#LaborDay
#LaborDay commemorates the victory of the long, hard-fought Pullman strike, where Black workers brought one of the most powerful companies in America to its knees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
And women have always fought for gender justice through the labor movement: the New York shirtwaist strike is the Ur-example, when women-led unions fought thugs and scabs on icy New York streets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_shirtwaist_strike_of_1909
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Happy French Revolutionary Calendar Labor Day! May the various strikes underway come to an amenable conclusion for the strikers!
I’m a huge nerd for the French Revolutionary Calendar & its complementary timekeeping, decimal time. What’s not to like about 10 day weeks, 10 hour days, 100 minute hours, & 100 second minutes? Ok, the calendar does have 13 months🧐 #LaborDay #frenchrepublicancalendar
“Daylight Saving Time forces people to start work or school earlier than most naturally prefer.” #EndDST #LaborDay https://themessenger.com/opinion/lets-celebrate-workers-by-respecting-their-sleep
#LaborDay is over — but #Labor's Day is just starting
https://www.alternet.org/labor-movement/
Forgot to post this figure this week, but here's what I painted for Labor Day!
This is a Dwarf Cleric model of the Mordengard faction from the amazing miniatures game D&D Chainmail (2001). Mordengard dwarves threw off the shackles of their king and live in a state of revolution, ever striving for a more egalitarian society.
Painted with P3, Citadel shades, and a few pots from Wargames Foundry for the skin.
#PaintingMiniatures #chainmail #dnd #DndChainmail #LaborDay #LabourDay #dwarf
#UAW leader warns of #strike after #Biden suggested he wasn't worried about talks failing: 'It's looking that way'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/uaw-leader-warns-strike-biden-suggested-wasnt-worried-talks-looking-wa-rcna103824?ref=am-quickie.ghost.io
Asked whether he's worried about a #UnitedAutoWorkers strike, the president told reporters on #LaborDay: "No, I’m not worried about a strike until it happens."
It’s just not #LaborDay unless you watch “9 to 5” at some point
#RetroView
HAPPY #LABORDAY
how Ronald Reagan went from #union guy who helped win actors/writers residuals, to most union-busting President ever!
also:
-help strikers in #Newton and #Eldridge
-#Iowa's child #labor rollbacks ARE illegal
-Liz on our OB-GYN shortage
& more: https://mailchi.mp/iowastartingline/welcome-to-starting-lines-relaunched-iowa-newsletter-12652436?e=8286c291d3
Insta 1yr ago: Look for the union label. #laborday #america #hermosabeach #unionflag #laborunions #reasonfortheseason #usa #beach #sunset #losangeles #california https://osoporto.com
Insta 3yrs ago: Extended holiday. #beachtown #neighborhood #redondobeach #streetscene #typography #architecture #lightandshadow #minimal #laborday #losangeles #california https://osoporto.com
Preliminary #LaborDay weekend ridership numbers are in! From Thursday 8/31 through Tuesday 9/5, we safely carried 377,030 people. As expected, our busiest day was Saturday 9/2 with 85,668 riders, followed by Friday 9/1 with 72,401. https://t.co/aBjALxSW3Z
Best Buy’s #LaborDay event is here, featuring exclusive #Samsung TV deals
https://gadgetbond.com/samsung-tv-labor-day-sale-deal-promo-offer-discount/
USA #NYC #NYPD #Drones #Surveillance #Privacy #LaborDay: "In a statement to the Guardian, Daniel Schwarz, the senior privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, said: “Deploying surveillance drones over New Yorkers gathering with their friends and families to celebrate J’ouvert is racialized discrimination and it doesn’t make us safer.”
Schwarz also accused police of “playing fast and loose” with New Yorkers’ constitutional rights to due process and to freely hold peaceful gatherings. He added that the drone ploy was also antithetical to the 2021 Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, which requires New York police to publish impact and use policies on its surveillance technologies.
“As the NYPD keeps deploying these dystopian technologies, we must push for stricter guardrails – especially given the department’s lengthy history of surveilling and policing Black and brown communities,” he continued.
Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, called the decision a “terrible plan that should never have gotten off the ground”.
“We see that there’s a real pattern with the NYPD and with Eric Adams (the New York City mayor) – whenever there’s a risk of bad headlines, they’ll turn to the next technology gimmick,” Cahn told the Guardian."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/new-york-surveillance-drones-labor-day
NBD, just got to march in a Labor Day parade in Louisville, CO because I am a candidate for local office. Got a chance to shake hands with my rockstar congressman Joe Neguse and thank Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold for helping defend democracy in 2020 and beyond.
