are just lone individuals, prey to the owners. All workers should join unions or make new ones and affiliate with other unions. United unions across all employment types is power. Divided we fall, united we stand isnt a famous statement for nothing. Unite in union.
Union worker here for a decent sized city. Our union just came back with a decent looking contract and I'm getting a near 10% pay raise this year as a result. It sucks to see the world burning down around us, but I'm thankful my union is looking out for me atleast.
I’d love to see your take on the California wildfires and insurance companies whenever things calm down a bit. I just learned that insurance companies have been jacking up their prices, cancelling people’s plans, and pulling out of California altogether so they don’t have to pay.
Well the state isn't doing it's job to prevent the fires, naturally the insurance companies will pull out of the area of the state is making all the areas uninsurable. Im not defending it or saying it's good.. but blaming this entirely on the companies is folly. The inept state has a huge hand in this disaster.
Can you please make an in depth video about contract negotiations? Especially comparing contracts, and what it looks like in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. We won our union at my museum, we had a really pushy anti-campaign with many ULPs. Our AFSCME reps said that it was one of the worst anti they'd seen at a non-profit org in their careers. We are a YEAR AND A HALF into contract negotiations, and we MIGHT have one by March. Leadership has come to the table unprepared so many times and refused to give us vital information, especially financial, that we require to negotiate effectively. This has taken so very long, I'm tired. They have not once negotiated anything in good faith, even in the beginning they said we couldn't use our large building with many conference rooms, as we'd be "too distracted." AS if we were children. They chose a spot in another city, knowing that many on our negotiations team are disabled or don't/can't drive. Eventually they realized that this process was not a one and done, renting spaces at the other museums and community centers was too expensive. So we started sessions at our own building. But the staff elevator to the lower offices was broken, they held sessions there when a couple of us couldn't use the stairs to get there. They could have chosen many available spaces, there was tons in accessible spots, but they knew what they were doing. They don't stop doing things like that. We are currently hashing out back pay, and they want it going back only like a month, we wanted it to go for the entirety of the negotiations length, but that won't happen, so we asked for some time in the summer of 2024, about 6 months back from now, only one third of the time we've been doing this. We're still in the weeds on that one, one of the very last things we need to complete this. Does anybody have similar experiences, and what happened if so? What was the outcome?
Remember 1977 Taksim square massacre, where US-backed Grey Wolves opened fire, often from the roofs of hotel skyscrapers, on strikers and demonstrators, killing more than 50 and injuring 220. None of the perpetrators were caught, yet many of the victims and their families were arrested for baseless charges.
Every situation is different. Sometimes unions help and other times, not so much. Back in the day, I was in a union at a large, unionized company with several different union shops. Our union, The UPG of A, did nothing except take money off pay checks. It got so bad that people in my shop worked to decertify the union. It worked and everyone in the shop ended up being classed as management with a better benefit package and whatever other union shops in the company got, we got plus our normal raises.
Great video as always. It irritates me not as much that just before Christmas 2023, my company cut our pay, among other issues, such as never having offered pay raises in my three years working there. What really irritates me is that every employee seemed to accept it and even would state things such as ‘well, we’re lucky to have a job’ and other nonsense, like the company is a charity or something. Have people been beaten down by the ‘unions are socialist and socialist is bad’ bullshit that we’ve been propagated for decades, or what?
Gosh I work at Walmart and it’s insane what I’ve heard about them literally shutting down stores or removing entire departments altogether rather than have a single store or department unionize. Tho I read a distribution center in Canada has successfully unionized, so I hopefully that changes. I’m leaving in a month anyway, but there are so many people stuck in that sinkhole
"The first step is to talk to fellow workers one on one." This is also a great way to attract and draw into the fold workers who are secret infiltraters who will slow or stop organizing by actively interfering with progress in the union meetings. This will be enevatable and the union members must strive to have collective control over all union activities.
I wish I could have a union at my job, but I'm in the south. Not only do I have to fight the institutional opposition to a union in my "Right to Work" state, but a large portion of my coworkers are so anti-union propagandized they wouldn't even start one in their best interests
Thank you for focusing on unions and unionization. We need to bring back the pro union message to the public consciousness. And not let the billionaires twisted incentives attention economy keep distracting people. We need to RE-UNIONIZE America. Keep up the important work! Everyone share this and please get the pro union message out there. Respect
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Reminder: The whole reason Labor Day exists is that it was a day factory workers in the U.S. would go on strike if they felt they weren't being paid enough or had unsafe work conditions, & they would remain on strike until their bosses met with them to meet at least some of their demands. Back in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, if Labor Day worker strikes occurred they were very successful in benefiting the lives of unions, but nowadays so few Americans are in unions at a time when we desperately need them.
