In this special worker solidarity livestream recorded on February 15, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with workers involved in the ongoing unionization struggles and strikes at Warrior Met Coal, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Medieval Times, Temple University, and Hastings Schools food service, including Haeden Wright, president of UMWA Auxiliary Locals 2368 and 2245; Bob Batz Jr., interim editor at Pittsburgh Union Progress; Erin Zapcic, union steward for Medieval Times Performers United Buena Park; Austin Martin with the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA); and Laurie Potthoff, a cook at Hastings High School in Minnesota.
2022 was a year of intense labor struggle, and that struggle has very much carried over into 2023. If we want to see the labor movement grow, we need to be there for workers when it counts the most, and we need to do whatever we can to make sure they win their fights.
To read the transcript, click here: https://therealnews.com/striking-workers-need-our-help-to-keep-fighting-in-2023
Links to strike/hardship funds:
– UMWA strike fund: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund
– Strike pantry fund for Warrior Met Coal strikers: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/UMWAStrikePantry
– Support Striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Workers: https://cwa-union.org/support-striking-pittsburgh-post-gazette-workers
– SEIU Local 284 petition: https://act.seiu.org/a/isd200-fair-contract-now
-SEIU Local 284 strike fund: https://act.seiu.org/a/isd200-fair-contract-now
– Medieval Times Performers United, Buena Park, strike fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-show-cast-and-knights-at-medieval-times
– Temple University Graduate Students Association strike fund: https://tugsa.betterworld.org/campaigns/tugsa-strike-fund
** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) **
Dang, Max. You're breakin' my heart in a good way here. <3 Eddie, thanks for being a light in this crazy world.
I’m new to this stuff, and didn’t know Eddie or his work, this is a BEAUTIFUL eulogy
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In the 90's, Walker TX RANGER kicked some ass at the Medieval Times on Stemmons Frwy in Dallas
Commie fg8
Eddie!! I barely survived 9 months intact can't imagine 44 years
Rip 🙏 Mr. Conway, many condolences to his family and friends and all those that loved him. We thank him for his example.
🙏❤️ STRIKERS, stay united.
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Long live the real news network
Rest in Peace Warrior 🙏!!!
Excellent show and a beautiful tribute to Eddie (rest in peace).
RIP EDDIE MUCH LOVE
Fighting for better wages, health care, pensions, working conditions. Is everything they middle case needs to survive.
Rest easy Eddie, paradise welcomes you with open arms. God bless.
College is a privilege not a right. We need to fix public education before worrying about something that is a choice. If you don'tike the pay use your power to boycott. All your doing is driving the cost up and that doesn't benefit the students. Pin your pay to the top by a percentage so no one gets left behind.
You forgot to say yawl are communists.
I'll start supporting worker strikes when the workers are interested in the politics outside of their own lives. If you only come out when your personal American fantasy is threatened you are no better than elites who only care about themselves too. If you think coming out to vote a Democrat or republican into office every few years is being political you know absolutely nothing. Until there are wider coalitions whove banned together this is all just selfish-striking and I dont care if they get what they need or are replaced by scabs. Be a Leftist and I'll support you.
Did RR union derail train in ohio
That's wonderful… So, what will you tell those workers when automation and mass mechanization upend their livelihoods?
You know, similar to how offshoring destroyed the lives of factory workers decades ago. You guys have no idea what the corporations are capable of.
Move to Russia, join a commie commune … lol