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Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada ( @CambridgeUP , 2018)

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@eidlin
Barry Eidlin
6 years
Out now from @CambridgeUP : my book, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada. If you've been wondering what's behind union decline (and how to fix it), then check it out #labor #1u #classidea :
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On Wednesday, the @UAW announced a campaign to organize all 13 non-union automakers in the US, over 150,000 workers. It’s one of the most exciting organizing drives we’ve seen in the US in decades. Here’s why 🧵 1/
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Your periodic reminder that a @Teamsters UPS strike this year would be the 5th largest strike in US history, and the largest strike *ever* against a single US employer.
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Again, collective bargaining isn’t about the law; it’s about power. We’ll have to see a lot more of this “thinking outside the law” for labor to be able to rebuild.
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Alex Press
9 months
on GM agreeing to put its EV plants under the UAW master agreement: legally, the union was constrained against folding that issue into this strike, but the truth is, you actually can achieve something like that if you are strong enough
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In case it wasn’t clear the first time, let me say: 1. Michigan repealing RTW is a huge victory, a big deal 2. We should celebrate and replicate this victory But why should we be celebrating? 1/ 🧵
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More Perfect Union
1 year
BREAKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just signed a repeal of the state’s “Right to Work” bill in to law. This is the first repeal of the anti-union and anti-worker legislation anywhere in the U.S. in 60 years. It’s a huge victory for working people.
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Great to see more union leaders with a proper understanding of the relationship between building a union and the law.
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“The UAW wasn’t founded by asking for permission. The founders of this union didn’t wait for the law. They didn’t worry about the law. They wanted their dignity and they wanted their fair share, and they did what the hell they had to do to get it." — UAW President Shawn Fain
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10 months
The amazing thing with the @UAW #StandUpStrike is that they’re whipsawing in reverse. Instead of the companies pitting locals against each other for concessions, the UAW is pitting the Big 3 against each other to see who can stay off the Friday strike list ✊🪧
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Michael Martinez
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UAW President Shawn Fain, in Lansing, tells @LindsayVanHulle he got an email from Stellantis "roughly 3 minutes before we were going live" at 10 a.m. with an updated offer, which kept them off today's strike list. "When we make progress, we honor our word." 📸 by Jack Hallauer
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This is a promising development. Instead of fighting turf battles, existing unions and independents can help and learn from each other. It's the only way labor has a future.
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. @Shut_downAmazon and @DerrickPalmer_ from @amazonlabor met with #Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien today to discuss how the Teamsters Union can help Staten Island workers win a first contract.
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Unreal that a Democratic governor with national ambitions would behave in this way in 2023, in the midst of some of the most important worker mobilizations we’ve seen in years. But I guess old habits die hard, so here we are…
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Lindsay Dougherty
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Spineless #SaturdayNightVeto of #SB799 . On the heels of a summer of strikes, where workers are being pushed out by employers who find it OK to STARVE THEM OUT, this is ANOTHER disgrace by ⁦ @GavinNewsom ⁩. Striking workers deserve UI benefits bc THEY earned it. In short…👇
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2 years
Breathing a sigh of relief that this email arrived in my inbox today. Looks like I’ve got more associating ahead of me in the coming years 😊 1/
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🚨 NEWS FLASH 🚨 Social movements don’t come out of nowhere, learn from history, previous generations of activists! Big if true…
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3 years
Here is the challenge we face in @DemSocialists : how to create an organization with more people like Marcos.
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Left Voice
3 years
At the #HuntsPointStrike , we met Marcos, a striking worker, who's just started reading Farrell Dobbs’ Teamster Rebellion. We asked him why. His response? “It teaches you about how the union started. I wanna learn more. I wanna have more power. I want more people to have a union.”
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This is a key shift in public perceptions that has to happen for unions and workers to win: instead of people asking "why do those union workers have so much?" they start asking "why don't I have that too?"
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John Ryan E
2 years
Yes, UPS drivers can make as much as $42 an hour. Rather than being upset about it ask yourself why other delivery companies are not paying the same.
