Workers Power

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Huge win!: DXT4 facility in Laval, Quebec becomes first unionized Amazon warehouse in Canada

In a major victory for Canadian workers the DXT4 facility in Laval, Quebec has become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the country.

A group of some 200 workers organized as the Laval Amazon Workers Union affiliated with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), the second largest trade union federation in Quebec in terms of membership which stands at around 300,000.

In a decision handed down Friday, May 10 the Quebec Administrative Labour Tribunal (ALT) certified the union.

In a press release the union stated:

"After conducting an investigation pursuant to the Labour Code, the ALT determined that a majority of employees at the DXT4 warehouse had chosen to join the union in order to negotiate their first collective agreement. The decision is enforceable and Amazon will be legally required to come to the bargaining table.

“First and foremost, this is a great victory for the men and women from Latin America, Chad, the Maghreb and Asia who were not afraid to stand up for their rights,” says CSN President Caroline Senneville. “Over the past few months, Amazon has pulled out all the stops to block our unionization campaign, flooding the workplace with scaremongering messages. DXT4 workers have given us all a lesson in courage. Of course, we hope it spreads.”

US Amazon labour leader Chris Smalls hailed the victory on X saying "Amazon workers become the 1st unionized at one of the company's Canadian warehouses! Congratulations to making history and showing it’s possible in your country there WILL be more! Proud to stand with my Canadian brothers and Sisters."

https://www.theleftchapter.com/post/dxt4-facility-in-laval-quebec-becomes-first-unionized-amazon-warehouse-in-canada

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"Volkswagen is a massive plant with over 4,300 employees, and the assembly line is segmented in a way that many staff don’t get to know their coworkers in other units. As a car moves through the line, many hands touch it; belonging to people who have never met, but whose labor comes together to build something bigger than the sum of its parts. There is something profound about this connection between you and somebody you don’t know.

I thought about the will to organize in a similar way; envisioning a kind of fire that grows as it catches on inside the plant. The union spirit threads through workers as they talk and build relationships. As solidarity grows, it moves through the line, igniting a spark of bravery within each person who decides to stand up with their coworkers for the chance at building a better life."

- Tabitha Arnold, , on the tapestry she created for workers unionizing with UAW International Union at VW

https://tabithaarnold.substack.com/p/these-hands

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You know what to do🤟

"Workers at the Boeing sub contractor plant where the defective plane parts were being made were discouraged by management from reporting health and safety defects???

I'm shocked. Shocked.

This isn't how capitalism is supposed to work." A militant worker ✊✊✊ (Rachael)

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“The Store Clerk's Burden” from the December 4, 1909 issue of the The Spokane Press:

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liberation is collective

"Mona Abuamara did an impeccable job discussing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and what is almost never discussed is what the Israeli settlers are doing to the Palestinians in the West bank, armed with M16's assault rifles and with the full backing of the military. All of which is stolen land and illegal under international law." A militant worker ✊✊✊

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Union organizing is the best team-building activity, actually.

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Solidarity with Toronto, Ontario Metro grocery workers on strike! One day longer, one day stronger! ✊✊✊ (Rachael)

This reviewer's lack of enthusiasm is disappointing and frustrating, but other than that, it's an excellent review. I'm a Virgo is on Prime, check it out. (Rachael)

Boots Riley’s I’m a Virgo Is a Blast of Fresh Air I’m a Virgo is a superhero satire about a 13-foot-tall black teenager making his way in Oakland. It’s far more wild and surprising than almost anything we normally see on TV.

Great interview with a grocery worker after 3700 Metro grocery workers recently gave their bargaining committee a 100% strike mandate:

"Have you thought about leaving Metro for another grocery store?
Yes, but it’s hard to give up my seniority. I also love my co-workers. We have a great team. I really do like my job. I enjoy preparing food for people and making them happy. I’d rather fight for better conditions than leave. The bosses are making money off our backs, and it’s not right. We deserve to be compensated appropriately." ✊✊✊

“Some full-timers are using food banks”: A Metro employee breaks down why GTA grocery workers are prepared to strike After 25 years as a produce clerk, Tammy Laporte’s wages have fallen woefully behind the rate of inflation. Now, she can’t afford to shop at her own workplace

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"The walls are the publishers of the poor."
- Eduardo Galeano

[graffiti in London, UK]
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CUPE Ontario members on the move!

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"New York Times sez you have to watch I'm A Virgo when it comes out this Friday.

"...among television’s boldest moves in a while."

"'I’m a Virgo' makes the idea of tearing up systems of power feel less destructive than boundless"

"A Swiftian fable by way of Charles Dickens, Ralph Ellison, Alan Moore and Spike Lee.”" Boots Riley ✊✊✊ (Rachael)

The Outsize Genius of ‘I’m a Virgo’ The giant teenager in Boots Riley’s new Amazon Prime series is among television’s boldest moves in a while.

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Enclosure (the privatization of land) is the foundation of capitalism. So-called enlightenment notions of "liberal democracy," a "common good," and a "social contract" were proposed as a counterbalance against the otherwise unchecked power of capital (the rich) over the people (labor), but have been successfully circumvented, neutralized, or simply destroyed by the sheer dominance of capital, which has eventually come to control everything, including entire governments. Now, all of society, including every aspect of our lives, is being privatized or monetized as profit streams for capital.