#unionization

[lunariarts]

Crunchyroll is firing and recasting Mob Psycho 100 Voice Actors and Staff to stop unionization efforts.

Kyle McCarley, the English Dub VA for Mob, helped organize his coworkers and is almost certainly not returning for season 3. The ADR Director of both previous seasons has also confirmed that he will not be returning to the project. If you like Mob Psycho 100, consider pirating it instead of watching it on official platforms. Also consider contacting Crunchyroll and voicing how awful it is to treat their casts this way.

[destielmemenews]

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[whatbigotspost]

Lil update (11/28/22) on Amazon and union busting…

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[sailoreuterpe]

[thefugitivesaint]

Happy May Day all. Solidarity and all that jazz.  For your brain, some history on May Day and how it came to be: 1. The Zinn Education Project:  May 4, 1886: Haymarket Tragedy

2. IWW Historical Archives:  The Brief Origins of May Day

3. NPR : What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism

[katy-l-wood]

Hey, if you support the Harper Collins strike, please consider signing their solidarity letter! It has 5,000 signatures so far and they'd like to triple it by the 15th.

Sign Here

[grackleink]

Being in a union is fucking amazing in theory, but in practice you actually have to do all the work. You have to organize within your union, you have to engage in politics and deal with difficult personalities. You have to manage funds and get the membership involved. Otherwise you end up with a boomer union president acting as a despot refusing to use the union's money - your money - for anything valuable and hoarding it instead. Refusing to step up and demand better pay and working conditions because he got his. You can't just join a union and then assume everything is fine. You have to join a union and then get involved in the union. You have to fight for it.

[emuanon34]

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning!!! Happy Labor Day!!!

Enjoy Capitalism! There is no escape!!!

[33v0]

French Unions came together in protest. They cut power to their billionaires and gave it for free to people who need it.

Unions work. That's why there is so much propaganda trying to convince you otherwise.

[justinssportscorner]

Andrea Hsu at NPR:

Hours before their final game of the season, the Dartmouth men's basketball team has voted to join a union, becoming the first unionized college sports team in the U.S. and opening many thorny questions about the future of college sports. Led by Dartmouth forward Cade Haskins and guard Romeo Myrthil, the 15 players announced their intent to unionize last September, arguing that the business of college sports is different that it was a few years ago. Tuesday's vote was 13 to 2 in favor of joining SEIU Local 560. "Today is a big day for our team. We stuck together all season and won this election," wrote Haskins and Myrthil in a statement. "Let's work together to create a less exploitative business model for college sports." The election was held over the objections of the Trustees of Dartmouth College, which last week filed a motion asking the National Labor Relations Board to halt the election pending further review. The NLRB denied that request. On Tuesday, Dartmouth asked the NLRB to overturn the decision by the agency's regional director to hold the election in the first place, setting the stage for a protracted legal fight.

Are college athletes employees?

At the heart of this election was the issue of whether college athletes should be considered employees and therefore have to the right under federal labor law to form unions and collectively bargain over pay and benefits. In the student newspaper, Haskins and Myrthil said they believe they should be compensated the same as other student employees. Being paid for the time they spend on the sport "would alleviate the need for second jobs and enhance our experience as part of the Dartmouth community," they wrote. A union would also allow them to negotiate better health care benefits, to cover out-of-pocket costs incurred as a result of injuries sustained while playing for the school, the players argued.

In a ruling last month, NLRB regional director Laura Sacks concluded that an employer-employee relationship does exist between the Dartmouth basketball players and the college. She found that the players perform work that benefits their school through things like alumni donations and publicity, that the players are compensated for that work in nonmonetary ways, and that Dartmouth exercises a lot of control over that work. Her ruling paved the way for Tuesday's election.

Dartmouth College's men's basketball team is the first college basketball team to be unionized, as they voted to join SEIU Local 560.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Dartmouth men's basketball team makes history by becoming first US college sports team to unionize

[redditreceipts]

One of the worst consequences of patriarchy is unequal pay and the bad working conditions for women. These include: 

no maternal leave

discriminatory hiring practices

harassment from higher-ups and colleagues

lesser pay 

no or bad healthcare benefits

etc. 

Also, the jobs typically occupied by women are paid worse around the world, while oftentimes being more demanding and higher in stress, such as nurses, teachers, cleaning personnel, etc. 

Material equality is crucial for women’s liberation! 

In the United States, women in unions make higher wages and reduce the gender pay gap significantly. Women in unions on average make 205 $ more per week. The union bonus is higher for women than for men, especially for Latina and Black women: unionized Latinas make 271 $ more per week, while Black women make 175 $ more per week. This effect is also true for Asian and white women (Asian women in unions make more than men lmao)

Unions provide health protection for female workers in precarious working conditions: 84 percent of unionized workers have access to employer-sponsored healthcare, while only 54 percent of non-unionized workers have access to healthcare 

Patriarchy is a social construct that was implemented to extract free labour from women. Patriarchy is a justification for lesser pay, worse jobs, harassment in the workplace and a healthcare system that is centered around the male body. 

If you want to help women, especially women of color, join a union today!

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[whatbigotspost]

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[racefortheironthrone]

Does the comics industry treat its creators worse than other entertainment industries? I ask because someone mentioned Alan Moore has given up writing comics because of his disillusionment with the comics industry, and that it was the equivalent of Martin Scorsese giving up films.

I discuss this in some detail here:

Historically, the comics industry has been surprisingly hostile to most forms of revenue sharing - residuals, profit shares, and the like - and unusually wedded to so-called "work for hire." This has led to a lot of famous creators getting screwed when it came to their financial rights or creative inputs over their creations.

However, there's nothing intrinsic to the comics industry that made it so - the problems that comics creators have complained about for decades were the same problems that creators in film and television complained with all the time before the advent of unionism in those industries. So yeah, comics would be quite different if it was unionized.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Iqaluit Housing Authority employees are out on the picket lines Friday morning calling for better wages, increases to allowances and no concessions.

Picketing began at 8 a.m. in front of the Iqaluit Housing Authority building on Sivumugiaq Street, and ended around noon. The required minimum is four hours according to union rules. The picket line is expected to start up again Monday morning starting at 8 a.m.

About 13 workers are on strike. Ten of them were out Friday morning at –26 C — windchill of –42 C — with signs and noisemakers, rotating between the picket line and warming up in cars.

The members belong to the Nunavut Employees Union, which is part of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). The union served the housing authority with notice of a potential strike on Monday, and says the housing authority responded by issuing a notice Wednesday that it would lock out staff this weekend [...]

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