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When @ShawnFainUAW and the @UAW propose a 40% wage hike over 4 years, this is the context in which that demand needs to be considered. It’s just digging out of the hole dug over the past decade.
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Todd N. Tucker
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Autoworker wage stagnation and decline stands out among industry pay trends.
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7 months
Say it with me: employers 👏 have 👏 no 👏 say 👏 in 👏 workers’ 👏 decision 👏 to 👏 unionize ✊
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NLRB Watch
7 months
How the NLRB Stole Christmas: Expedited Representation Election Cases!
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10 months
As a labor scholar, the announcement that a former SEIU local president-turned-corporate-shill for Airbnb and Uber will be California’s next US Senator makes me think it’s time to revive the terms “Labor Fakir” and “Bunko-Steerer”
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9 months
It’s hard to think of a *single* organizing win that would be more symbolically and substantively consequential than organizing the Tesla Fremont plant. Yes, other entire companies are more important, but is there another single shop?
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Josh Eidelson
9 months
New: Employees at Tesla’s Fremont California car factory have formed an organizing committee with the UAW. After the UAW’s big wins at the Big Three, will this time be different? w/ @danahull
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. @UAW President @ShawnFainUAW delivering the keynote at this year’s @TeamsterRnF Convention, as TDU co-founder Ken Paff applauds. This would have been unthinkable a year ago. It’s a new day for the US labor movement. ✊⚙️
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Barry Eidlin
1 year
Solidarity to the millions of French people taking on the Macron government ✊
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More Perfect Union
1 year
French unions called for a general strike today. And the people responded. Over 200 demos were held in the country, with upwards of 3.5 million on strike across the country. In Paris alone unions estimate that 800,000 people turned out. 🧵
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3 months
Read Gabriel Winant on how the response to the student encampments for Gaza reveals the problem of the undemocratic university: Why Students Must Shout to Be Heard
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4 months
🚨 LABOUR ALERT 🚨 As ⁦ @agsem_aeedem ⁩ TAs continue day 3 of their strike, professors in the ⁦ @mcgillu ⁩ Faculty of Arts ⁦ @McGillARTS ⁩ have announced that over 60% of us have joined together to form the Association of McGill Professors in the Faculty of Arts ✊
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9 months
Headlines I never expected to see in the ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ (not that I’m complaining). It truly is a new day in the ⁦ @UAW
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2 years
@AcabEnby @LaurenKGurley Maybe @amazonlabor could take a page from the Delta organizing campaign? 🤔
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3 months
Big news in Quebec today: the CSN has organized a first Amazon warehouse in Laval. Quebec has card check recognition, so there’s no election involved. It would be a first in Canada
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10 months
It’s refreshing how the new @UAW leadership has thrown the old rhetoric of labour-management “partnership” in the trash along with insulting company contract proposals. Instead, they’re saying that they’re ready to fight not just for autoworkers, but the entire working class 🗑️✊
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NEW: Here's what the Big Three and the corporate media's NOT telling you about car prices, autoworker wages, and our fight for justice at the Big Three. Get the facts. #UAW
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Barry Eidlin
10 months
This piece is right (citing @NelsonLichtens1 ) that @ShawnFainUAW is channeling the best of Walter Reuther in articulating a broader vision for @UAW . But it’s more Reuther 1945 than Reuther 1950—a critical distinction. Here’s why 🧵 1/ Follow @newrepublic
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Barry Eidlin
3 years
I wrote a piece about the role of academic workers in the current referendum that could bring direct leadership elections to the UAW, & the history of academic/autoworker relations more broadly
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10 months
If this photo doesn't already strike fear in the hearts of CEOs and billionaires everywhere, the rest of them are about to find out pretty soon.