Great video with excellent hands on guide how to proceed. More of such guides for how to influence people on politics (as most don't follow politics and don't see how they're being manipulated by media and politicians) would be great.
Or how to properly research some dirt on bosses or politicians the mass media gloss over - talking about it requires sufficient backup evidence to avoid lawyers. Yes, I realize that's part of a journalist's training, but such training is out of reach for a lot of us. Would love to see more like that.
Means TV sounds cool, but the pricing is over the roof for the working class people outside of the wealthiest countries in the world.
Over $100 a year for one service is more than many of us pay yearly for our internet access. That may be fair pricing for the USA or Western Europe but definitely not for the rest of the World.
anyone know how to get the yearly plan with the discount code? It automatically has it as the monthly plan with no way I see of changing it to yearly.
4:45 This litteraly happened in poland saying during russian ocupation of Poland. "Pracuj Powoli" in my great grandfathers stories. this video explains better(ruclips.net/video/Ey4gl6niYMo/видео.html&ab_channel=Historiabezcenzury). They rallied
Here in Denmark unions are very widespread and the working market is so much better for it
This reminds me of polish saying during russian ocupation of Poland. "Pracuj Powoli"(ruclips.net/video/Ey4gl6niYMo/видео.html&ab_channel=Historiabezcenzury).
It was under German occupation if anything
“Don’t scab for the bosses
Don’t listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven’t got a chance
Unless we organize.
Which Side are you on?”
Hey I know that song!
w pete seeger!!
Which side are you on
Brilliant song
Workers of the world unite!
Kazakhstanian workers here. At least some of us.
I live in Spain and the main party of the coalition govt is called the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. After years of Franco most of the Spanish people remember socialism.
Workers Unite!
@@MultiHotFlash Tajik here, I agree!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
@@gilmour6754 Love from Spain
Hasta La Victoria Siempre!
There's an organization near me called "There's Southern Worker's Assembly". I really like one of their slogans. "If you hate your job, don't quit. Start a union!"
Management saying "If you don't like our business, leave for another company" is like Feudal lords saying "If you don't like your king, leave for another kingdom"
Those are some good folks!
sometimes people forget how much of their social security and benefits derived from unions.
the employers will never give up some of their power without the pressure from organized workers
Reminder: The whole reason Labor Day exists is that it was a day factory workers in the U.S. would go on strike if they felt they weren't being paid enough or had unsafe work conditions, & they would remain on strike until their bosses met with them to meet at least some of their demands. Back in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, if Labor Day worker strikes occurred they were very successful in benefiting the lives of unions, but nowadays so few Americans are in unions at a time when we desperately need them.
But Steven Crowder told me that Labor Day was a day when all the workers slacked off and bosses would have to come in and do the work of everyone not there! Imagine how heartless we would be if the bosses had to flip burgers, deal with customers, and scrub toilets!!!
/sarcasm
@the_travelingbreeze : It's funny you mention him since even a lot of Liberal RUclipsrs don't talk about Crowder as much these days.
Maybe he just needs to be louder?@@jessetorres8738
Half of the states have practically outlawed unions with ‘Right to Slave’ laws on the books in nearly every red state. Kinda hopeless on the union front right now, when it comes to establishing strong unions across the country.
@ Thank the good lord above! I just remember that blatant lie due to his sheer arrogance, and I hope that his wife cucked him so those twins she has are not his.
Union members make an average of $1.3million more over the course of their careers compared to non-unionized workers in the same field. What more do you need to hear????
That they get it while working less and working safer.
All people are told is "You pay 350 thousand dollars to unions over your life time in dues" but it doesn't take a genius to see which number is bigger.
@@alteryl Seriously
@@alterylit's tax deductible in Australia.
As a union worker (27 years and counting) and the son of a union worker: 100% yes to everything here. Thank you for this video.
My union just secured me a $30k raise and another $20k over the next 5 years. They were able to do this because they work with other unions to push up the standard industry wage for my position.
