There seems to be a mistake with this map, Minnesota is a Canadian province

Yes, I’m aware. My fight is union organizing.

Sodastream is located in settled territory, and therefore an active participant in the settler-colonial project.

Depends on what you consider a reward. Being compassionate and working to build a better world is extremely rewarding, but I’m not going to live in luxury. The rewards from compassion are worth far more

Our CEOs have strayed from the holy Profit and directed our ship away from the Great Material Continuum. Their blasphemy cannot be tolerated!

Honestly, it’s hard to say. I think it’s quite possible, however there’s a surprising twist with the upcoming admin: the nominee to chair the NLRB isn’t shit and has an outstandingly ok labor record as a Republican.

Edit: fwiw I know exactly how much that actually means. It just means we might get some weak pushback against the destruction of the NLRB, but the labor movement has worked with less.

I’m a union organizer, and by coincidence I live in MN, so this is my bread and butter.

You pretty much nailed it, with the only exception that right-to-work laws allow everyone in the workplace, even members, to avoid paying dues entirely. As the map shows, MN is not one of those states though. We have different terms in organizing circles. We call states with right-to-work “free rider” states, and those without are called “fair share” states.

Every union decides how they want to handle nonmembers outside of their legal obligations. My union is CWA, we don’t allow nonmembers to have any say at all on union matters. This means no input on the bargaining survey, no bargaining update emails, no electing the executive board, no voting on the contract, no participation in committees, no admittance to most meetings, etc.

one obvious thing - what if they voted to go on strike

In both cases, regardless of free rider laws, nonmembers are not entitled to the strike fund. The dues equivalency your grandpa paid excluded the few cents for the strike fund and a few other union governance things like that. However, they can still participate in the strike.

They should make a version for weed

The face of chaos

I’m pretty well educated on marxist theory already, but I’ll always take more book recommendations!

100% homie.

And if we don’t get it?

SHUT IT DOWN

Sure I’ll think about them, as soon as they cede all their wealth and give their companies to the workers.

God damn loch ness monster!

They already have lists. The only hope we have is to stand together in solidarity as the working class against the billionaire capitalists entering power.

He only thinks something is based when poor people die.

On behalf of the mathematically challenged:

That’s not what put the nail in the coffin though, it was unions threatening a general strike that ended the order

Just wait until they try heating the raw milk in a pressurized container at 200° F

P2E is union made too, if you need any other reasons

Don’t forget that it always tastes better when the turkey is fried while frozen solid