Pretty sure this was the first time any participant in the parade wore a #Defcon speaker badge!
“Standard Time improves body clock alignment and sleep health, which foster higher safety and performance. That’s good for employees, employers, and the economy.” #LaborDay #EndDaylightSaving https://themessenger.com/opinion/lets-celebrate-workers-by-respecting-their-sleep
Fair Wages on the Map: How Union Organizing is Changing the Game
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/09/05/union-organizing-changing-the-game/
#union #labor #laborday
Fair Wages on the Map: How Union Organizing is Changing the Game
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/09/05/union-organizing-changing-the-game/
#union #labor #laborday
#LaborDay controversy?
The rest of the world celebrates on May 1.
You don't need a lazy youtuber to educate you, just literally talk to anyone that's not from the US, stop looking like an ass when expressing basic facts for the rest of us.
#LaborDay shouldn't be the only time we consider the power of workers in bettering their circumstances.
For bank employees in particular, Bargaining for the Common Good is key to working towards a better future for themselves. https://bit.ly/3Prxkjo
A belated happy Labor day to all the capitalists out there #laborday #capitalist
"Labor actions that boost workers’ ability to bargain collectively are the only path that has ever led to broadly shared prosperity. What is equally clear from history, however, is that the desire of workers alone has never been sufficient to overcome employers’ resistance to unions. Workers’ efforts need to be supported by strong policy measures that re-level the playing field between workers and employers."
Do you want people to say police unions are not real unions? Because this is how you get people to believe police unions are not real unions, loudly, to the tune of the #1312Overture.
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Listening to The PoliticsGirl Podcast (Unions: Giving Workers a Voice): https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/537745/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH3557869157.mp3?updated=1693887272
In honor of Labor Day we’re going to talk about the importance of the American worker, but more specifically about the importance of union work. American workers have clearly had enough.
https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/537745/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH3557869157.mp3?updated=1693887272 #union #unionstrong #labor #laborday #politics
Listening to The PoliticsGirl Podcast (Unions: Giving Workers a Voice): https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/537745/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH3557869157.mp3?updated=1693887272
In honor of Labor Day we’re going to talk about the importance of the American worker, but more specifically about the importance of union work. American workers have clearly had enough. The majority of us know we can’t carry on like this. That the wealth inequality and the growing chasm between workers and owners is leading this country down a dark path. At their peak, 40% of American workers were part of a union, now that number is under 7%, and look what’s happened - the rich got richer while the poor got poorer and the middle class has all but disappeared. People can’t afford homes, food or health care, and the majority of us have to take a side hustle or gig work on top of our regular jobs just to make ends meet. It’s unsustainable, and the workers of America are beginning to stand in solidarity against it. To talk about the importance of union voices in the fight for our future we are joined by AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler whose federation includes 60 unions and 12.5 million working people across all sectors of the U.S. economy as she gives us a hopeful path to a better future. As always, if you enjoy what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, and the knowledge that you’re allowing us to keep bringing you the best content possible. That’s https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium Thank you for caring! xoPG MERCH STORE NOW OPEN: Check it out at: https://www.politicsgirl.com/store Guest social: https://aflcio.org/ As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl A big thank you to our other sponsors!! https://michaelsteelenetwork.com/ https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl https://trymiracle.com/politicsgirl
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Today in Labor History September 5, 1882: The first American Labor Day was observed, with 30,000 workers marching in New York City. The event was connected to a meeting of the radical Knights of Labor. Oregon became the first state to officially recognize the holiday. Over the years, more an more states recognized the holiday. However, by 1886, workers from around the world were celebrating May 1st as International Workers’ Day, in honor of the American anarchists who were wrongly convicted and executed for the Haymarket Affair. Fearing that the May 1st holiday would strengthen anarchist and communist movements, President Cleveland pushed for federal recognition of the September holiday. And in 1894, Congress passed a bill making it an official federal holiday.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #LaborDay #MayDay #haymarket #anarchism #socialism #communism #InternationalWorkersDay
Am 5. September 1882, heute vor 141 Jahren, demonstrierten in New York City Zehntausende für die Einführung des Achtstundentages.
Die Demonstration gilt als ein Meilenstein der Arbeiterbewegung und bis heute wird in Andenken daran in den USA am ersten Montag im September der Labor Day als gesetzlicher Feiertag begangen.