I also only work 36 hours a week.
Yep our union also recently helped block a merger that would have put a bunch of people out of businesses of course the other company didn't like that that changed there mind but when they hears that only CEOs were getting pensions they made them block it until they can afford to give everyone a raise there also Opening up two new stores.
Our union does a lot of that too they blocked a merger for the employee because when they heard only certain people would get raises they made them block it until they can afford it to give everyone a raise. That's another reason I like them too because managers fear them because there constantly checking up on us to make sure we're all getting paid. Every company should have them. This is why I don't mind paying a lot of bit more taxes for job security.
lazy worker. you are a weight to the business who hires you lmao.
I work two jobs, around 60 hours a week & probably make less than 50k after taxes
Joining a union bumped my salary up from $30k to 70k. Every 6 months for the next four years I’m given a $5k raise. Unions really do make a difference and every single worker across the world deserves such protections
In my country Belgium it is obligated for every company with over 50 employees to have a union and i think thats beautiful.
Exactly
The company I work for has 2 groups of employees who do the same work except that one group is unionized and the other one isn't. The unionized group makes a consistent $37/hour and some control over hiring practices and working conditions while the other group makes $15-20/hour with no control at all
Sounds like a trade union instead of an industrial one
Perfect timing lol. Lately I've been responding to my coworkers' complaints about the job with "We should unionize." Partly just to get under the managers' skin, but also to start planting those seeds in people's head. Even now I've seen some positive results, such as coworkers advocating for one another when someone is asked to cover an extra shift.
I don't understand the people making less than $20 an hour refusing to hear anything about unions because "they will steal their money."
They're afraid of losing what little they have, and think you're trying to break their confidence so you can take what they have.
Think toddler logic. Sharing toys doesn't make the toy disappear, but a toddler will SCREAM at the possibility until its PROVEN they can trust that they're not losing it forever... but the panic and fear is so strong, they will never understand that without someone weathering the tantrum and teaching.
Every accusation from the capitalists is a confession
@@loorthedarkelf8353 Toddler logic, but also fascist logic.
i think its due to a lack of understanding of what unions actually do for workers. although this isn’t everything a union does, they negotiate a higher wage as well as generally more laxxed work environments. in return you pay like 5% of your wage to the union as a working due, and then another monthly payment for pretty much the same thing. so yeah they take your money but you also make more of it so its a fair trade i think. but yeah a lot of people don’t know much about them and only see them as a loss.
Alone, we are weak
Together, we are unbeatable!
Data chair for UE 1466 United Grad Workers at the University of New Mexico here. Before unionization at the end of 2022, we hadn't seen a mandatory raise since at least 2008, and average salaries had increased by less than 10% during that time. Since we unionized ~2 years ago, we've seen an average 22% raise!
There's a union leader called Mick Lynch here in the UK. Worth looking him up, he constantly makes politicians, reporters and bosses look foolish in interviews 😂✊
Love that man.
he just announced he's retiring in May.
@@missm10 I'm sure he's earned it but hopefully he doesn't disappear entirely!
It feels like a crime that this channel doesn't have 2 billion subs by now!
Watched the vid already in Early Access, more than happy to watch it again.
I typically do that same. Unfortunately, the timing of its early release didn't coincide with my available time to do so. I love this channel and share it often
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Tons of societal and employment norms we take for granted today are thanks to unions. Thank you, unions!
ALL Workers have benefited by Unions with the 40 Hour Week, Benefits, Safety and Dignity!
Example: The Cleaner in my apartment building gets SIX Weeks of Paid Vacation
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
I am in an Union and have been since before I finished my apprenticeship
The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of All Countries, Unite!
my local PSL chapter had a really good presentation on how to unionize your workplace. there’s a reason union busters get paid up to SEVEN FIGURES to do what they do. often, they’re paid more than what would be lost by just actually paying labor, because it’s as much about the owners’ power as it is their money.
The fact that the fight against unionization isn't just about short term profit (like basically everything else in neoliberal capitalism), but also about maintaining power over the working class, really gives the game away on what capitalism is really about. It's not about "freedom", it's about maintaining the power of the owning class.
13:56 Based Greek workers proving again that a united workforce can effectively act in an anti-imperialist manner.
People, look!
This is what organizing can give you!
