BREAKING: Landmark ruling! A federal labor law judge has ruled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's comments to CNBC and the Bloomberg Technology Summit violated the National Labor Relations Act, securing a major win for workers' rights!
#LaborRights
#WorkersUnited
🚨 Today, Amazon joined Trader Joe’s and Space X in seeking to declare
@NLRB
and NLRA unconstitutional.
This is a direct attack on the American Labor movement and workers' rights.
#UnionStrong
, let's fight back against the billionaires trying to destroy us. 💪
#WorkersRights
Breaking News: In a historic move, Trader Joe's workers in Chicago filed for unionization with Trader Joe's United, a milestone that could lead to the first unionized Trader Joe's store in Chicago and the fifth nationwide.
Yesterday,
@amazonlabor
achieved a major legal victory against the e-commerce giant after
@NLRBGC
concluded Amazon unlawfully discharged Pat Cioffi, a Lead Organizer at the JFK8 warehouse. The NLRBGC will be filing a complaint against Amazon in the coming weeks. 🧵
@mkraju
In other words thousands of Americans would be alive today if the Trump administration had competently followed Dr. Fauci’s recommendations in February to implement social distancing and shut down non-essential services.
John Ring as soon as you return to your union-busting law firm Morgan Lewis please call me so we can schedule Trader Joe’s negotiations during January 2023 which your colleague Nichole Buffalano, Esq. unlawfully cancelled. 👀forward to seeing you in Minneapolis.
@TraderJoesUnite
🚨 BREAKING: Major legal cases involving SpaceX & Trader Joe's are causing a stir. In a lengthy thread, I'll explain why these developments could be the greatest legal threat in labor history. Stay tuned for the details.
#SpaceX
#TraderJoes
#LaborLaw
#BreakingNews
Today,
@NLRB
@NLRBGC
rejected
@amazon
motion to block
@amazonlabor
election at ALB1 in Schodack NY.
Congrats Amazon workers you now have the opportunity to vote and join ALU.
.
@amazon
is scheming to appeal .
@amazonlabor
union vote to Supreme Court. Their goal is to get the right-wing Court to restore Lochner, throw out ALU election victory, and overturn the National Labor Relations Act.
‼️The
@NLRB
has ordered
#Amazon
to turn over information regarding their unlawful investigation of ALU organizers Connor Spence and Derrick Palmer.‼️ This is a major victory for workers' rights!
#workersrights
#unionrights
Trader Joe’s hired union-busting Nichole Buffalano, Esq., Partner at Morgan Lewis, for contract negotiations
@TraderJoesUnite
scheduled for December 14 and 15 in Minneapolis.
See webinar where Ms. Buffalano explains her union-busting strategy. 🧵
This is a major milestone for unions in the south. Tonight’s victory
@TraderJoesUnite
in Louisville a huge step forward for workers' rights and will help to ensure that workers in the region have access to the same protections and benefits as those in other parts of the country.
📣 The Amazon Labor Union DEMANDS Amazon recognize + bargain with the Union 📣
The workers at JFK8 🗳 AND the Federal government have spoken in ordering Amazon 🤡 to recognize the ALU ✊
ALU is determined to get a bargaining order!
Read our open letter to their attorneys… 👀
Disgusting! Trader Joe's is trying to deny workers in Louisville their right to a fair and democratic process by objecting to the election results in favor of Trader Joe's United. This is a violation of their
#UnionRights
and must be stopped.🧵
Trader Joe’s has challenged the results of a union election in Louisville KY last week in which
@TraderJoesUnite
prevailed 48-36. The company claims supporters illegally pressured workers to vote for the union.
This will lead to a hearing and put the results on ice for months.
‼️ BREAKING NEWS‼️
.
@NLRBGC
found
@Amazon
violated federal law by restricting employee access to the break room and other non-work areas before and after work hours.
A huge victory for Amazon workers nationwide!!
#AmazonWorkersWin
#AmazonUnion
#NLRBGC
@jeremycorbyn
I’m Jewish and pro Israel but disagree with Likud government treatment of Palestinians. Thank you Jeremy Corbyn for speaking truth to power. Vote Labor!,
@JoeNBC
My favorite Gatsby quote and relevant to our nations dark days:
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness...”
🤪 Trader Joe’s attorney
@MLWorkforce
arrived at
@TraderJoesUnited
, our first contract negotiation session, unprepared and empty handed.
Although, this union-busting Morgan Lewis attorney did spend ⏰ surveilling our Smith College intern.
@Shut_downAmazon
has a legal right to solicit at ALB1
@amazon
. However, Amazon’s Loss Prevention Department 🤡 is violating federal labor law demanding he leave the parking lot. (See video)
Chris and Heather are standing their ground. Please support
@amazonlabor
and retweet.
BREAKING: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.
The law bans companies like Amazon from implementing unreasonably demanding quotas that lead to serious injuries and unfair firings.
