Not happy that my council person is trying to bust a union.

@1 "your council person"( if you do indeed live in Sawant's district) isn't doing anything to bust the carpenters.

How does strengthening picket lines and uniting other workers against the employer " bust" a union? Sawant is also pushing a key demand of the carpenter rank and file, parking, which takes pressure off the union's bargaining and puts pressure on the contractors.

@4 Climate change is real, when will you guys get that. We need to drive LESS.

fuck yeah Seize the Movement

“We don’t need outsiders coming in and agitating our members in a direction that’s going to get them in trouble or put them in a bad situation,' said Evelyn Shapiro, the union’s executive secretary... "

going bareback* may getchya in a Bad Way too
'less you're all Fully-Vaxxed which I
doubt so many likely being
rugged Individuals
and therefore
Invincible
mostly
and no you do Not
Own the Movement but
there's POWER in Numbers:

Do the Math.

*maskless

+1 to @7, the level of journalism and objectivity in this article is several tiers above your standard Stranger dreck.

I was expecting my standard Rich Smith article glorifying the Sawant people while gleefully, childishly insulting and misrepresenting the actual Carpenters Union people. Very pleasantly surprised to find otherwise. I'm sure Rich will bring the hammer down though. The paper has a reputation to maintain.

@3: 'How does strengthening picket lines and uniting other workers against the employer " bust" a union?'

She's intentionally exacerbating the split within the union, by giving publicity and financial support to the dissident PJM faction. The PJM faction's wildcat strikes threaten the union's contract, and thus the livelihoods of ALL of the carpenters the union represents. That's completely unfair to the majority of the union-represented carpenters, who support their elected leadership in contract negotiations. (Interesting how CM Sawant's supporters always remind us how she won elections, when she herself shows such little regard for election results in a union.) This weakening of the union helps only opponents of unions.

I should have known it was too good to be true--A Carpenters' reunion! Karen is still gone.

as a union wireman LU 46, I approve of this message. I walked with carpenters and the weird socialist hybrid our local political microclimate has grown. If you've never stood with your union brothers and sisters on a 'wildcat', then you've never really lived. Watching working men and women picking up their tools and walking off a south union highrise , joining your picket and moving to the next site is about a close to a real revolution that I've ever seen.

Now, I'm no marxist but if union leadership can't disentangle itself from the demands of industry, than the whole labor movement is headed for a riot-strike-riot kind of cycle. Brace yourselves.

"...Sawant pledged $10,000 of her solidarity fund – where she puts the remainder of her council salary after taking home a modest $40,000 – to PJM’s own strike fund."

Did you click on your link to "solidarity fund"? It goes to an excellent article at SCC Insight, which detailed CM Sawant's self-dealing through that very fund. She and her husband received money and gifts from some of the same organizations to which her "solidarity fund" had donated. In the case of the two organizations which received the largest donations, her household was getting far more back than it gave. This has been known for years.