On April 28, 1911, the South African government passed the Mines and Works Act that banned Africans to unskilled work in the mines and on the railroads. This especially what became the known as t...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/this-day-in-labor-history-april-28-1911
Shawn Fain smacks back at these southern politicians and employers whining about the UAW organizing campaign. Will it shock you that he has no time for their bullshit? At Mercedes, rank-and-file ...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/calling-out-the-southern-exploiters
This is good news from Biden’s excellent National Labor Relations Board: Labor officials have received a green light to pursue an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/nlrb-moves-on-pittsburgh-post-gazette
The Union army is about to invade Alabama like it should have done in the Civil War. In 2014, the United Auto Workers abandoned a publicized push to unionize at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz plant in...
While final numbers remain to come in, the YES vote for the UAW in the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant is overwhelming. The UAW has finally won in the South. I cannot overstate how huge this is. I'V...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/uaw-wins-in-chattanooga
The UAW organizing campaign and other union campaigns is freaking out the far-right elites in southern states, who have built their message on exploiting the workers of their states for peanuts. ...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/scared-southern-elites
On April 19, 1920, workers affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World went on strike in the copper mines around Butte, Montana. The Anaconda Mining Company, building on the state repress...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/this-day-in-labor-history-april-19-1920
Working as a Disney character sounds awful, especially at Disney World, where the costume + the humidity = hell. Those workers unionized last year. So I am glad to see this promising union vote b...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/unionizing-disney
Let’s not underestimate what a UAW victory in the South would mean for organized labor: The United Auto Workers (UAW) has launched an ambitious campaign to unionize 13 non-union automakers acro...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/a-southern-earthquake