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Sara Nelson
10 months
It’s gonna be a great day! Heading to the line soon. Who knows where? #StandUpStrike @UAW ⁩ ⁦ @afa_cwa
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3 years
I’m leaving my daughter in LA soon to return to Montreal for the start of the school year. Since I won’t be around, I thought it would be important to impart some Canadian culture so she can get in touch with her roots. #ImCrushingYourHead @KITHOnline
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“I’m not doing my job as a union leader if I’m not talking about organizing every time I speak” ⁦ @UAW ⁩ President ⁦ @ShawnFainUAW ⁩ addressing the closing plenary of ⁦ @labornotes #LaborNotes2024 ✊⚙️
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Barry Eidlin
8 months
The courage and determination that @RepRashida has shown in the face of all the vicious attacks against her in recent weeks, resolutely standing for the basic humanity of Palestinian people, has been one of the few bright spots in a dark time. 🇵🇸
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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
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I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words. I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.
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2 years
Student in office hours: "I think I want to write my paper about something regarding the 1997 UPS strike. Do you have suggestions where I can learn more about it?" Why yes, indeed, I do. #TheKidsAreAlright
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4 months
McGill professors stand with ⁦⁦ @agsem_aeedem ⁩ ! We are not managers, and we don’t scab on our students!
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8 months
Today I’m thankful for the workers’ movement rising across Canada and the U.S., especially the 566,000 public sector workers on strike in Quebec today ✊🪧 #Strikesgiving #FrontCommun #FIQ #FAE #CSN #FTQ #CSQ #APTS #GreveGeneraleIllimitee
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2 years
Impressive developments in India. Notably, the strikers’ demands are explicitly political, taking a stand against privatization, and pushing to extend social security benefits to cover informal workers, who compose a significant part of the labour force.
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3 years
How class struggle transforms consciousness, Exhibit A:
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Left Voice
3 years
At the #HuntsPointStrike , we met Marcos, a striking worker, who's just started reading Farrell Dobbs’ Teamster Rebellion. We asked him why. His response? “It teaches you about how the union started. I wanna learn more. I wanna have more power. I want more people to have a union.”
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2 years
A sobering finding I discovered while working on the @jacobin @labornotes piece on the UAW election: real hourly earnings in the auto industry declined by over 20% from 1990 to 2018, while private sector overall increased by over 17% (source: @BLS_gov ) 1/
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4 months
For the @mcgillu administration to send out an email calling for "respect for others" at the same time that it is warning professors that we can either disrespect our students and ourselves by scabbing on our TAs, or be placed on 100% unpaid administrative leave, is a bit much 1/
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This take from Matt Yglesias seems to be getting some traction on the Left in the wake of the @uawmembers victory in the recent UAW leadership elections. It’s wrong, and here’s why 🧵 1/
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Barry Eidlin
10 months
I can only imagine how Jane must be feeling these days, having spent much (most?) of her adult life working to reform the UAW. She is the genuine article ✊
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Luis Feliz Leon
10 months
I wanted to share this pic of Labor Notes co-founder Jane Slaughter at UAW rally today. Jane is a former auto worker who fought for many of the changes we are seeing in the UAW. The pic encapsulates what I think of ppl doing movement work—we need marathon walkers, not sprinters.
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Barry Eidlin
3 years
In my latest piece for @washingtonpost , I detail the profoundly undemocratic nature of union representation elections, and why employers have no business interfering in them. 1/
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9 months
The hubris it takes to report multi-billion-dollar earnings to shareholders one moment and then immediately turn around to cry poverty when it comes to compensating workers is simply staggering #StandUpUAW ✊🪧
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This morning, our national negotiators called on UAW members at GM's biggest plant to walk off and join our Stand Up Strike. Hear their story. #StandUpUAW
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Just because a union is independent doesn't mean that it is free from the pressures towards bureaucratization that affect more established unions. And as with more established unions, building a democratic culture is key to long-term strength and viability for independent unions
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Breaking: A reform caucus in the ALU at the Amazon facility JFK8 on Staten Island files a lawsuit in federal District Court in Brooklyn to demand a free and democratic election--and vowing to bring the fight to Amazon.
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Solidarity with @PSAC_AFPC ✊ This is one of the largest strikes in Canadian history. For comparison, the number of workers on strike today is comparable to the *total* number of US workers who went on strike in 2022.
