Workers in Towson, Maryland, have earned the distinction of becoming the first Apple retail workers in the nation to vote to strike over failed union negotiations with their employer. The approximately 100 Apple workers were also the first in the nation to successfully form a union. They did so in 2022, as the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (CORE), joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). Two-thirds of the store’s workers voted to join the union, a resounding success at a company that has long staved off union activity.
  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
    132·
    6 months ago

    American unions should start working out deals for discounted gun training. Shit’s getting more and more fucked and the left should arm themselves for when the psychos on the right start getting serious about their insurrections.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
      3·
      6 months ago

      Many of us already are. And I know there’s selection bias at work, but a lot of my fellow vet friends are siding with the left.

      I worry most about companies like Blackwater (now Academi in an attempt to dodge the negative press); those guys tend to be right-wing, and unlike the rest of the fascist militia wannabes, they’re actually trained and with good supply chains, and younger than us old-timers. That’s why I’m personally focusing on sniper-style training than run-and-gun; I can’t compete with those young bucks in stamina anymore. I’ll be more effective at camping.

    • Philharmonic3@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      No. Guns are not going to help anything, and more will just mean more deaths of poor, underprivileged people and children. You are insane if you think an Amazon union is going to get into a ground war with it’s corporate asshole execs.