#geschichte #historisch #heutevor #geschichtetoday #laborday #usa #newyork #newyorkcity #demonstration #protest
So that’s my thought this #LaborDay. Mention, notice, and thank the people in your life that labor to make your life and the life of the people you love possible. Question why those people are paid so little in a society that equates compensation with personal worth. Challenge whether we should continue to do that.
UAW’s clash with Big 3 automakers shows off a more confrontational union as strike deadline looms
Yesterday was #LaborDay in the #USA
#Grindr is enforcing a “return to office policy”
#CodeForAmerica announced just before #LaborDay that they're immediately laying off 35 employees
We *all* deserve a #union to stand up for our rights
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/labor/
@beep has written a book https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
A little late, but here is my contribution to #SilentSunday from my #LaborDay #morningWalk. Technically, not Sunday, but sure felt like a Sunday. Gotta love a holiday. #ducks #birdsofmastodon #luckywelivehawaii #momentOfZen
"Labor" has no etymology. It comes from Latin "labor", meaning "labor". There’s the Archaic Latin form "labos". But it cannot be traced any further. #LaborDay
#Bernie #LaborDay #BernieSanders
Why this Labor Day is so consequential
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/04/labor-day-economy-living-standard-bernie-sanders?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
I got three emails from LinkedIn I never asked for on this #LaborDay and that was just so wrong.
Night lights in The Land ✨
#photography #foto #picoftheday #night #lights #downtown #cleveland #laborday
FOUND IT!
the source of #UAW's #ShawnFain's "billionaires don't... have a right to exist" quote.
at about the 11-12 mins mark he explains their #FordMotorCo demands. though Ford rejected them, IT'S THE ONLY ONE OF THE BIG3 TO START NEGOTIATIONS.
so they sued #GM & #Stellantis for illegal labor practices
from this recorded livestream we also get news 95% of #BlueCrossBlueShield of Michigan workers approved #strikes by end of the month
dude! i want #FranDrescher and Shawn Fain as my union presidents.
let's give Ms. Drescher an encore on that fiery speech she gave the day she called the strike
The Man.
The Myth.
The Legend.
#ShawnFain is not only a man who's name is one of the best puns on the democratic socialist party of the great nation of Ireland. here he is, the #UAW #labor #union president telling us that not only "billionaires don't... have a right to exist" but:
"we have gone so far backwards that we have to fight just to have a 40-hour work-week back.
why is that?
so another ASSHOLE can make enough money to shoot himself to the moon?"
@davidaugust Seen at today’s Greater Boston Labor Council #LaborDay breakfast, #sagaftra National Board member and Vice President of Midsize Locals, Michele Proude, as she addressed the gathered labor and political leaders.
"Billionaires ... don't have a right to exist."
🗣️ 📣 THERE'S YOUR PICKETING CHANT. NOW GO RUN WITH THAT AND MAKE IT AN EARWORMY HIT
#UAW #UnionStrong #strikes #labor #LaborDay
https://mastodon.social/@morax@satanodon.com/110993536871976645
🗣️ 📣 SEX IS GREAT BUT HAVE YOU HAD A #FightingUnion MAKING YOUR LIFE BETTER LATELY
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/united-auto-workers-reform-caucus-victory-union-democracy-militancy
On this #LaborDay remember that the following are some of the #unpaid #Labor we need to do to survive but capitalists get to reap the benefits in that thing they call "productivity" and "added value".
- house cleaning
- gardening
- laundry
- home repairs
- child care
- pet care
- grocery shopping
- sick/infirm care
- volunteer work
- party/holiday planning
and if you think am exaggerating: go check out Jack Welch's divorce settlement from his first wife.
capitalists KNOW we need a #UBI
#SAGAFTRAstrong Sally Field in the movie Norma Rae written #WGAstrong by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.
@HeatherRojo Artists don’t observe Labor Day for 2 reasons. Our work is a labor of love and it’s so labor intensive we can’t. 🤣🤣🤣 #Art #Photography #LaborDay #Handmade #glitchart
Federally Sanctioned Exploitation Of Workers with Disabilities – Happy Labor Day:
On this Labor Day, Out Of Exile – Invisible Disability Rights gives thanks and honor to workers and the unions that protect them. Without unions, the experience of many workers may be similar to that of the disabled. This piece will focus on the exploitation and abuse of disabled workers by employers , and how it's perfectly legal under federal and state laws in the US. Section 14(c) of the US Department of Labor's "Fair Standards And Labor Act" (FSLA), has been virtually unchanged since it was enacted in 1938. Under the almost century old regulation, employers can apply for a certificate which allows them to pay workers with disabilities, an unspecified subminimum wage.
