UAW president Shawn Fain: "I truly find it pathetic when I hear Trump—a scab—talk about how he's going to bring back the auto industry and bring it back fast. When he was president, he didn't do a damn thing to help the auto industry. Plants were closing and left this country, and he did nothing to help it.”
  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    70·
    4 months ago

    The teamsters president is playing political games. They only want the PRO act. It wasn’t happening with only lukewarm democratic support, so by getting the Republican party to cheer about being “pro-labor” at the televised RNC, it pressures Democrats to chase the ball. Don’t believe me? Well it worked. Democrats were demanding a vote on the PRO act the next week.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, is a proposed United States law that would amend previous labor laws such as the National Labor Relations Act for the purpose of expanding "various labor protections related to employees’ rights to organize and collectively bargain in the workplace.” The measure would prevent employers from holding mandatory meetings for the purpose of counteracting labor organization, and would strengthen the legal right of employees to join a labor union. The bill would also permit labor unions to encourage secondary strikes. The PRO Act would weaken “right-to-work” laws, which exist in 27 U.S. states. It would allow the National Labor Relations Board to fine employers for violations of labor law, and would provide compensation to employees involved in such cases.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      I’m a Teamster (school bus driver, so we’re exempted from having to go break anybody’s knees at midnight) and the vast majority of my coworkers are trumpers, unfortunately. The Teamster prez may just be pandering to his own organization.

    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
      71·
      4 months ago

      What exactly did that accomplish? Republicans are still going to filibuster it in the Senate and Johnson probably won’t even let it come to a vote in the House.