Remember folks, unions and collective bargaining were the peaceful alternatives that we, as a society, agreed to instead of assembling an angry mob at the business owner's front door and unaliving him in front of his family.
You are right! Unions are good, actually!
I promote every friend working in private sector how much better it is working in government working union. Its not going to make you rich but its comfortable with lots of other benefits and work life balance.
Always remember: if unions weren't effective, the bosses wouldn't spend literally millions of dollars to try and keep them out. If you ever need proof of how effective unions are, just look at how hard Amazon and Starbucks are fighting any kind of collective bargaining.
Unions are like condoms. The more effort someone takes trying to convince you that you don't need it, the more you actually need it.
Great video. Thanks man, I just became a steward in my workplace, can confirm: this is really good information.
1:44 Those takes piss me off so bad. It’s okay for top executives and shareholders to be greedy, but god forbid regular workers be ‘greedy.’ Clearly greed is what gets you paid in this economy.
Labor unions defend freedom and liberty!
Software Engineers need a union freaking immediately. Our jobs are in serious threat, especially with zuck promising to replace us with AI.
For tech jobs I imagine it would be a lot harder to unionize cuz of outsourcing but if NYT tech guild can do it, anything can happen
@qianaroyal1096 That and the fact that many are paid well and have already good benefits. They would easily be swayed by their employers to be anti-union.
So much for "learn to code".
watching this one my first of 2 union mandated breaks 😎
solidarity forever
Even my utterly dysfunctional Teamsters local makes my life objectively better.
We have unions in Australia. They have helped workers get a fair pay ($24.10 is our minimum wage).
And they make sure workers are treated fairly. Yeah, Unions are good👍
However their powers have been reduced and this has caused further anti-union sentiment + the results they yield are nowhere near as good as they were pre 1980’s
The Fair Works Commission preserved John Howard's anti strike laws, almost completely killing the fundamental weapon a union has, the power of striking.
A Union without the power of strike is a dog without teeth.
Also, many unions such as the SDA is hijacked by privileged bureaucrats, the SDA is a yellow Union.
The CFMEU is a union for the workers, by the workers, from the workers, but even the ALP is trying to hijack it with bureaucrats, exploiting a recent corruption and sexual abuse scandal.
"Never let a crisis go to waste"
If you have the weekend off: thank a union member.
If you don't: BE THAT UNION WOMAN/MAN/COMRADE! the people will thank.
Welcome back, comrade 🫡🚩
Great video as usual comrade
Love u JT and team. Stay well
Thank I’m sharing this with my brother - he’s already trying to unionize
My work was unionized when I was hired. Before they unionized in the late 1990s, they were treated horribly. We are also one of the few school districts around here that directly employ us food service workers.
Teamsters can help you organize, too.
I will always be thankful to my mother, who is a proud IATSE member, for beginning my radicalization.
If you're not at the table you're on it. Thanks for this .
Labour unions have traditionally been very popular and trusted in Finland, but in the recent decades they have been, I'd say quite systematically, watered down and tamed to the whims of our government and capitalists. And now we have a far-right government that launched a smear campaign against unions, outlawing "political strikes" and generally weakening the bargaining power and rights of workers. And the worst thing is, many workers, especially lower class, have taken the bait and celebrate that very government.
My own cousin, coming from a strongly left-leaning working class family, who works as a truck driver, applauds the weakening of unions. Last year there were several strikes in many fields, and when it was the logistics field striking, he posted on ig something along the lines of "unions suck" with a picture at work and him showing the finger. I was speechless.
Some More News has a good Union video detailing how Union membership impoves society as a whole, regardless of which union you do/don't belong too.
Here in the province of Québec (in Canada) we are the most unionized place of north america and guess what we always come up in the top places to live in north america. So it should mean something; I work to live, I don't live to work!!! Merci pour les vidéos (thanks for all the videos).
Isn't working to live a bad thing lol
Solidarity forever, we love unions❤
My dad works in a convection oven with cars, he does it for the money, but it's very hot because of the Florida weather.
This is probably on of the most important videos you made so far!
clicked on immediately lol. proud SBWU member here :) ✊
Strikes are effective and highly pedagogical! Thanks!
Proud of our workers in the Piraeus Dock! Ζήτω το ΚΚΕ!
The left needs to create brainrot content slop on YT shorts just like the right does.