It was a major priority of
@amazonlabor
&
@jessicaramos
.
📰 Amazon 🤡 is now being ordered by the federal court to do an actual reading today. Each reading session is two hours long.
The area managers are reading it word by word. Two board agents are there overseeing it.
See attached Company text.
@votevets
@AmyBerz
@realDonaldTrump
you woke to soldiers wounded in Afg, death of sailors but tweet of "witch hunts" and Rasmussen polls. Have you no decency?
📰 .
@amazonlabor
issued a demand today to the Office of Labor-Management Standards
@USDOL
for an investigation into Amazon and its union-busting law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth on the grounds that they are violating of the LMRDA.
Trader Joe's claims to be just "good lawyering" against NLRA constitutionality but actions speak louder than words. Refusing to acknowledge its legitimacy in Oakland contract negotiations shows their true colors.
American workers won't go back to 1920.
@MorganLewisLaw
Solidarity to everyone at Teamsters Local 202 who are taking a stand for fair pay and protecting labor standards at Hunts Point. Workers must be respected.
@Kel_MoonFace
@TopherSpiro
I argue that as Senator they represent our nation. I kept staffer on for fifteen minutes questioning his principles. It was effective.
If Twitter unionize you’ll have a legal right bargain over working conditions and severance. Also, the Union can argue that layoff should be frozen so you have the opportunity to bargain over impact.
Hey Trader Joe’s stop following the lead of Amazon and Starbucks and bargain with respect! Yesterday, you walked out of negotiations in Hadley Mass and wasted the time of
@TraderJoesUnite
's bargaining committee - show some respect and come back to the negotiating table!
‼️BREAKING ALU NEWS‼️
ONT8 in Moreno Valley, CA filed for their election 🗳 TODAY with the ALU
@amazonlabor
🎉
Organizers across the country are talking to their fellow workers to fight for and hope for a better tomorrow for working people.
Here’s their petition… 🌊 ✊ 🌊 🎉
🔊‼️AMAZON ALB1 EMPLOYEE SPEAKS OUT‼️🔊
Quinton talks about how Amazon🤡 is using captive audience meetings to mislead and LIE to workers about the ALU and its mission. Only 12 DAYS until the ALB1 election and Amazon🤡 is the biggest MONSTER 🧟♂️this October
The progressive tech/non-profit organization Code for America Labs, Inc. should not use the same illegal bad faith bargaining tactics as Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's. We must respect worker rights and
#EndUnionBusting
and
#ProtectWorkers
.
#progressivenonprofit
👇🏽👇🏽
‼️ALU’S DEMANDS TO AMAZON‼️
Amazon🤡 has FAILED to acknowledge Union demands 📣 for information and bargaining over unlawful discharges of workers. Amazon🤡 brazenly continues to indefinitely suspend ~80 workers👿 that support the ALU and are now minimizing the vile fire at JFK8
‼️Wtf, Heather Goodall, lead organizer at ALB1, was subjected to a disciplinary investigation for allegedly violating Standards of Conduct on 8/25, by Amazon 🤡 for saying to another employee, “Heather has a lot of good things to say.”‼️🤣
See audio
Starbucks has joined Amazon, Trader Joe’s, Space X in moving to attack the NLRB and NLRA . They can’t defeat us in organizing and now they have moved to destroy the American Labor movement.
Join
@TraderJoesUnite
and
@amazon
-labor and fight back!
On Friday, at a post-hearing brief in a case before NLRB Associate Chief Administrative Law Judge Elanor Laws, Starbucks attorneys joined Trader Joe's, Amazon, and SpaceX in arguing the NLRB is unconstitutional as the companies fight labor law violations at the NLRB
Today,
@NLRBGC
@NLRB
found merit in the
@amazonlabor
charge that Amazon violated federal labor law by unlawfully subpoenaing union organizers during the union election objection hearing. In a historic move, the board is ordering Amazon to pay attorney fees.
#UnionRights
.
@NLRBGC
announced that it will issue a complaint against Amazon for unlawfully suspending ALU organizer Brett Daniels for engaging in protected concerted activity in response to concerns over worker safety conditions arising out of the fire in Amazon’s JFK8 in October 2022. 🧵
Enough with the legal jargon, Amazon, Trader Joe's, and Space X. Your attempt to deem
@NLRB
and NLRA unconstitutional is a load of BS.
Shame on
@MorganLewisLaw
for doing your dirty work.
This is just a blatant attack on the labor movement for their success in organizing.
🚨Breaking News:
Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, looks like he may be in trouble regarding his anti-union statements made in public interviews. The case has been forwarded to the NLRB’s Division of Advice, which will assess whether Jassy’s statements were unlawfully coercive🧵 watch ⬇️
Who would've known the
@ACLU
, known for supporting workers and unions, is now teaming up with big corporations like SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe's, and Starbucks to dismantle the
@NLRB
? 🤔
#irony
#workersrights
#collaborationfail
🤦♀️
Amazon (a company known for working people to their deaths in many cases) subjects their employees to horrendously hazardous working conditions.
