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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called (arstechnica.com)

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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

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[-] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

the union doesn't defend worker rights, workers do, the union is an organizational structure to assist and organize the striking workers both inwardly facing and externally facing, and part of that external facing is paying $7 to have the blue checkmark.

and you certainly don't "hire" a union

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