Just a few days ago, the UAW announced a campaign to unionize over a dozen non-union automakers in America. Now it’s reporting rapid progress, citing the example of 30% of workers at Volkswagen’s only U.S. plant having signed up in less than a week.
As fears spread among the companies that the effort to go union may quickly succeed, they have taken steps in response. Honda has set up its own anti-union campaign, distributing propaganda among the workers that encourages rejection of the union.
The unionization campaign was announced just a few days after the UAW’s strike victory against the “Big Three” auto companies amply demonstrated the benefits of unions, with raises expected to range from +33% to over +160% (after including forecasted COLA and CWIs) among other gains.
The UAW has set up websites where employees of every targeted company can easily join the union online. If you’re one, check them out below. And anyone can send them to friends, family and others.
After clicking the link, click the big “Sign your Union Card” button (scroll up if you don’t see it), fill in your details and check your email.
- Toyota: https://uaw.org/join/#toyota
- Honda: https://uaw.org/join/#honda
- Hyundai: https://uaw.org/join/#hyundai
- Tesla: https://uaw.org/join/#tesla
- Nissan: https://uaw.org/join/#nissan
- BMW: https://uaw.org/join/#bmw
- Mercedes: https://uaw.org/join/#mercedes
- Subaru: https://uaw.org/join/#subaru
- VW: https://uaw.org/join/#vw
- Mazda: https://uaw.org/join/#mazda
- Rivian: https://uaw.org/join/#rivian
- Lucid: https://uaw.org/join/#lucid
- Volvo: https://uaw.org/join/#volvo
Two of the points are not about work per se but specifically about ending work. Labour organising is not ending work. In fact labour organising is specifically for the purpose of continuing to work.
The third point is about personal work-related struggles. This post is not a community member seeking personal help with work-related struggles.
…what exactly do you think antiwork means? Specifically, what do you think “ending work” entails? Because it isn’t everyone stopping labouring.
It doesn’t matter. What matters is what this community is about. This community is about being idle, not labour organising. Look at the community’s icon. Note the presence of In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell on the community’s reading list.
You’ve introduced a new term here, “everyone”. You’re clearly thinking in terms of social movements like socialism or communism. This community isn’t about a social movement.
You are extremely misinformed. Antiwork is a movement aligned with socialism. The “work” that antiwork wants to end is capitalist employment, specifically. I have always thought, even back on Reddit, that the name “antiwork” is misleading, since ending work does not mean ending labour, though to most people it is practically synonymous, leading to confusions like yours.
Again, what do you think “ending work” means? A single person leaving a job and remaining unemployed?
A community with a goal at the societal level is indeed a social movement. You can’t get any clearer than that. Ever hear about “the great resignation”? Yeah, that was part of the antiwork movement.
Also, if you’re gonna reference the links on the sidebar, read them. This is from In Praise of Idleness:
Also, I really like this part from The Abolition of Work:
That’s not what this community is about. I think you want
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This community doesn’t have a goal at the societal level.
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Provide evidence. I’ve provided mine, which you simply ignored.
The description of the community seems evidence enough to me.
I don’t see evidence of anything. You’ve provided your opinions and asked lots of questions and presented some quotes. You haven’t shown that anything you’ve presented is related to this community. For example, the community description makes no mention of a “movement” and yet you assert that this community is about a social movement.
Not at all. What about it proves this community has nothing to do with work? You’ve proved you can copy and paste, but not that you can read and understand what is written.
Okay, you really have to be trolling, or else you clearly have never been in a debate before. I didn’t “provide opinions”. I interpreted the quote you pasted without engaging with. I highlighted the sections that were relevant and drew out rhetorical questions (have you never heard of them before?) to make you consider what it means.
“Presented some quotes”. Don’t make me laugh. Those quotes aren’t random bullshit. The very first one was an essay you yourself highlighted - at least, you looked at its title. I read through it and found that it directly contradict your assumptions about it. This is called research, and you should get better at it if you want to take part in any debates.
Excuse me? Those quotes come from links directly in the sidebar. Did you only glance at my comment? I see no other reason for you to have missed where I stated what exactly those quotes were, and where they were from. They couldn’t be any more obviously relevant. Again - the first quote comes from an essay you mentioned.
It is literally named “antiwork”. Antiwork is a movement.
I haven’t asserted that this community has nothing to do with work.
Firstly, that article uses a hyphen, “anti-work”, which is not strictly the same as either the name of this community or the word you used in your link to the article.
Secondly, “antiwork” is a generic latin word. Just because this community is named using the same generic latin word as something else, doesn’t imply that the two are directly related.
Lastly, even assuming for the sake of argument a movement called “antiwork”, you still haven’t shown that this community is about that movement. There is no mention of a “movement” in the community description and you have shown no connection. This community is not mentioned in the article you linked to.