Posts by Greater Chicago Social Media Director and appointed members:
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IWW Methods Score Major Victory for Healthcare Workers
https://industrialworker.org/iww-methods-score-major-victory-for-healthcare-workers/ The methods of the IWW have enabled a small group of nurses to grow to more than thirty caregivers who have organized themselves to face the difficulties caused by shortages, lack of resources, and work overload. Max V. IWW Brussels member
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Does Your Employer Have Illegal Rules on the Books?
On August 2, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), (redacted) issued a game-changing decision known as Stericycle. The ruling enables unions to effectively challenge company rules that intimidate or chill workers from engaging in protests, picketing, demonstrations, and other legitimate union activities. Stericycle overturned the Labor Board’s 2017 Boeing decision, which allowed employers to maintain…
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NLRB finds contract employees are ‘employed’ for bargaining purposes.
(FW Ian) NLRB rules that contractors have a common employer of “whoever is ultimately contracting them” in a case regarding YouTube Music employees (many contracted through Cognizant) vs. Google. This is big because it means that any protections the law will apply, will apply no matter if the worker is a temp contractor through a…
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American Workers Are About To Get Way More Power. Here’s How.
A vital piece of labor law, the Joy Silk doctrine, is expected to be reinstated by the NLRB. Federal labor regulators may soon upend how unions are formed in America. An impending NLRB ruling is expected to reinstate the so-called Joy Silk doctrine, which allows workers to form a union simply by collecting signed authorization…
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Biden Labor Board Restores Right to Use Heated Language
In a landmark May Day ruling called Lion Elastomers, the National Labor Relations Board restored the rights of union representatives to use heated language, including occasional profanity, during arguments with management. The Board ordered employer Lion Elastomers to reinstate steward Joseph Colone with full back pay going back to a 2018 discharge. The ruling reversed…
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NLRB Punches Holes in No-Recording Policies
(text copied from NLRB Punches Holes in No-Recording Policies Labor Notes article) A February 13 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) clarifies whether employees can be disciplined for recording conversations with management officials. The ruling (372 NLRB No. 50) involved two Starbucks stores in Philadelphia and members of a rank-and-file group called Baristas…
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Delegate Outreach Program
What’s a delegate? IWW Delegate is an elected office which can be held by any member with six months of consecutive good standing. Delegates sign up and provide orientation for new members, collect cash dues and assessments where needed, and help maintain engagement with new and existing members. Outreach Periodically members should receive an email,…
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Solidarity with the Movement to Stop Cop City & Defend the Weelaunee Forest
Approved at the February 2023 GMB The Greater Chicago IWW General Membership Branch stands in solidarity with the Weelaunee forest defenders and the movement to stop the Cop City development in Atlanta, Georgia. The full statement from Defend the Atlanta Forest can be found here: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/solidarity/.
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Support for RWU Statement of Public Rail Ownership
The Greater Chicago IWW General Membership Branch would like to express our support for the public ownership of the rail infrastructure of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, under democratic workers’ control, to be operated henceforth in the public interest, placed at the service of the people of all three nations. We urge all of our…