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Really great thread contextualizing current negotiations between DSA workers and the DSA NPC. Bottom line: in these negotiations, the DSA staff union is acting like a normal union facing layoffs and the NPC majority is acting like a boss trying to maximize managerial control.
Really great thread contextualizing current negotiations between DSA workers and the DSA NPC. Bottom line: in these negotiations, the DSA staff union is acting like a normal union facing layoffs and the NPC majority is acting like a boss trying to maximize managerial control.
Northeastern doubles down on their false statements about students at the Northeastern Liberation Zone. Demands a correction from Northeastern VP of Communications Renata Nyul! Call her at (617) 373-7424 Email her at [email protected] Disclose! Divest! Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Northeastern doubles down on their false statements about students at the Northeastern Liberation Zone. Demands a correction from Northeastern VP of Communications Renata Nyul! Call her at (617) 373-7424 Email her at [email protected] Disclose! Divest! Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@Northeastern Why are you lying? x.com/schock/status/…
@Northeastern Why are you lying? x.com/schock/status/…
I did hear "kill the Jews," said by a counter-protester holding an Israeli flag, seemingly as a provocative joke in response to the group's pro-Palestine chants. Not sure if that's the specific incident @Northeastern leadership is referring to
I did hear "kill the Jews," said by a counter-protester holding an Israeli flag, seemingly as a provocative joke in response to the group's pro-Palestine chants. Not sure if that's the specific incident @Northeastern leadership is referring to https://t.co/of22n8a4MK
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Thanks to heroic fundraising and difficult cuts, DSA is already below its deficit goal this year. We can find a compromise that balances the budget, but the NPC must be willing to negotiate. Show solidarity by joining the DSA Union call on 4/29 @ 8pm EST bit.ly/npcmou
Thanks to heroic fundraising and difficult cuts, DSA is already below its deficit goal this year. We can find a compromise that balances the budget, but the NPC must be willing to negotiate. Show solidarity by joining the DSA Union call on 4/29 @ 8pm EST bit.ly/npcmou
Jane is right: winning matters most. There are no shortcuts to transforming our society, & no rewards for sitting on the sidelines. Mass politics are full of contradictions, but the alternative is irrelevance. Jane has given so many the courage to win — we’re forever grateful.
Jane is right: winning matters most. There are no shortcuts to transforming our society, & no rewards for sitting on the sidelines. Mass politics are full of contradictions, but the alternative is irrelevance. Jane has given so many the courage to win — we’re forever grateful.
We received an offer to meet with them to discuss the MOU so we’ve asked them to meet with us on Monday 4/29 at 8 PM EST. We would like to invite DSA members to this call. RSVP Here: bit.ly/npcmou
We opened meetings to members and held closed meetings so that they could speak frankly after they refused to speak in front of members. We held an informal meeting to let them know we would respond accordingly if they did not attempt to negotiate. We have reached that point.
This MOU is an insult. It is a final expression of the NPC board’s contempt toward our contract and disregard for the legal negotiation process. We communicated very clearly that we wanted to negotiate.
- Included a provision that the Union will not restrict the right of DSA to impose any future layoffs, which would make our employment at-will. -Included a provision that the Union will withdraw all grievances & forfeit the right to contest any currently pending layoffs
In their MOU, they: •Changed the intent of the MOU to “resolve a pending dispute and grievance” but failed to address any of our grievances. •Imposed an imminent deadline to volunteer for layoffs with severance in order to pressure us to give up negotiations.
The NPC board responded by offering an insulting MOU earlier this week. Not only did they fail to address our grievances, they regressed on much of their original language and stated that they “do not intend to bargain the number of layoffs.” Their MOU: docs.google.com/document/d/1Vm…
We are willing to compromise. We’ve offered the NPC 2 staff to lay off in addition to the 7 folks who have already left during just this NPC term. This totals more than half a million dollars of additional savings beyond the NPC’s deficit goals. Our MOU: docs.google.com/document/d/1vb…
I wanted to give a big thankyou to @DSAWorkingMass Without their reporting, it is likely we never would have seen the violence Mayor Wu and the BPD unleashed on students I only arrived after seeing their updates. Keep up the amazing work and give them a follow. #bospoli #mapoli
Just so everyone is clear, the Governor of Texas announces he ordered the protestors at the public university arrested because he is discriminating against their viewpoint, and the police confirm they acted at his instance.