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6 years
Interview with @hthompsn in @GQMagazine : What Prisoners Across America Are Really Striking About #prisonstrike2018
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5 years
This highlights a critical feature of the Sanders campaign: his use of his campaign infrastructure to support & stoke other movements independent of his campaign. This is far more important than any particular set of policy proposals. via @politico
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Profile of the ⁦ @UAW ⁩ staff team that helped make #StandUpStrike a reality ⁦ @chactivist ⁩ ⁦ @JonahFurman ⁩ ⁦ @BenjaminDictor ⁩ Three Young Activists Who Never Worked in an Auto Factory Helped Deliver Huge Win for the UAW - ⁦ @WSJ
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2 years
The idea that workers might want a degree of control over their lives at work is so foreign to employers that they can only understand it as a pathology or character defect.
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1 year
A packed house of more than 400 union organizers and activists here for a Los Angeles edition of the @labornotes Troublemakers School! ✊
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Barry Eidlin
4 years
If anyone else hacked into your bank account and withdrew a week’s worth of your wages, they would be charged with theft, wire fraud, etc. But if it’s your employer, then it’s just an “administrative matter they’re trying to resolve.” Wage theft is theft.
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11 months
In my latest for @jacobin I assess the Teamsters’ tentative agreement at UPS. Member organizing won important gains, but also ratcheted up expectations, leaving some feeling that they could have won more. That’s a good problem to have.
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1 year
On the picket line at ⁦ @netflix ⁩ with ⁦ @WGAWest ⁩ ⁦ @UTLAnow ⁩ ⁦ @dsa_losangeles ⁩ and the youth brigade ✍️✊👧🏽👦🏼 #WGAOnStrike #StrikeToWin
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“After carefully considering how to make this look like we’re doing the right thing, we have decided to pit the struggles of marginalized scholars and marginalized hotel workers against each other, undermining both in the process.” Got it.
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1 year
Update on 2023 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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3 months
As luck would have it, I was standing next to ⁦ @NelsonLichtens1 at #LaborNotes2024 just as the VW Chattanooga election was called for the ⁦ @UAW ⁩ 🗳️ 🔥✊
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It wouldn’t be a @TeamsterRnF Convention without the requisite @UnionDrip . On the left, @elliotrlewis models the stone-cold classic black satin Teamster jacket. On the right, Peter Landon models a vintage 1970s TDU puffer vest, which is overdue for a reissue ✊🐴
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1 year
The @jacobin strike selfie with @alexnpress ✊🪧
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If your “model for economic success” consists of driving down wages and trampling on workers’ rights, then maybe it’s time for a model upgrade.
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Alabama’s new Commerce Secretary, Ellen McNair, says “the days of Alabama being a premier destination for industry investment may be coming to an end” if the United Auto Workers are able to successfully organize in the state’s auto plants.
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Of course I had to get a shot with the cover model for my cover story on union reform in the @UAW and Teamsters in @Dollars_Sense #StandUpUAW @ShawnFainUAW
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. @UAW President @ShawnFainUAW showing yet again why he is the labor leader we need right now.
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"The only path forward to peace and social justice is a ceasefire.” — #UAW President Shawn Fain today in D.C. #StandUpUAW #1u
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Today @mcgillu officially awarded me the Changemaker Prize for my “highly understandable and nuanced commentary…on the causes and effects of the unprecedented strike action over the past year in various sectors… 1/
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Wake up honey, new @mcgillu faculty union just dropped… (Come to the rally 4/4 2:30 pm, Arts Building steps!)
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First, it’s the most serious effort to reorganize the manufacturing sector since it was first organized in the 1930s and 40s. 2/
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Barry Eidlin
5 years
Why is @ASAnews sending out surveys to its membership trying to see how willing members would be to attend meetings at non-union hotels? This is shameful and appalling, especially given that our meeting theme this year is "Power, Inequality, and Resistance at Work."
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1 year
It's up to Teamster members to decide how to vote on this agreement, but the most important thing to remember is that the only reason UPS gave up as much as it did was due to Teamster members mobilizing and creating a viable strike threat.
