#prounion

[tuttle-did-it]

A few numbers for you...

Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor, made $308.2 MILLION. in ONE YEAR. David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery, made $246.6 MILLION in ONE year. Andy Jassy, CEO Amazon, 212.7 MILLION in one year. Bob Iger, Disney, 45.9 MILLION in one year. Tom Rutledge, Charter, 41.9 MLLION Reed Hastings, Netflix, 40.8 MILLION in one year, down 6% from last year. Ted Sarandos, Netflix, 38.2 MILLION, down 3% from last year. Brian Roberts, Comcast, 34 MILLION for the year. Bob Chapek, 32.5 MILLION for the year, 32.5 MILLION. John Stankey, AT&T, 24.8 MILLION for the year. Jeff Shell, NBC Universal, 21.6 MILLION per year. Bob Bakish, Paramount, 20 MILLION- down 49% from last year.

These streaming channels are making BILLIONS. But actors and writers are getting literal pennies in residuals.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-ceo-pay-the-year-of-the-nine-figure-club-1235136814/

[chucklevoodoolord]

Protect your rights.

happy Labor Day

[gwyllmllwydd]

No Union Busting Like Psychedelic Union Busting, Eh Paul Stamets? https://www.thestand.org/2024/05/fungi-perfecti-workers-joining-together-with-liuna-252/ We will never buy your products again until your people are allowed to organize.

[iwan-out]

where the fuck is the damn the defiant (1962) fandom. am i on the maritime freaks website or not

[froggos-chaos-corner]

Haha more Blueberry’s stuff

Uh Carlo before the fire

plus uh the night of the fire

Oh i love them!!!!

[hottestthingalive]

thinking about rose tyler again… she is just so so so special to me

[frida--y]

Go-Busters ep. 36 | Mission 36: Go-Buster Li-Oh, Ba-shoom!

[auselysium]

LOOK

I am SO here for The Idea of You. Because we're getting Nick with tattoos and singing.

But I'm just going to be cranky for one minute because this film, will get all the promo, probably a big splashy premiere party, we'll get all the pretty pictures with Nick and Anne.

And I'm 100% prounion (Like I'm literally a union member!) and I am so proud of the strike etcetc but FUCK THE STRIKE we were ROBBED. *sobs for days*

[ridenwithbiden]

The 1st President In American History To Join Workers On Strike. #PresidentBiden urges striking auto workers to ‘stick with it’ in picket line visit unparalleled in history. #ProUnion #UnionYes

[goku20193]

#USConstitution #FreeMen #ForDummies #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #SlaveMasters #AmericanCivilWarForDummies #Confederates #BattleOfGettysburg #ProConfederate #Slavery #ConservativeDemocrats #CivilWarBattles #Slaves #DemocratParty #Secession #AmericanCivilWar #Racism #AbrahamLincoln #ConfederateStatesOfAmerica #LiberalRepublicans #Abolitionists #CivilWarCombat #KeithDDickson #BattleOfFortSumter #Secessionists #ProUnion #RobertELee #JeffersonDavis #RepublicanParty #BattleCryOfFreedom https://www.instagram.com/p/ClShI5fLj6vTGGYqM_SelNUcVKwYMnO_xPR_sI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[aubreysilver]

This is great news, I’m glad UPS workers were successful. I just wanted to add that please remember that if UPS uses this to raise prices on customers, it’s not because of the unionized workers, it’s because they refuse to make less profits after being forced to pay their workers fairly. 

UPS has reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to avert a strike. These are the highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 agreement:

Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.

Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.

General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract — and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.

Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.

Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.

New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.

All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.

Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.

All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.

No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.

UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.

The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.

More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement — more than any other time in Teamsters history — and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.

Unions work, unionize.

[bluecollarboneyard]

Another day, another dollar.

#unionize

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[socialmedia-recruitment]

#RecruiterHumor #HRHumor #StaffingHumor #RecruiterJokes #recruitmentjokes_onyou😂😂 #recruitmentjokes #smo4hr #humanatek #laborhumor #laborjokes #dol #unionize #prounion https://www.instagram.com/p/CkbZGj_PRswuk66w9fER8_GtcsH6wvklfLpKrk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tat2luvgirl]

#prounion https://www.instagram.com/p/CigeKxVpMgb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tuttle-did-it]

If the network/streaming site/production company/actors continue to make money on a show after it's aired once, why shouldn't a writer? Writers deserve to make money if something they created continues to make money years later.

And 'REAL work??' fuck them for saying this - there would be NO show without writers.

Fuck scabs. Fuck that anon commentator.

Nobody is making anyone go into scriptwriting. No one is born in a Netflix company town where their dad takes them into the script mines at age 12. Fuck writers who want to get paid more than once for the same job. They should only get residuals AFTER all the people who do REAL WORK, like construction, grips, costume, makeup & animators etc. Most of them are much better at their jobs than writers especially for streaming services, and they are what screenwriters can lean on & novelists can't.

People need to realize that the unions for white collar people like WGA or SIEU or NEA (public sector unions are why cops who kill the people they were supposed to serve & protect remain employed get pensions) is not the AFL-CIO or any other historical union fighting for the lives of the people who built the country's industry and made it run, any more than the NRA are the Minutemen of 1775 New England.

First, go fuck yourself, you fucking scab. No, seriously - you don't come to my blog and spout off about what workers deserve unions and decent pay and what ones don't, like it's your fucking decision. The intellectual labor that writers perform is just as real as any other work done on a film set - "all who labor by hand or brain" is the inherent logic of industrial unionism for a reason.

Second, writers aren't asking to get paid more than once: residuals are deferred pay, you absolute moron. In Hollywood, whether it's writers or actors or voice talent or whatever, you get a small fraction up front - it's usually an ok check, depending on the union's day rates and so forth, but you can't make a living off stitching these together - and then most of your pay comes from monthly royalty checks that provide you with the income you need to live off when you're between jobs.

The problem is that, historically in Hollywood, residuals have been structured with a very long "tail" - the payments start out relatively low and then get more generous over time as the show has more seasons and (presumably) goes into syndication. This doesn't work with streaming's new business model, where increasingly shows are getting 2-3 seasons max and streaming services have become increasingly quick to not just cancel shows but yank them off their servers in order to avoid paying residuals.

So what WGA writers are fighting for is a system that ensures writers (but also actors and other creative workers, because the unions pattern bargain) get a fair share of the show's revenue, even if the show is only given 2-3 seasons.

Third, the U.S labor movement would not exist today if it wasn't for white collar workers and public sector workers. About half of the U.S labor movement - 7 million workers - is public sector, and those workers are overwhelmingly women of color, mostly working as either teachers or postal workers. Likewise, about half the U.S labor movement is made up of white collar workers, and we're graduate students and adjuncts and lab researchers, teachers and social workers, administrators and IT departments.

I'm both public sector and white collar, and I'm a member of an NEA union. I'm an adjunct professor who earns $6,000 a course and it's my job to get working adults with jobs and families who've never gone to college or who've been out of higher ed for a decade to graduate with a bachelor's or a master's. If you don't think that's real work, you're free to research and write all the lectures and powerpoints, deliver those in an entertaining and educational fashion, answer a flood of questions from students who need help navigating academia, and then grade all the midterms and finals and research papers.