Labor Reforms Presentation

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by Madison Feldman1 view·Updated May 9, 2022
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  1. Okay, so for the tactics and organization of labor reforms, uh,
  2. the first company I'm going to focus on is the Triangle shirtwaist factory.
  3. So
  4. in regards to the women who were employed at the Triangle shirtwaist factory,
  5. um, they tried to get what they wanted by striking and not working at the factory,
  6. which angered the two owners a lot.
  7. And a quote from Teresa Surber molecule says that it
  8. was not a woman's fancy that drove them to it,
  9. but an eruption of long smaller
  10. of a long smoldering volcano and overflow of suffering abuse and exhaustion.
  11. And to summarize that just means that they weren't asking for any sort of luxury.
  12. Um, employed women.
  13. They were just asking for common decency
  14. and respect and okay working conditions and
  15. which they did not get. And,
  16. and because this is their attempt at striking in order to
  17. obtain these better working conditions and higher pay was not successful.
  18. Um, because many of the women couldn't uphold the strike because they had to
  19. go back to work in order to make money for
  20. their families and get the bare essentials like food.
  21. So a Starbucks in hopeful New Jersey,
  22. the workers there tried to get what they wanted by creating a union
  23. and Sarah Merkle,
  24. a shift supervisor who organized the union states that
  25. attacked accused was it was an easy decision.
  26. It was,
  27. it was an easy decision and we kind of just started as a small organizing committee.
  28. Obviously we had to keep very quiet and secret at first,
  29. but we have little conversations with people
  30. and then from there it grew and we had a four day period where we,
  31. where we just did our entire
  32. card signing and then filed.
  33. In this attempt seemed to have worked because
  34. they had corporate representatives from Starbucks came into
  35. their shop almost daily ever since they filed.
  36. And
  37. this was so that they could talk to the workers of
  38. the Starbucks and hopeful and in order to address their concerns,
  39. so I would deem it successful because
  40. their concerns and issues were beginning to be addressed at a corporate level.
  41. And lastly,
  42. the organization that I'm going to focus on
  43. is amazon and specifically warehouse LBJ five.
  44. And the workers of this warehouse used tactics
  45. like in the quote managers started quarreling people,
  46. um, said Mitchell Israel, they start coming around, hey,
  47. we got a meeting in the back,
  48. The managers anywhere from 10 to 20 on a given day, don't tell the workers
  49. the meeting is about the Union.
  50. And
  51. another way that the union was starting to become created was
  52. because the lack of clarity shutting down the line
  53. and physically hurting workers toward the meeting location,
  54. let a lot of employees to just follow the crowd.
  55. And these tactics seem to work as well because
  56. the
  57. amazon,
  58. the corporate people of amazon had originally
  59. taken an aggressive approach towards um,
  60. the work.
  61. The workers at warehouse LBJ five as well as
  62. other amazon warehouses where there were employees unionizing,
  63. but at the specific warehouse,
  64. they started taking a less aggressive approach and
  65. there used to be mandatory meetings that would
  66. try and get the employee the employees to not
  67. or prevent unionizing and then they became optional.
  68. Okay, so for the critics and opposition of labor reforms,
  69. there are some types of groups and people who
  70. oppose the movement and first is the government,
  71. so
  72. the government deems unions as negative because in quotes,
  73. there are illegal organizations that conspire to disrupt
  74. commerce or harm employers.
  75. And
  76. the other quote says that union membership went
  77. through decades of decline to to sustain anti unions
  78. sediments and government policies endorsed on and passed on behalf of
  79. business interests for labor organizations that have continued to exist.
  80. Membership has become increasingly diverse
  81. and
  82. they oppose,
  83. so they oppose it because obviously it's not good for the
  84. government doesn't oppose it because it's not good for business,
  85. not good for capitalism at all.
  86. And they rationalize it by saying it's not good for employers.
  87. And
  88. and then a more specific company that opposes the movement is large companies.
  89. For example, amazon
  90. and it said that warehouse L. D. J.
  91. Five like I talked about prior, it says when workers arrived at work,
  92. april 25th, they were greeted with a massive anti union presence in the facility.
  93. Every column in the warehouse is now covered in huge vote, no vote, no, no stickers,
  94. huge spanish writing vote, no hanging hanging from the rafters.
  95. Um and they oppose the movement because it puts the company at risk if people
  96. don't do not want to work and they don't work
  97. specifically for amazon,
  98. that people will not get the products or the items that they order, and that causes
  99. the company to fail
  100. and tactics, um, that corporate used angered workers and says Jeff Bezos sent,
  101. sent crumbs of crispy cream donuts,
  102. She says like we're some animals to pick up some crumbs and think amazon
  103. treats us good so we don't have to work work for a union.