Checking the notes, these are mostly union employee….say, isn’t the point of a union to protect the employees? They’re apparently doing a poor job for all that money forceibly taken from employee paychecks….who are using BLM and the killing of George Floyd to agitate for their same old same old
Thousands to walk off job to protest racial inequality
Organizers of a national workers strike say tens of thousands are set to walk off the job Monday in more than two dozen U.S. cities to protest systemic racism and economic inequality that has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dubbed the “Strike for Black Lives,†labor unions, along with social and racial justice organizations from New York City to Los Angeles, will participate in a range of planned actions. Where work stoppages are not possible for a full day, participants will either picket during a lunch break or observe moments of silence to honor Black lives lost to police violence, organizers said.
“We are … building a country where Black lives matter in every aspect of society — including in the workplace,†said Ash-Lee Henderson, an organizer with the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of over 150 organizations that make up the Black Lives Matter movement.
“The Strike for Black Lives is a moment of reckoning for corporations that have long ignored the concerns of their Black workforce and denied them better working conditions, living wages and healthcare,†said Henderson, who is also co-executive director of the Tennessee-based Highlander Research and Education Center.
Among the strikers will be essential workers: nursing home employees, janitors and delivery men and women. Fast food, ride-share and airport workers are also expected to take part in planned events.
I’m not quite sure what this has to do with police reform, which was the entire point of all this, wasn’t it?
When the strike was announced on July 8, partnering unions included the Service Employees International Union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers and the Fight for $15 and a Union. Several more worker collectives have since joined, along with social and racial justice groups.
So, the same old same old groups.
In Manhattan, essential workers will gather outside of the Trump International Hotel to demand the Senate and President Donald Trump pass and sign the HEROES Act. The House-passed legislation provides protective equipment, essential pay and extended unemployment benefits to workers who have not had the option of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers said New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is expected to rally with workers.
And agitating in a political manner.
Strikers in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed on May 25, will include nursing home and airport workers demanding a $15-per-hour minimum wage, organizers said. In Missouri, participants will rally at McDonald’s locations in St. Louis and Ferguson, a key landmark in the protest movement sparked by the death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager who was killed by police in 2014. The Ferguson strikers will also march to a memorial site located on the spot where Brown was shot and killed.
“We want free money!!!!” Oh, and Michael Brown was shot for attacking a police officer multiple times. Even Obama’s DOJ said so.
Meanwhile, at least these people still have jobs. Lots of people don’t. Want more money? Get a better education. Learn to do your job better and get a raise and/or promotion. Get a better job elsewhere. That’s the way it works. And this is just another example of the continuation of the dilution of the original police reform message.