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Barry Eidlin
10 months
“By daring to take on corporate giants and make his case to the American public, Fain and the UAW are cutting through the culture-war noise to the core issues of inequality in our society.” Great piece from @paul_prescod @jacobin
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7 months
Viral social media videos do not by themselves win organizing campaigns. BUT Messaging like this can only help. What a powerful video ✊⚙️
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UAW
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These hands build the cars. These hands make the profit. These hands will determine what happens next. #StandUpUAW
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Had the honour of meeting working-class tribune, and subject of much of my recent writing, @UAW President @ShawnFainUAW , at the @TeamsterRnF Convention ✊🪧 #StandUpUAW
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2 years
Stunning new findings on cumulative union advantage from @TVanheuvelen & @ZParolin : "[U]nionization throughout one’s career is associated with a $1.3 million mean increase in lifetime earnings, larger than the average gains from completing college."
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3 years
@mervatim On the plus side, at least he’s learning how to season properly 🤷🏻‍♂️
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1 year
The @UTLAnow teachers crew is rolling deep at the @labornotes Los Angeles Troublemakers School 👩🏼‍🏫✊
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Barry Eidlin
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McGill @agsem_aeedem TAs strike on Monday. The administration is ordering professors to scab on our students. In this letter to colleagues, I lay out why this would be to the detriment of our students, our university, and our profession.
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Barry Eidlin
2 years
After working on this for over a year with a great team, I’m excited to see the ⁦ @DSA_Labor ⁩ pamphlet on the rank and file strategy in print. I’m also looking forward to helping a new generation of organizers put the pamphlet’s ideas to work! 1/
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Contrary to common narratives about deindustrialization and the decline of US manufacturing, the sector remains a vitally important part of the U.S. economy. 3/
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“Business unionism” can be a murky concept, but there are clear-cut cases. Take this one from former SEIU president Andy Stern, quoted in a 2007 WSJ piece headlined “Labor Leaders, Buyout Kings Speak Same Language” Glad that Stern’s vision is in the rear-view mirror these days.
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In my latest for @jacobin , I use the recent repeal of Right to Work in Michigan to think through how and why RTW repeal matters: not by getting unions an influx of agency fee payers, but by sending a message that it’s no longer open season on unions.
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Good news: injunction that not only would have dismantled the ⁦ @mcgillu ⁩ encampment, but prevented protest within 100m of any building gets rejected: Campement à McGill : la Cour supérieure rejette l’injonction via @RadioCanadaInfo ?
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Barry Eidlin
2 years
A great part of #Socialism2022 is getting to meet the authors you read, like @GrimKim , and be a fanboy 📖✊ #FightLikeHell
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Barry Eidlin
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For any social scientists out there teaching in the fall, feel free to use this one-page guide I give to all my students on how to read social science. I got it from Dylan Riley, who got it from Maurice Zeitlin. It really helps students figure out what to focus on.
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Words to live by: Maurice Zeitlin's "Four Questions," AKA How to Read. I give this to almost all of my students.
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This photo (and accompanying tweet) would have been unthinkable a few short years ago.
@Teamsters
Teamsters
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MILITANT MINDS The new leadership of the @UAW , including President Shawn Fain, came to #Teamsters headquarters today to meet with General President Sean M. O’Brien, General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman, and Teamsters Carhaul Division Director Avral Thompson. #1u
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Barry Eidlin
4 months
It's an honor to be named the 2024 recipient of the @mcgillu Changemaker Prize, part of the President's Prize for Public Engagement Through Media 🏆 1/
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Barry Eidlin
3 months
“Red sky in morning, bosses’ warning” That’s how the saying goes right? Anyway, our @mcgillu Arts faculty union (AMPFA) filed for certification with the Quebec Labour Tribunal today (we have card check in Quebec, so no need for an election) A new day is dawning at McGill 🌄✊
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Barry Eidlin
9 months
This is a great quote, but the political sociologist in me can't help but think "Yes, but that's just a one-dimensional view of power. We need a 3-dimensional view that takes into account agenda-setting and the hegemonic shaping of interests." A nerdy thread 🧵 1/
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UAW
9 months
“Power is the ability of a labor union like UAW to make the most powerful corporation in the world—General Motors—say 'yes' when it wants to say 'no.'” — Walter Reuther , 4th President of the #UAW #StandUpUAW
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Barry Eidlin
4 years
. @JimboStanford is talking here about Canada in the time of coronavirus, but the point he’s making is more general: quite often, what gets described as a “labor shortage” is actually an unwillingness of employers to pay more. via @torontostar
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Barry Eidlin
11 months
Labor law reform won’t save us, etc., BUT this does shift the organizing terrain in a more positive direction. A refreshing change from the past 50 years.