The average sub wage and the number of disabled people seemingly exploited by this legislation, seems to vary among the sources linked below. By any account, even one person with disabilities being preyed upon in this way, is far too many. The wages are inhumane. A 2021 Forbes article claims over 320,000 people with disabilities, the majority with invisible disabilities, earn an average of $3.34 an hour. A previous Forbes article put the figures in excess of 420,000 people being paid as little as $2.15, while others cite drastically lower wages. Some organizations like Goodwill, form their own "sheltered workshops", determining their own limits on sub wages for their disabled workers. There seems to be no bottom limit on how little individuals with invisible disabilities can be paid.
"The non-profits use “time studies” to calculate the salaries of Section 14 (c) workers. With a stopwatch, staff members time how long it takes a disabled worker to complete a task. That time is compared with how long it would take a person without a disability to do the same task. The non-profit then applies a formula to calculate a rate of pay, which may be equal to or less than minimum wage".
A decade ago, NBC reported that Goodwill industries, presumably by authority of their DOL "Section 14(c) certificate", paid disabled workers twenty-two cents an hour. The report claims that some were paid as little as three or four cents an hour. Think about paying your bills 10 years ago on a wage like this. Some nonprofits, even place Section 14(c) workers in outside, for-profit endeavors in restaurants, stores and even, "IRS centers". That sounds more like calculated exploitation, rather than accommodation and equality. Though the "NBC-Goodwill" article and figures are old, the problem is older and still continues today.
The theory of sheltered workshops is to prepare individuals with disabilities to transition to outside employment. In Missouri, disabled workers packaging T-shirts or sorting and counting dog treats to be sold for profit on Amazon, rarely "graduate" these workshops into regular paying jobs. Pay for sorting the $15 Amazon dog treats? $1.50 an hour while Jeff Bezos builds rocket ships. The title of the recent ProPublica article linked below, says it all. "Missouri Allows Some Disabled Workers to Earn Less Than One Dollar and Hour. The State Says It's Fine If That Never Changes". I say, show me change in the Show-Me state and across the country.
In a follow-up to that story by ProPublica, some participants of sheltered workshops said they approved, saying the alternative is to sit at home and do nothing. Are these opinion formed as a result of gas lighting or years of oppression accepted as "just the way it is"? It's time for new attitudes and alternatives for the disabled community when it comes to wages and employment. In some states, now there are.
About 16 states have changed or passed laws regarding disability subminimum wage exploitation but, nothing to speak of federally. A three year old press release from the National Council on Disability that "Applauded the US commission on civil rights call to repeal section 14(c)", seems to be the sum of that effort. Other states have actions in progress including: Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York. If you live in any of these states, now's the time for activism and to let your representatives know how you feel. Follow the ""legislation watch" APSE link to track progress. The Alternative? Similar actions introduced in Kentucky and West Virginia died in committee allowing this despicable injustice against disabled people in those states to continue. Change is up to everyone. What will you do to help stop the exploitation and abuse?
OutOfExile_IDR © 2023
"Subminimum Wage: ...Why It Needs to End" – World Institute on Disability (WID): https://wid.org/subminimum-wage-what-it-is-why-its-unjust-and-why-it-needs-to-end/
"Missouri Allows Some Disabled Workers to Earn Less Than a Dollar an Hour…" – ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-sheltered-workshops-low-graduation-rate
More disabled workers paid just pennies in our – NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/more-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-hour-nvna19916979
"Paying Disabled People Less Than Minimum Wage: The Next Frontier for Disability Activism" – Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/drnancydoyle/2021/07/30/paying-disabled-people-less-than-the-minimum-wage-the-next-frontier-for-disability-activism/?sh=1579a7707fe3
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/10/24/sub-minimum-wages-disability/?sh=4b845da4c22b
Some in Missouri approve of sheltered workshops: https://www.propublica.org/article/what-disability-community-told-us-about-sheltered-workshops
Where Does Your States Stand – APSE: https://apse.org/state-legislation/
#DisabilityEconomicJustice #LaborDay #disability #wages #equality #change #exploitation #DisabilitySolidarity #union #InvisibleDisabilityRights #unite #UnionStrong
@disability @disabilityjustice
Get some #laborday reading in with the second book in The Biomass Conflux! Learn what happens as colonists start to communicate with sentient fungus!
