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UAW (self.florida)

submitted 7 months ago by Filthmontane to c/florida

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I work with the UAW and I'm reaching out to anyone in the St. Pete or greater Tampa Bay area about organizing your workplace. If you're unhappy with your wages, hours, or working conditions; please reach out. I would love to help organize your workplace. I've lived in Pinellas county my entire life and working class people are being priced out of their homes here. With the rising cost of living, we need to band together to demand better wages and force our employers to pay us what we're worth. Lets bring the labor movement down to St. Pete and stop job hopping from one sweat shop to another. I don't care what industry you work in, I just want to help you organize. United we bargain, divided we beg.

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[–] oopy_soup 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would love to unionize but the moment management hears about it then you've got a target on your back. Florida is a right to work state and workplaces really don't seem to care about unions.

[–] Filthmontane 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, there's definitely a risk. The UAW is currently organizing Mercedes in Alabama and Volkswagen in Tennessee. They're union busting like crazy and a couple people have been fired. But the UAW has excellent lawyers and they'll fight like hell to get your job back with back pay. Typically they only fire one or two people when that happens. So it's important to understand when organizing in right to work what the risks are. That's why you don't tell the boss you're organizing until you already have a good chunk of your coworkers on board. They're more likely to fire one loud organizer than 50 quiet ones. Once 10% of a workplace signs union cards, it's a lot harder to fire people and get away with it. But if your job sucks enough to want a union, would it really be so bad to have to get another job?