We need a national blue collar walkout day! When everyone walks out of their respective shifts
May Day 2028
1:20 "The shipping industry made$400 Billion in profits in just the last three years". That is OVER $365 Million Dollars A Day, 7 days a week, for 3 years... not revenue, PROFIT - EXTRACTED out from between what the end user of shipped products paid for this shipping (rolled into the price of our goods), and what was paid to actual workers who carried out the processes of moving things that was paid for.
14:18 "At the end of the day, it's workers, not capitalists, that actually make the world go 'round".
There is power in a union...
I agree with you completely. Thanks for the comprehensive, concise, and informative video! I especially appreciate the concrete recommendations and suggestions. And the jokes, lol
JT must have read the "How to fire your boss" pamphlet from the IWW recently. 😂
I haven’t actually! I’ll check it out, that sounds great lol
@SecondThought It is. It's a guide to direct action.
I work in finance at a company owned by private equity. The things they say about workers behind closed doors are worse than you think
And yes, you should be unionizing to fight back
Could you specify what they said plz? Just want to know
“If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation,
Will at their command stand still.” Joe Hill
“Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ?
In the books you will read the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?
And Babylon, many times demolished,
Who raised it up so many times ?
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ?
Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who erected them ?
Over whom did the Caesars triumph ?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?
Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone ?
Caesar defeated the Gauls.
Did he not even have a cook with him ?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep ?
Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.
Who else won it ?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors ?
Every 10 years a great man.
Who paid the bill ?
So many reports.
So many questions.” - Questions From a Worker Who Reads
Great content as always! I'm actually beginning the secretary of my local DSA chapter thanks to your encouragement
ooooohhhh, second thought during my union mandated lunch break!
Your channel always gives me hope. I am disabled and cannot work and the way people treat me (that I'm a leech, lazy, stupid, etc.) is just abhorrent, and it's all because of this idea that in order to have value or purpose you must be able to work at a soul-sucking job to make some millionaire more money. I know I don't contribute much financially, but that doesn't mean I deserve to be homeless or starve. Welfare doesn't provide enough to survive and people see it as undignified to accept it, they'll rail on you if they know you receive SNAP or disability benefits. I just want a fair and just society for all, even the poor and disabled.
05:30 "Gotta love the french"
*Hakim would like to know your location*
This is such important information. Thanks for this video.
what a surprise, unite now!
That's the great thing about being a member of a trade union, not all strikers need to be at the picket line, but the gains are for every worker.
Great job as always, comrade. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿
The number one thing that should tell you a union is in your interest is that bosses and owners dobn't like them.
Straight up, good work: Union!
Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains... Very fitting in relation to unions.
I really wish you would do a video on the topic of the unique difficulties of public sector unions in the US. For example, institutional self-sabotage is more complicated for a teacher (who work with children, and in many cases can’t legally strike and can’t legally negotiate/legislate compulsory membership) than a barista or a factory worker. Obviously it isn’t impossible, but it is much harder, even when a large national union already has a presence and essentially function as labor aristocracy (at least at the state level). All the videos I see on the topic of unionizing focus on the private sector, which is understandable, but I’d love to see more focus on public sector labor struggle. Solidarity ✊
5:30 “gotta love the french”
JT said 💙🤍❤️
I'm a school bus driver and part of a teachers union. In a way, the teachers are effectively a yellow union as it pertains to our needs in transportation. We always get the shaft and told not to ask for too much because, reasons ... and so, the teachers get 95% of what they want, and we school bus drivers rarely get much. Essentially told to shut up and pay our dues etc, etc, etc ...
Without unions workers are just lone individuals, prey to the owners. All workers should join unions or make new ones and affiliate with other unions. United unions across all employment types is power. Divided we fall, united we stand isnt a famous statement for nothing. Unite in union.
Union worker here for a decent sized city. Our union just came back with a decent looking contract and I'm getting a near 10% pay raise this year as a result. It sucks to see the world burning down around us, but I'm thankful my union is looking out for me atleast.
I’d love to see your take on the California wildfires and insurance companies whenever things calm down a bit. I just learned that insurance companies have been jacking up their prices, cancelling people’s plans, and pulling out of California altogether so they don’t have to pay.
Well the state isn't doing it's job to prevent the fires, naturally the insurance companies will pull out of the area of the state is making all the areas uninsurable. Im not defending it or saying it's good.. but blaming this entirely on the companies is folly. The inept state has a huge hand in this disaster.