This is a thread of on-the-job injuries, all suffered by ONE single Amazon employee
🧵1/9
Congratulations to the Wesleyan University RAs for making history by successfully negotiating and unanimously ratifying the first private undergraduate RA collective bargaining agreement.
Recently, Local 153, OPEIU has unionized RAs at Barnard College and Tufts University.
🚨Inside look at Amazon’s ALB1 union-busting headquarters🚨
This is where anti-union consultants (who each get paid thousands of dollars daily by Amazon) strategize about how to kill the
@amazonlabor
movement. These consultants dress like workers in attempt to not stand out 🧵
‼️Amazon 🤡 why did you indefinitely suspend at least eighty workers for not returning to work
after Amazon Manager Mike Tanelli said to these same workers, “If you feel unsafe, please leave. Your time will be addressed.”‼️
We demand you return these workers back to work now!
Trader Joe’s Deputy General Counsel has repeatedly blamed me for spreading hysteria among their customers. Sorry, but maybe if TJ’s didn’t partner with SpaceX to push the courts to declare NLRA unconstitutional, their brand wouldn't be in the toilet.
“This is a national cease and desist order," Goldstein explained. "That means that wherever in the country they violate it, theoretically the National Labor Relations Board can immediately seek a contempt of court order.”
I am proud to share that I’m starting a new position as Partner at the law firm of Julian, Mirer & Singla, A Working People’s Law Center.
I will be continuing fighting for worker human rights.
Today,
@TraderJoesUnite
in Louisville, Kentucky, filed labor charges against Trader Joe’s for unlawfully discharging and taking disciplinary action against employees engaging in legally protected concerted activity in support of the union. 🧵
Pictures of Bradley Moss, Union Buster, President Eastern Division of The Burke Group
@amazon
. He’s working for the company at JFK8, SI Fufillment Center, and has been engaging in racist behavior, calling Christian Smalls a thug. Why doesn’t Amazon fire him?
Meet Matthew Harpur, union busting attorney
@MorganLewisLaw
who's determined to declare
@NLRB
and NLRA unconstitutional in the SpaceX case. His billing of 600 hrs, $600k in fees & the firm's 1600 hrs, $2.4M shows just how much they'll do to crush workers' rights.
Fight back!
Amazon has hired Trey Kovacs, a former Special Assistant at the US Department of Labor, as a union-busting consultant.
Kovacs has been holding captive audience meetings at ONT8 in Moreno Valley, California since April 2022. 🧵
#UnionBusting
#Amazon
#Kovacs
#LaborRights
Wow, former
@NLRB
Chairman John Ring and former Board member Harry I. Johnson III teaming up with
@elonmusk
and Space X to challenge the constitutionality of the NLRB and NLRA. The Trump administration's Board leadership is working with billionaires to undermine workers' rights.
Amazon unlawfully fired Pasquale “Pat” Cioffi, an employee at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island who the Company claimed flipped 500 votes from “no” to “yes” in the weeks leading up to the ALU’s victory there.
‼️ Judge orders Amazon 🤡 to 🛑 STOP ✋ discharging workers for engaging in protected collective activity and from interfering with workers’ rights to collective action ‼️
📣 This is a NATIONAL cease-and-desist order
Outraged!
@NLRB
is failing to uphold the National Labor Relations Act by denying the public their right to observe the
#TraderJoes
Region 9 Objection Hearing. This is a violation of Section 7 Rights, and needs to be addressed!
#NoRightToObserve
#HearingOfficer
#10
:10am
@0Calamity
@IanAustinMP
Ridiculous but not unexpected right wing manufactures false claims about Jeremy Corbyn. I’m proudly Jewish, pro-Israel, and if I lived in UK I’d vote Labour and Jeremy Corbyn. We need change for our childrens’ future.
.
@TuftsRAUnion
deserves our unwavering support. It is unacceptable
@TuftsUniversity
is not bargaining in good faith with their workers. We must stand in solidarity to ensure that their union-busting tactics are not successful and future union undergraduate organizing succeeds.
In a stunning bait-and-switch, Tufts administration agreed to meet for a bargaining session this morning in which they refused to make any response to our compensation demands.
.
@AIL_NILICO
defines itself by its supposed support of the US labor movement. Yet heres a complaint filed in state court today against it by a worker alleging repeated sexual assault & rape in the workplace. This isn't the only case & AIL keeps hiring union-busting
@Littler
.
.
@SecMartyWalsh
tenure with
@USDOL
has been a huge disappointment for our labor movement. There has been no significant regulatory change or revisions to the union-busting persuader rules, or in the overtime exemption, leaving workers without meaningful protections or rights. 🧵