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Protest goes international
Electric vehicle manufacturing in the US is overwhelming nonunion, but 1,400 workers for an electric bus manufacturer in Georgia have just unionized. It’s one of the labor movement’s biggest victories in the South this century.
If the effort to organize the Buffalo facility succeeds, it would become Tesla’s first unionized workplace. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has expressed opposition to unions in the past.
“When they do well, we do well, because our work is less likely to be outsourced to a country paying its workers a decent wage"
A task force is exploring how to boost union organizing and clout. Talks have included leveraging federal purchasing to steer agency contracts to companies with unionized labor or that otherwise promote workers’ rights.
United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
While some in the labor movement are seeking to distance themselves, most are supportive even as they call for reforms.
The murder of George Floyd, which was preceded by the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor illustrates the devastating impact racism.
At moments like these, we in the labor movement cannot be silent and must express our outrage.
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