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NLRB
11 months
Today, the Board issued a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC announcing a new framework for determining when employers are required to bargain with unions without a representation election.
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Barry Eidlin
8 months
The failure to organize the South in the 1940s has been an Achilles heel for the entire U.S. labor movement ever since, 8/
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Barry Eidlin
2 years
A great example of why we need more DSA members organizing in the workplace.
@DSA_Labor
DSA Labor 🌹 #UnionYes
2 years
"One of my coworkers reached out to me and she said, "Hey, I know you're a member of DSA and I know you love Bernie—what can you tell me about organizing?'" – @tallnutwalnut on how his Starbucks store got started organizing for their union
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Barry Eidlin
8 months
Second, given the location of many of the auto plants being organized, this is also the most serious effort to organize the U.S. South since the CIO’s Operation Dixie in the late 1940s. 7/
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Barry Eidlin
1 year
I’d love to see more union leaders follow Fain’s lead. The only people who get left out when you bargain in secret are the members.
@brianoshepherd
Brian O. Shepherd
1 year
“Here’s what you can expect from us. No more bargaining in total secrecy behind closed doors. The company knows what’s happening in bargaining. Hell, they’re in the room,” Fain said.
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Barry Eidlin
3 months
Let's be clear: to the extent that university campuses today are unsafe, the fault lies squarely with pro-Israel counter-protesters, the cops, and the university administrators who enable them.
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Barry Eidlin
6 months
The @UAW kicks off its celebration of Black History Month by announcing its organizing campaign at the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama #OrganizeTheSouth #StandUpUAW
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UAW
6 months
Welcome to Montgomery, Alabama. The city where Rosa Parks sat down. And where thousands of Hyundai workers are ready to Stand Up. #StandUpUAW #StandUpHyundai
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Barry Eidlin
1 year
Amazing turnout for the joint @utlanow and @seiulocal99 rally at City Hall today to demand better for all education workers. The kids enjoyed themselves, while keeping me mildly terrified as I tried not to lose them in the crowd. #ReadyToStrike #StrikeToWin #UTLAStrong
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Barry Eidlin
8 months
Any viable path to revitalizing the U.S. labor movement must pass through reorganizing the manufacturing sector. The UAW’s current effort is the most serious attempt to do this that we have seen to date. 6/
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Barry Eidlin
1 year
If this pans out, then we could maybe *start* talking about a revival of labor militancy. Even then, keep in mind that strike levels would be returning to the Reagan era—hardly a high-water mark for labor.
@Radish_Research
Chris Bohner
1 year
IF (a big if) all major expiring union contracts lead to strikes this year, then approximately 893,000 workers would be on strike, the largest # of since 1983 when 909,000 workers were on strike. 1/
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Barry Eidlin
1 year
If this doesn’t revive the labor movement, I don’t know what will.
@UnionDrip
Dripped Out Trade Unionists
1 year
you can never have too many Teamsters jackets
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Barry Eidlin
6 months
I've written about the importance of @UAW getting Stellantis to reopen the Belvidere plant. @sarahlazare actually went and talked to the workers about what's happening on the ground now that the contract is signed @inthesetimesmag 1/
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Barry Eidlin
5 years
@meaganmday Resume comparing aside, it's such a bizarre premise that we should judge the candidates by what they accomplished by age 40. We're voting for the candidates based on what they have accomplished and stand for *today*, not how precocious they may have been at one point in time.
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