I just heard from a friend of mine that all

[Beachnutt]

the General Motors employees are off today to go vote.
Hopefully the UAW Vote helps the Dems.

[Earthrise]

1. Nice! All the kids in my schools had UAW Dads -

I grew up near a Chrysler plant in Fenton, Missouri. The weakening of unions is one reason Missouri has gone beet red. It leaned conservative in my childhood (70's) but it wasn't like it is now.

[Beachnutt]

2. The rethugs and right wing media are

chipping away at union membership and have been for years now.
Many union members vote against their own interest because they have been brainwashed.
Kinda like chickens voting for colonel sanders.

[Orrex]

3. Agreed

You’ll seldom find someone as ardently anti-union as a worker in a formerly union industry who now believes that unions don’t do anything.

As if corporations have ever voluntarily done anything for the workers.

[calimary]

4. Wow! Really? GM is giving everybody the day off to go vote?

That’s FAN-FREAKIN’-TASTIC!!!

An enlightened company. Whooda thunkit?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Good lord no, GM is not "giving everybody the day off to go vote."

The UAW bargains Election Day as a paid holiday. They fought for it. Do not ever think employers ever "give" employees anything.

[calimary]

12. Understood. But they still get the day off, though, don't they?

Or don’t they?

Frankly, I think EVERY Election Day should be a national holiday.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. It's a paid holiday in the master contract.

[BlueTsunami2018]

5. My union always has Election Day as a holiday.

To help get out the vote.

Unfortunately, at least half are MAGAts. They’re out fishing or whatever.

[Nanuke]

18. Better they are out fishing...

…than voting.

[Lonestarblue]

6. If Dems retain control of Congress, it's time to make election day a national holiday.

If we need to get rid of a holiday, get rid of Columbus Day since he did not discover the US nor even step a foot here.

[LittleGirl]

14. Ding ding ding! Y E S! nt

[AngryOldDem]

19. Absolutely!

That, or make it across a weekend, in addition to early voting options.

All for scrapping Columbus Day for this.

[Shermann]

21. National holidays are meaningless without paid days off from employers

I haven't heard even a rumor of a paid Columbus Day off in a long, long time.

[republianmushroom]

7. I like it

[2naSalit]

8. Good to hear.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Election Day is a paid holiday in the master contract.

[Emile]

11. It should be a national holiday!

[childfreebychoice]

15. Just heard fr friend in Baltimore, that when he went to usu poll site

Entrance has been changed. He walked around for quite a while trying to figure out how to get into building, no signage. He said he saw sev ppl, who couldn't figure out where entrance was, just leave. Very concerned that they won't come back. Do better, hometown Baltimore!

[ShazzieB]

20. No signage? Good lord!

Having been an election judge for a number of years, this story made my hair stand on end! I have never seen a polling place that wasn't clearly marked as such, usually in more than one place. Is your friend absolutely sure the polling place hasn't been moved to a different location? That's the very first thing I would check, on line and/or with a phone call.

It sounds like somebody messed up big time here, by either moving the polling place and not getting the word out, or by not clearly marking the correct entrance and making sure the door was unlocked. The former seems most likely to me, but the latter is not impossible. Either way, there has been a serious screw-up somewhere.

If this happened to me, I would immediately get on the phone to report this to whatever governmental entity is responsible for running elections. (Where I live, it's the office of the county clerk; don’t know about Maryland.) They need to hear about this, and ime, they would WANT to hear about it so they can fix it!

I hope that the problem has been handled by now, and your friend has been able to vote. What a mess!

[IbogaProject]

16. whoops

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I posted in wrong thread somehow. Leaving this apology to give the other posts context.

[niyad]

22. ?????

[Beachnutt]

23. Huh ??

[IbogaProject]

24. wrong thread

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I was clicking on another thread and misposted to this thread. leaving for context.

[intrepidity]

28. Yeah but

did you intend to post it in this thread?

[IbogaProject]

29. Nope

I was on a different thread, I must have clicked something on the side on my phone and didn't double check the post I replied to. Total mistake.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Bath & Body Works didn't open their stores until noon today

so that associates could go vote. Seems like something all retailers could do pretty easily. At least some are staying closed on Thanksgiving now.

[LiberalFighter]

26. Yes. GM, Ford, and Chrysler UAW members have federal elections off.

Does not include primaries.

[tirebiter]

27. First, make your workplace union

Then have the holiday in your contract. If you want the holiday then unionize. We’ve already got Labor Day for everybody.