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🚨It's official––it's another #HotLaborSummer.
In honor of @SEIU721 LA workers on STRIKE today–
Here's info about some of the biggest labor fights this summer & ways you can support them:
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It's day 4 of @njgov #ExtremeHeat wave 🔥🥵
🌡️ The temp inside a warehouse can hit 100+ degrees in the summer.
💰But corporations are denying workers water, A/C and rest breaks.
💪Demand heat protections for workers in NJ!
➡️secure.everyaction.com/96M7L…
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'Dollars over human bodies' — Corporations are getting greedier, and they're using AI to do it (in partnership with @accountabletech)
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Hollywood unions fought to have a say in how AI is used in the writing process — but studios are still finding ways to undermine artists
(in partnership with @accountabletech)
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WATCH: Screenwriter @JonathanHurwitz shares how AI startup tools are taking over the responsibilities of writers and creatives, and taking the humanity out of the arts.
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TOMORROW: Join autoworkers, elected officials, and local labor leaders at 11am at the @Chrysler Corporate Parts Division 5141 Santa Ana St. in Ontario, CA #StandUpUAW #WGAstrong #1u
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💥TEAMSTERS RATIFY HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT
Today, #Teamsters voted by an overwhelming 86.3 percent to ratify the most historic collective bargaining agreement in the history of @UPS: teamster.org/2023/08/teamste…
#HotLaborSummer #1u ✊✊✊
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TUESDAY: In cities across the country, the labor
movement is coming together for a National Day of
Solidarity on August 22 for @sagaftra & @WGAEast
@WGAWest members ON STRIKE for a fair contract.
Find a picket line near you: actionnetwork.org/event_camp…
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Be inspired by our LA #SagAftraMembers' passion. 🌟💪Check out sagaftrastrike.org and JOIN a #SAGAFTRAstrike picket line TODAY!!
ALT Many members walk and pose on the SAG-AFTRA strike picket line while holding SAG-AFTRA on strike signs
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BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨
Hotel workers at the @HotelMayaDT Long Beach, @Lagunacliffs Marriott Dana Point, and @FairmontMiramar in Santa Monica are calling for a boycott because of management’s use or condoning of violence during the largest hotel strike in U.S. history!
Read more ⬇️ – at Los Angeles, CA
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💥11,500 WGA members who write and produce TV and films are on strike for a fair contract. Join us in supporting them:
📌Join a picket line in NYC or LA: wgacontract2023.org/strike/p…
📌Donate to support workers on strike: secure2.convio.net/afa/site/…
✊@WGAEast @WGAWest
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WE SHUT IT DOWN ⬇️
From the Harbor to the Valley, thousands of LA City workers walked off the job & hit the picket lines yesterday in a beautiful, energized, & infectiously joyful 24-hour ULP Strike calling for RESPECT. #SolidaritySummer #HotLaborSummer
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💥UNITE HERE 11 hotel & hospitality workers are striking all over Los Angeles. Support them:
📌Join a picket line in LA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
📌Adopt a picket line: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
📌Donate to their strike fund: unitehere11.org/donate-to-th…
✊@UNITEHERE11
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The @SBWorkersUnited Bus Tour has finally reached @Starbucks HQ!
It is time for Starbucks to stop stalling and come to the bargaining table with the 8,000+ baristas who have organized a union.
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We know that when we strike, we win.
We're standing with @seiu721 as they strike today! #SolidaritySummer – at Los Angeles, CA
ALT Fast food workers at the SEIU 721 strike at City Hall
ALT Fast food workers Unidos tshirt
This is what solidarity looks like. 11,000 on strike and thousands of workers from across sectors out here at Los Angeles City Hall with @seiu721 #SolidaritySummer
ALT Crowd pictures outside city hall
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"I considered quitting, but it felt like that would be abandoning my friends and coworkers. So, I resolved to make things better..." - Maya, Seattle @Starbucks worker
#StarbucksSolidarity
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Unionists & community supporters joined the @sbworkersunited bus tour in Seattle, dancing our way through 🔥Strike Place Market🔥 and celebrating worker organizing despite Starbucks’ illegal union busting.
Joy and justice go hand in hand! #StarbucksSolidarity
ALT Starbucks workers, supporters and sirens dancing in the market
ALT Supporters marching through pike place market
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The next generation of screenwriters made their voices heard at the WGAE Young Writers Picket. Seeing aspiring writers speak so passionately about the future of their careers is a great reminder of what we’re fighting for! #WGAstrike
Full vid: tiktok.com/t/ZT8L9XeeM/
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Today 11,000 Los Angeles City workers are ON STRIKE for the first time in more than 40 years.
Picket lines are up across the city.
Follow @seiu721 for updates #SolidaritySummer – at Los Angeles, CA