WNC Labor News

Union of Southern Service Workers on Instagram: "BREAKING: #WaffleHouse announces the “single largest additional investment” of pay raises in the company’s 68-year history after workers go on strike, ... 2,258 likes, 91 comments - raiseupthesouth on June 8, 2024: "BREAKING: #WaffleHouse announces the “single largest additional investment” of pay raises in the company’s 68-year history after workers go...

Some great news for food service workers in the South today! After a strong organizing campaign with USSW, Waffle House workers are getting a raise! www.instagram.com/reel/C79Lzf5...

08.06.2024 17:44 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: The UAW announces that workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee will be filing a petition for a union election for 4,100 workers there

It will be the first election in the UAW's historic, ambitious drive to unionize 13 non-union automakers in the U.S.

18.03.2024 14:00 — 👍 875    🔁 213    💬 6    📌 24

AFBU Bingo Night Fundraiser @ Different Wrld! We're hosting a bingo night at Different Wrld in West Asheville! AFBU is hoping to send a few organizers to Chicago in April to attend the Labor Notes Conference and bring back new knowledge and ski...

AFBU is hosting a bingo night to send some of their organizers to Labor Notes Conference this April. 🎡 actionnetwork.org/events/afbu-...

17.03.2024 20:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mark your calendars and come out! Nurses are specifically asking for community support at this action.

17.03.2024 20:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A First Contract Is Finally in Sight for Unionized Starbucks Workers After a grueling campaign, Starbucks Workers United and the company announced a major breakthrough this week that’s being hailed as “a very, very big deal.”

After a grueling campaign, Starbucks Workers United and the company announced a major breakthrough this week that’s being hailed as “a very, very big deal.” inthesetimes.com/article/star...

29.02.2024 23:40 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

our teachers are intermittently striking, though NC law prohibits their association/union from officially bargaining with the district. It's still slowly working. Solidarity.

31.01.2024 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Across the country — but perhaps most intensely in the South — the rising heat at work is having a surprising ripple effect: It is driving workers to organize.

capitalandmain.com/extreme-heat...

06.10.2023 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

United Auto Workers makes progress in effort to unionize Mercedes factory The United Auto Workers pressed forward in its effort to unionize auto factories in the South by announcing that 30 percent of Mercedes workers at an Alabama factory have signed cards endorsing unioni...

Two plants in the South have reached legal threshold of support needed for UAW to call a union election.

First was Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee; second is Mercedes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Good time for EU unions and government to show solidarity
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11.01.2024 14:17 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

UAW says more than 30% of workers at Alabama Hyundai plant sign union cards - Reuters UAW says more than 30% of workers at Alabama Hyundai plant sign union cards - Reuters

UAW says more than 30% of workers at Alabama Hyundai plant sign union cards - Reuters

04.02.2024 03:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Parade and Queens Ball | Asheville Mardi Gras

Keep your eye out at the Asheville Mardi Gras parade this weekend for the Labor Krewe being headed up by Asheville Food and Beverage United! www.ashevillemardigras.org/parade-and-q...

06.02.2024 02:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quote from Anneisha Williams: “It’s time to get to work! After ten years of organizing, going on strike and never backing down, even in the face of a referendum, California fast food workers finally have a seat at the table. At the Fast Food Council, workers like me will have an official venue to not only raise our concerns, but to shape real improvements to our pay, working conditions and working hours. We now have the power to win transformational changes for every fast food cook, cashier and barista in our state.”

A letter to the Secretary of state from Amber Evans withdrawing the referendum

A letter to the Secretary of state from Steven McDermed withdrawing the referendum

IT'S OFFICIAL: Today corporate interest groups officially withdrew their referendum efforts in California, clearing the way for the creation of the nation's first Fast Food Council.

Los Angeles worker leader and Jack in the Box worker Anneisha Williams released the following statement:

29.12.2023 20:58 — 👍 55    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 4

U.S. capitalists conclude ‘workers are losing control’ of job market NEW YORK—For U.S. capitalists, it’s been a rough few years, at least in one sense. As the COVID-19 pandemic receded, the labor market came roaring back to life, with employees in short supply and ...

(People’s World) US: “U.S. capitalists conclude ‘workers are losing control’ of job market”: Strong analysis of the greedy pigs trying to engineer a crisis in order to break the Labor organizing wave.

02.12.2023 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(People’s World) US: “U.S. capitalists conclude ‘workers are losing control’ of job market.” Great analysis of the shifting state of the labor market and the ruling class pigs intentionally pushing for crisis to break the Labor wave. www.peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-...

02.12.2023 03:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(Payday Report) Chattanooga, TN: UAW launches 3rd Attempt at Volkswagen plant. A longshot but the successes of the Big 3 strike could change the climate. paydayreport.com/uaw-launches...

01.12.2023 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Asheville: Nurses’ union getting the goods to improve patient outcomes AND nurses work lives! You literally love to see it. 💜 avlwatchdog.org/mission-chan...

01.12.2023 02:56 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING—In a big win for unions in the South, graduate student workers at Emory University vote overwhelmingly— 909 to 73 — in favor of unionizing with @SEIU Workers United Southern Region

28.11.2023 21:38 — 👍 34    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3

Mexican farmworker's death under investigation by North Carolina Department of Labor Thirty-year-old José Arturo González Mendoza of Guanajuato, Mexico was in North Carolina under an H-2A visa for temporary agricultural workers. He began working at Barnes Farming in Spring Hope, abo...

The North Carolina Department of Labor is investigating the death of a H2A farm worker who was killed by heat last week.

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13.09.2023 20:45 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Asheville: MtnX article on Asheville Food and Beverage United becoming a full-fledged union! mountainx.com/food/whats-n...

28.11.2023 18:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0