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Hortensis

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7. 276 workers so far are in this and have filed to form an independent union,

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2022, 04:25 AM

Sep 2022

rather than joining one of 3 large existing ones. Employers can ban union organizing in stores and have had the assistance of many union-busting laws since the Reagan days, courtesy of the Republicans and those they serve of course. Maybe that has something to do with going this direction, or?

House Democrats passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) a couple years ago, but we failed to get the needed majority in the senate.

Go, HD employees!

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WORKERS PLAN TO RENOVATE HOME DEPOT WITH A UNION [View all] Donkees Sep 2022 OP

Yeeehaaaaaa.... GO UNIONS GO. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 a kennedy Sep 2022 #1

+1 llmart Sep 2022 #2

Good! The Home Depot founder is a far RW nut job. Maybe he'll stroke out PortTack Sep 2022 #3

or found to be intricated, comproised, in the trump mess. empedocles Sep 2022 #4

HA! GOOD. I hate Home Despot's right-wing politics. n/t CousinIT Sep 2022 #5

It's about time that American workers re-discover the balance of power that Unions bring. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #6

276 workers so far are in this and have filed to form an independent union, Hortensis Sep 2022 #7

And the scale of the Amazon Labor Union's victory in Staten Island gave Quiles hope: Donkees Sep 2022 #8