Can you please make an in depth video about contract negotiations? Especially comparing contracts, and what it looks like in both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
We won our union at my museum, we had a really pushy anti-campaign with many ULPs. Our AFSCME reps said that it was one of the worst anti they'd seen at a non-profit org in their careers. We are a YEAR AND A HALF into contract negotiations, and we MIGHT have one by March. Leadership has come to the table unprepared so many times and refused to give us vital information, especially financial, that we require to negotiate effectively. This has taken so very long, I'm tired.
They have not once negotiated anything in good faith, even in the beginning they said we couldn't use our large building with many conference rooms, as we'd be "too distracted." AS if we were children. They chose a spot in another city, knowing that many on our negotiations team are disabled or don't/can't drive. Eventually they realized that this process was not a one and done, renting spaces at the other museums and community centers was too expensive. So we started sessions at our own building. But the staff elevator to the lower offices was broken, they held sessions there when a couple of us couldn't use the stairs to get there. They could have chosen many available spaces, there was tons in accessible spots, but they knew what they were doing. They don't stop doing things like that.
We are currently hashing out back pay, and they want it going back only like a month, we wanted it to go for the entirety of the negotiations length, but that won't happen, so we asked for some time in the summer of 2024, about 6 months back from now, only one third of the time we've been doing this. We're still in the weeds on that one, one of the very last things we need to complete this.
Does anybody have similar experiences, and what happened if so? What was the outcome?
I lost my job for trying to unionize, luckily i got my employer on video threatening to fire me and 3 other employees for unionizing.
I can't get enough of you,please ramp up videos if you can😂
Love from Bosnia❤
Remember 1977 Taksim square massacre, where US-backed Grey Wolves opened fire, often from the roofs of hotel skyscrapers, on strikers and demonstrators, killing more than 50 and injuring 220. None of the perpetrators were caught, yet many of the victims and their families were arrested for baseless charges.
Thank god I am part of the IBEW ❤
Every situation is different. Sometimes unions help and other times, not so much. Back in the day, I was in a union at a large, unionized company with several different union shops. Our union, The UPG of A, did nothing except take money off pay checks. It got so bad that people in my shop worked to decertify the union. It worked and everyone in the shop ended up being classed as management with a better benefit package and whatever other union shops in the company got, we got plus our normal raises.
Great video as always.
It irritates me not as much that just before Christmas 2023, my company cut our pay, among other issues, such as never having offered pay raises in my three years working there. What really irritates me is that every employee seemed to accept it and even would state things such as ‘well, we’re lucky to have a job’ and other nonsense, like the company is a charity or something. Have people been beaten down by the ‘unions are socialist and socialist is bad’ bullshit that we’ve been propagated for decades, or what?
Gosh I work at Walmart and it’s insane what I’ve heard about them literally shutting down stores or removing entire departments altogether rather than have a single store or department unionize. Tho I read a distribution center in Canada has successfully unionized, so I hopefully that changes. I’m leaving in a month anyway, but there are so many people stuck in that sinkhole
amazing video thank you!
The union makes us strong baby
Unions stand against corporate pigs. Union strong
his 'hey gang :3' is adorable intro 🔥
"The first step is to talk to fellow workers one on one." This is also a great way to attract and draw into the fold workers who are secret infiltraters who will slow or stop organizing by actively interfering with progress in the union meetings. This will be enevatable and the union members must strive to have collective control over all union activities.
yeah, I am down for Unionization at this point there are other ideas I have but this is a good one.
The fact that employee-sponsored insurance is mandatory and unionization is not is absurd. Everybody should have access to a union.
"For this earth by right belongs to toilers, and to spoilers of liberty."
I wish I could have a union at my job, but I'm in the south. Not only do I have to fight the institutional opposition to a union in my "Right to Work" state, but a large portion of my coworkers are so anti-union propagandized they wouldn't even start one in their best interests
The fight is up, not down or sideways.
Checks out about the Greek workers. I've been fortunate to travel all over, and people are chill everywhere. Greeks were especially chill though 😎
Very importante episode!
Thank you for focusing on unions and unionization. We need to bring back the pro union message to the public consciousness. And not let the billionaires twisted incentives attention economy keep distracting people. We need to RE-UNIONIZE America. Keep up the important work! Everyone share this and please get the pro union message out there. Respect