#union power

[writergeekrhw]

When we fight, we win!

Congratulations to SAG-AFTRA. I hope you got everything you want and deserve and a bonus pony. See you on the set!

#tv writing #sag strike #wga west #union strong #union power

[porterdavis]

#union power

[leo-fie]

Hollywood strike, UPS strike, LA hotel strike, all of the strike! Good for you, America! Solidarity from across the pond!

#strike #sag aftra strike #wga strike #ups strike #la hotel strike #all the strike #labor rights #union power #union strike

[inthenight-inthedark]

Just FYI: 48,000 grad students, post-doctoral fellows, and academic researchers across the 10 UC campuses are currently on strike for fair bargaining practices, marking the largest academic strike in history.

This strike is incredibly important for setting a precedent. I have seen first hand how overworked and underfunded my colleagues are; they are the backbone of the university and the academic system as a whole. They deserve better, and I am in full support of their efforts

Images caption: UCSF grad students take to the literal streets, hang banners from buildings, at the Mission Bay Campus

Image source: Personal images (I am supporting my colleagues by maintaining experiments in the lab)

Images caption: Berkeley students rush the Chancellor’s office and president’s office in Oakland during week three of the UAW strike

Image source: my partner, unnamed for privacy, on strike at UC Berkeley

Spread the word, and be sure to donate to the cause if you can

#grad students #university of California #academia #academia critical #uc system #union power #uawonstrike #uaw #California #uc strike

[whatafirefeelslike]

not HarperCollins posting about MLK, a known union supporter, while 200+ of their employees are on strike!!

it would be awesome if people responded to HC’s social media posts and pointed out their hypocrisy with the hashtag #hcponstrike :)

#union power #martin luther king jr #at least the tweet got ratioed #also pls note the union is Not asking for a boycott of HC books; authors don’t deserve to suffer more than they are w/o them

[majormisunderstanding]

Eugene “Gene” Debbs (1855-1926), the only U.S. presidential candidate to run for office from prison.

He was jailed for being a union organiser for railway workers who went on strike over pay cuts. Years later this became a legal act, and he would not have been jailed.

#union power #eugene debbs #workers #human rights #political prisoners #worker rights

[too-many-blorbos]

#jorts the cat #united farm workers #union power

[mortuarybees]

same people crying about ups drivers winning $42/hour are the same people who dismiss unions and say they just take your money and don't do anything for you. Bet you'd like $42/hour!!!!!!!

#not to discount the experiences of workers like those part of the national nurses united union #who are working to unseat corrupt and ineffective union staff who have not been representing their members #but a union is made up of its members and if you dont like what your union is doing there are avenues to get involved #also! a union's power comes from its membership numbers. if youre working at a union site and youre not a member. well. #why do you love management so much #and if your workplace isnt unionized. well. there hasnt been a better time in a century to get started #henry speaks

[hellyeahheroes]

How Unions CRUSH Capitalsits by Adam Conover

#thought provoking #thought provoking long queue #evils of capitalism #workplace abuse #wage theft #unions #union power #unionize everything #workplace safety #Youtube

[writergeekrhw]

Hi. I wanted to tell you I love the DS9 episode Bar Association! The Union episode is easily one of my favorites.

Thanks! That one's obviously been very much on my mind throughout Hot Labor Summer.

#ask me anything #tv writing #ask me stuff #ds9 #star trek ds9 #star trek #deep space nine #star trek deep space nine #deep space 9 #star trek deep space 9 #the bar assocation #rom #union power

[aquitainequeen]

The WGA has two main stipulations. First, the guild wants to make sure that “literary material” — the MBA term for screenplays, teleplays, outlines, treatments, and other things that people write — can’t be generated by an AI. In other words, ChatGPT and its cousins can’t be credited with writing a screenplay. If a movie made by a studio that has an agreement with the WGA has a writing credit — and that’s over 350 of America’s major studios and production companies — then the writer needs to be a person.

“Based on what we’re aiming for in this contract, there couldn’t be a movie that was released by a company that we work with that had no writer,” says August.

Second, the WGA says it’s imperative that “source material” can’t be something generated by an AI, either. This is especially important because studios frequently hire writers to adapt source material (like a novel, an article, or other IP) into new work to be produced as TV or films. However, the payment terms, particularly residual payouts, are different for an adaptation than for “literary material.” It’s very easy to imagine a situation in which a studio uses AI to generate ideas or drafts, claims those ideas are “source material,” and hires a writer to polish it up for a lower rate. “We believe that is not source material, any more than a Wikipedia article is source material,” says August. “That’s the crux of what we’re negotiating.”

In negotiations prior to the strike, the AMPTP refused the WGA’s demands around AI, instead countering with “annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology.”

The looming threat of AI to Hollywood, and why it should matter to you by Alissa Wilkinson

#wga strike #writer's guild of america strike #wga #writers' strike #writers' rights #important #support the strike #This is just one of the many reasons for striking but it needs careful consideration #AI NEEDS to be regulated #power in a union

[left-reminders]

#boris karloff #bela lugosi #frankenstein #dracula #halloween #union #screen actors guild #all power to the unions

[jonasgoonface]

Heyyowhattup! Cub foods strike this weekend! All the cub foods in the Twin Cities metro area unionized with UFCW local 663 are striking and you should get out there and hold the line with them. heres a map of all the stores Do a cub crawl and see whos parking lot got the best snacks and chants. If there's a store that's open go in and ask for the manager and tellem Jonas says they're a rat, then shoplift as much as you can carry on your way out 🐀  I want my pals to not be exploited! But that's not the extent of what we need from a union. It's not enough to want a "fair share" of the wealth america extracts from the rest of the world. We cant be the exceptions to capitalism, we need to be it's destroyers. Lets learn our power and sharpen our claws and make bosses across Minnesota feel kinda weird!

#union #cub foods #ufcw #solidarity #grocery store #labor rights #labor strike #minnesota #scab #worker power #boss

[queen-mabs-revenge]

i'm sorry but what are we doing what are we doing what are we doing??? 500 people in a hospital just slaughtered - pure act of genocide and what are we doing??? like, yes, just the fact that the numbers out on the streets are what they are is testament to unprecedented failure in the western propaganda murder machine, but at the same time what the fuck are we doing???

because this can't be another blm - record numbers of people out on the streets and what? what happened? what result but deepened reaction and further entrenched state violence? this is an acute genocide that is happening right now we're just gonna do the same shit we've been doing for a decade that we know does worse than doesn't work??

signs at protests shouldn't be begging biden to call for a ceasefire, they should be calling for unions to stand up and collectively refuse to handle genocidal war goods. unions representing newsroom crews and newspaper workers should collectively refuse to produce propaganda of genocide. the fucking politicians aren't gonna fucking stop this shit, it's only gonna be labor shutting it down that's gonna stop it. fuck letters to the senator we gotta stop the fucking death machine and labor is the ones with our hands on the levers.

#palestine #strikes aren't just for better working conditions #they're to show who has the power #without us none of this runs #labor has to step the fuck up and stop this now #we should be writing to labor unions i swear to fuck