Bob Funk

GOP congressman suggests children getting free school lunches work at McDonald’s Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., on Tuesday defended the impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving fre...

Fuck. You.

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Don’t f**k with firefighters.

Donald Trump was a union buster that repeatedly hired non-union labor for his businesses and refused to pay his contractors.

Be on the side of labor on Labor Day and every other day — and especially on Election Day.

More Workers Are Filing For — and Winning – Union Elections Than in Any Year in the Past Decade A surge in union activity since the COVID-19 lockdown shows no signs of stopping, though it’s still not enough to reverse the two-decade downward trend in union membership in New York and across the…

Workers are petitioning for more elections for union representation — and winning more of them – than any other year in a decade.

JD Vance booed by firefighter union audience after Walz's appeal to same group "Sounds like we've got some fans and some haters," Vance said.

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Off to Chicago to talk to some badass union organizers ✊

Heading out to knock some doors and talk to some fellow union members.

REPORT: OLMS Must Devote More Resources To Addressing Employer and “Persuader” Non-Compliance with Disclosure Laws - LaborLab LaborLab’s August 2024 report reveals a shocking number of employers and labor consultants are continuing to evade disclosure laws, hiding millions spent to prevent workers from organizing. The Labor-...

"Following an exhaustive analysis of corporate and labor relations consultants, LaborLab found that an alarmingly high number of corporations and labor consultants are concealing the extent of spending on activities opposing workers’ right to organize."
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Corporations in at least 2⃣1⃣ states are HIDING how much they spent ATTACKING the right of their employees to organize in 2023 🗓️.

AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NV, NJ, NY, NC, ND, NH, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, and WA. 📌

The following companies were added to our Union-Buster Tracker last week:

🤬Sapporo-Stone Brewing
🤬Universal Logistics
🤬Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, LLC
🤬Sixt Rent A Car, LLC
🤬Honeybee Food Corporation DBA Jollibee
🤬Sibelco
🤬Mauser Packaging Solutions
🤬Escalante Concrete
🤬Clean Earth

Thousands of people chanting "Trump's a scab" at the DNC I'm losing my mind.

in 2023, about 76,808 workers won a certification in a single-union election through the NLRB. that's more than in any year back to 1980.

there still is not enough new organizing, but, by this measure, organizing is at its highest in 43 years.

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"Justice is achievable. And our best days are not behind us — they're before us. Now, it's summer. The winter has passed. And with a grateful heart, I stand before you now on this August night to report that democracy has prevailed. Democracy has delivered. And now, democracy must be preserved."

And the first entry in LaborLab's 2024 Union-Busting Tracker is ... 🥁🥁🥁 ...