So proud of the work @DSAWorkingMass journalists did last night documenting the shameful police attacks on Emerson students protesting genocide. Working Mass is a collaboration of MA @DemSocialists chapters and they put their bodies on the line to show the world what happened
Really wonderful short thread of organizing advice
2) Marginalization is a bigger threat than co-optation - it’s better to make something worth stealing than to be ignored. 3) Focus - Do not get distracted with interpersonal turmoil that may have preceded this moment. Focus on our goal, not the individuals helping us get there
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Jonathan Melrod @JonathanMelrod
2K Followers 3K Following Author of #FightingTimes, Revolutionary Labor Militant, International Human Rights lawyer, Retired legal counsel for victims of police assasination & brutality"Good faith" is a term often thrown around in DSA, in my experience, often with imprecise meaning. In this context, there's a clear definition: bargaining with the sincere intent of coming to an agreement.
This requires movement, as well. Case law establishes that "take it or leave it" offers are bad faith bargaining (among other things). "Surface bargaining," or attempting to make the appearance of bargaining without substantive movement, is also bad faith bargaining.
Bargaining in bad faith is an unfair labor practice and is illegal under the NLRA, and opens the employer to board charges.
Based upon documentation of statements by NPC members, as well as the unclear and moving economic targets, the NPC has established a fact pattern that supports allegation of violations of the NLRA and would support a board charge with the NLRB.
This is all just naked fact, from a union perspective. I won't speculate on motive, because I genuinely don't care why they're doing it. But they are. It's really not debatable, it's just the fact pattern.
I'm sure some of them feel awful. I've dealt with employers that felt bad about what they were proposing. But it didn't stop them from doing it, and it didn't stop them from dismissing workable alternatives.
Now, for some editorializing, based on experience: Fiscal crises are often used by employers to engage in restructuring that can't be reduced fully to fiscal necessity.
Whatever the motivation, that appears to be the case here. There is a legitimate fiscal issue, though there's reasonable disagreement as to the extent (based largely on the lack of clear information or transparency from DSA).
However, there's also a desire to restructure the organization. So you have two goals: fiscal stability, and restructuring. And unstated desires regarding the latter explain uncertainty and inflexibility on the former.
Again: this is not interesting or unique. This is just standard employer behavior. They want to maximize control of their operations and their workforce, and unions seek to place frameworks for that control that protect workers.
My point in laying this all out is that from a union perspective, this is crystal clear. It's not unique, it's not somehow different, and it's not political. It's as routine as it gets.
The obligation, for people that support workers, is simple: demand that an employer negotiate in good faith with their employees, and support efforts to limit the impact on workers. That's it. It's easy.
I'm accepting space for reasonable disagreement on how that's achieved -- though again, the fuzziness seems created in part by an employer's refusal to actually be clear about fiscal targets and the overall financial situation.
There are going to be people that think this is factional. I really don't care. I can't even name who's on the NPC, what "factions" exist right now, and who belongs to what. Get a grip if you can't think about this issue outside those terms. (Fin)
But outside of that: everyone, no matter what political tendency, needs to shut the fuck up about their factional nonsense and take the caucus blinders the fuck off. This isn't about your pissing contests. It's about union values, and demanding that workers' rights are upheld.
That requires providing relevant economic information and working in good faith with the union to meet the employer's fiscal targets.
Employers have an obligation to bargain the impact of layoffs/RIFs, and the union has a right to provide alternatives that can help meet financial targets. Unions usually do so with the intent to limit layoffs, or soften the impact on laid off workers.
Now, here's the bigger picture in all this, from a negotiations standpoint.
I say this based upon my best judgment as someone who has written and negotiated contracts and MOUs: It is an accurate description from @DSA_union to call this insulting.
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