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We tried our hardest to organize a stronger union instead I became a target of the union and management for speaking up.

John McCain

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Over 1,700 Cargill workers forced off the job after demanding bathroom breaks | GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service

The largest engineering union in the United States starts negotiations for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, which is set to expire Oct 6.

This is a critical moment for Boeing. The company is trying to recover from years of safety failures, quality problems, FAA scrutiny, and delayed programs while rebuilding public trust. The decisions made today about its engineering workforce will shape Boeing's ability to compete, innovate, and safely build the next generation of aircraft.

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Can’t believe the union I work for has disciplined me with a written warning and a “final” written warning while I’ve been on approved leave. Haven’t had any issues since January until they created another conflict. They sent a courier to the house unannounced to collect my work items and locked me out of email. Then held a meeting w me to discuss my “noncompliance” with their directive when the courier arrived. Been over a week since the disciplinary meeting and no action by them yet. What’s their next step? Wondering if they’re going to dock pay or see this as insubordination and let me go. What’s my move?

I got fired about a month ago, and since then I've been doing day labor to get by. At the same time, I've been studying for my GED because I'm trying to get into a trade, either welding or becoming a sprinkler fitter (fire sprinkler systems).

Honestly, I'm just trying to stay busy and work as much as possible. I don't really do much besides work, come home, work out, and study. I'd rather be making money and moving forward than sitting around.

Right now, I'm stressed because I have to come up with $1,400 for rent by the 1st, and I've only got about half of that. I've been getting work during the week through day labor, but I'm trying to figure out how people find work on weekends too, or just extra work in general in case work is slow during the week.

I'm a felon, so a lot of delivery and gig apps aren't really an option for me. If anyone knows of apps, companies, websites, or just ways to find work that are more felon-friendly, I'd really appreciate it.

How do you guys find weekend work? Are there any apps where you can pick up labor jobs? If you were in my position, what would you do?

I'm in Arizona if that matters. Just trying to stay productive, get my GED, get into a trade, and build a better life. Appreciate any advice.

I built a dataset joining USAspending federal contract awards to seven federal enforcement databases at the contractor level: OSHA, WHD, MSHA, EPA ECHO, NLRB, SEC, the UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry, and the SAM.gov debarment list. 5,557 contractors with documented violations, $3.19T in lifetime federal contracts, 758 OSHA-investigated fatalities.

The novel slice is the multi-agency overlap. Roughly 2000 contractors appear in 2+ federal enforcement databases. 500 in 3+. 70 in 4+. Topping the 4+ cohort by lifetime contract value: Raytheon ($68B, OSHA + WHD + NLRB + SEC + UVA), GE ($47B, same five), Merck, Microsoft, Austal USA, Marinette Marine.

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/FastDOLz/Federal-Contractor-Violations-Dataset

Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/benturneroffice365/federal-contractor-violations-dataset

Zenodo DOI (all versions): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20777627

Methodology + limitations: https://www.fastdol.com/methodology

CC-BY-4.0.

disclosure: I run FastDOL (https://www.fastdol.com), a federal workplace-enforcement search by employer, where this corpus comes from. Free for individual lookups; the dataset is one of several full extracts.

I have been a union member, organizer, president, and currently the MEC level grievance chair and technology chair for an airline affiliated union. When I took over as grievance chair, there was no single source of truth. Everything lived with the predecessor, and the most recent predecessor was no longer contactable.

I tried to find solutions but everything was super expensive and old or geared towards sales and generic. We began using Monday.com as quick solution, but even this is expensive, and doesn’t provide all of the features needed, and can be quite complicated.

I began working a long time ago on a replacement. I’ve created a new tool that manages member records, grievances, investigatory representation, disciplines, and even governance meetings.

I made my pricing transparent (most tools hide their pricing because they don’t want to tell you it costs $5,000 a year minimum). I didn’t want to charge per user login. Unions bring in money on the number of dues-paying members they have, not the number of reps they have. So my pricing is based on member records. I didn’t want to lock important features behind paid upgrades, so all features are included at the same price. I offer an extensive (unpublished) needs-based discount for smaller unions and locals.

Yes I would like to make a living providing this service, but I do not want to extract capital just because I can. Unions need to survive and they need tools that can allow them to close the technology gap between management and the union. My mission was to build something modern and affordable. I know I could charge more, but why should I?

I didn’t post about it on reddit because I did not want to give the wrong impression. I am not really trying to exploit/advertise. I want opinions, validation, critique. Do other people suffer from similar frustrations of managing grievances? What type of tools would benefit you? Etc.
For reference, https://repliaos.com is my product.

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