Bob Funk
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Bob Funk
@bobfunk.bsky.social
Fighting for working people.
LaborLab.us founder.
Don’t f**k with firefighters.
September 2, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Reposted by Bob Funk
Donald Trump was a union buster that repeatedly hired non-union labor for his businesses and refused to pay his contractors.

Be on the side of labor on Labor Day and every other day — and especially on Election Day.
September 1, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Workers are petitioning for more elections for union representation — and winning more of them – than any other year in a decade.
More Workers Are Filing For — and Winning – Union Elections Than in Any Year in the Past Decade
A surge in union activity since the COVID-19 lockdown shows no signs of stopping, though it’s still not enough to reverse the two-decade downward trend in union membership in New York and across the…
buff.ly
August 31, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Off to Chicago to talk to some badass union organizers ✊
August 27, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Heading out to knock some doors and talk to some fellow union members.
August 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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"Following an exhaustive analysis of corporate and labor relations consultants, LaborLab found that an alarmingly high number of corporations and labor consultants are concealing the extent of spending on activities opposing workers’ right to organize."
laborlab.us/report-olms-...
REPORT: OLMS Must Devote More Resources To Addressing Employer and “Persuader” Non-Compliance with Disclosure Laws - LaborLab
LaborLab’s August 2024 report reveals a shocking number of employers and labor consultants are continuing to evade disclosure laws, hiding millions spent to prevent workers from organizing. The Labor-...
laborlab.us
August 21, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Corporations in at least 2⃣1⃣ states are HIDING how much they spent ATTACKING the right of their employees to organize in 2023 🗓️.

AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NV, NJ, NY, NC, ND, NH, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, and WA. 📌
August 19, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Reposted by Bob Funk
The following companies were added to our Union-Buster Tracker last week:

🤬Sapporo-Stone Brewing
🤬Universal Logistics
🤬Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, LLC
🤬Sixt Rent A Car, LLC
🤬Honeybee Food Corporation DBA Jollibee
🤬Sibelco
🤬Mauser Packaging Solutions
🤬Escalante Concrete
🤬Clean Earth
August 19, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Reposted by Bob Funk
Thousands of people chanting "Trump's a scab" at the DNC I'm losing my mind.
August 20, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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in 2023, about 76,808 workers won a certification in a single-union election through the NLRB. that's more than in any year back to 1980.

there still is not enough new organizing, but, by this measure, organizing is at its highest in 43 years.

observablehq.com/@fgregg/impr...
Improving Success of Individual Certification Petitions at the NLRB
Despite an overall decline in NLRB petitions and certifications, the chance that an individual certification petition will result in a union being certified as a workers' representative has gotten muc...
observablehq.com
August 20, 2024 at 1:33 AM
"Justice is achievable. And our best days are not behind us — they're before us. Now, it's summer. The winter has passed. And with a grateful heart, I stand before you now on this August night to report that democracy has prevailed. Democracy has delivered. And now, democracy must be preserved."
August 20, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Reposted by Bob Funk
And the first entry in LaborLab's 2024 Union-Busting Tracker is ... 🥁🥁🥁 ...
January 6, 2024 at 6:45 AM