#scifi #sciencefiction
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2WL7PXP
The Bay View massacre was the result of a strike held on May 4, 1886, by 7,000 building-trades workers and 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day.[
By Monday, May 3, the number of participants had increased to over 14,000 workers who gathered at the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill in Bay View. They were met by 250 National Guardsmen under order from Republican Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk. The strikers had shut down every business in the city except the North Chicago Rolling Mills in Bay View. The guardsmen's orders were that, if the strikers were to enter the Mills, they should shoot to kill. But when the captain received the order it had a different meaning: he ordered his men to pick out a man and shoot to kill when the order was given. Workers camped in the nearby fields and the Kosciuszko Militia arrived by May 4. Early the next day the crowd, which by this time contained children, approached the mill and were fired upon. Seven people died as a result, including a thirteen-year-old boy. Several more were injured during the protest. Several contradictory newspaper accounts described other possible casualties, but the count of seven deaths is substantiated by specific names (Frank Kunkel, Frank Nowarczyk, John Marsh, Robert Erdman, Johann Zazka, Martin Jankowiak, and Michael Ruchalski).
#Politics #Leftism #Leftist #Socialism #Labor #LaborDay #Communism #WorkerRights #LaborRights #Weekend #8HourDay #Meme
Today's top ten tag trends:
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9: #silentsunday
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7: #名作をいきなり終了させる
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Workers, 1967
One of the drawers in the James Martin / Tiffany Cabinet was labeled "Workers"
For this Labor Day, here are some workers
#sfhistory #LaborDay
more here: https://sfmemory.org/search/index.php?q=workers&_ds=1&bn=0&bs=50&so0=contains&sf1=item_url&so1=contains&ss1=sfm005-10
On #LaborDay I watch a film about #slavery b/c if we’re going to recognize the #workforce, we should acknowledge that the #US achieved great success by forcing #Black bodies to perform free labor. This year’s pick #TheWomanKing was amazing. I ❤️#ViolaDavis
#BlackMastodon
A friend once told me:
"Observing holidays on Monday isn't satisfying because it just makes two Sundays. They should be observed on Fridays so you get an extra Saturday. That's why American Thanksgiving is so nice, because it's three Saturdays in a row, then one Sunday to wind down."
San Ramon Councilmember (and CA State Senate Candidate) Marisol Rubio and Assemblymember Alex Lee
Respect and Value Healthcare Workers, Patient Need, not Corporate Greed! #United4All #FairWages4Healthcare #LaborDay
#LaborDay tutorial for folks who, for one reason or another, don't know how to stand in #Solidarity with workers during a #Strike action
:solidarity: :iww: :af: :better_pride:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-a-scab-actors-workers-cross-picket-line
#LaborDay Oakland rally with SEIU UHW! Workers, state & local leaders, and the community united to fight for living wages and safe staffing. We also need #SB525 to up the pay for CA healthcare workers to $25 an hour. #United4All #FairWages4Healthcare
They declined her offer of coffee. Reich's father Ed invited them to sit down. They refused. They then informed Reich's parents that South Salem was "a Christian community," and informed the Reichs, a Jewish family, that they were not welcome. Ed Reich thanked them for their visit and then told them to get the hell out of his house. That visit made him all the more determined to keep his family in South Salem and stand up to this prejudice and attempt to bully.
"Unions have already notched some big wins this year, including at UPS — and they are looking for more, with writers and actors striking in Hollywood and the United Auto Workers union playing hardball in contract negotiations with the Big 3 automakers."
In his Labor Day tribute to his father, Robert Reich tells a haunting story. This happened on Labor Day in 1947 when his family moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to South Salem, New York. Reich says that soon after his family moved to South Salem, a group of men knocked on the door. His mother greeted them warmly, then saw their faces and realized something was awry.
She invited them into the house.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/personal-history-my-father-and-joe
Anyway, the path to becoming a doctor in the United States is roiled with artificial scarcity, sorority-style employment rushing, contractually-binding non-negotiable relocation, artificially suppressed wages, legally mandated anti-competitive hiring practices, and institutional credentialing conflicts of interest. And I have some opinions about all that. Happy #LaborDay!
Happy US Labor Day, friends!
Labor is the face of every worker, visible or invisible, that holds up the world as we know it. Even in the face of soulless automation, the world, its economy, and society at large cannot function without the worker, without labor.