#strike
Today in Labor History June 10, 1937: The mayor of Monroe, Michigan organized a vigilante mob of 1,400 men armed with baseball bats and teargas to break the picket line at Newton Steel. As a result, eight strikers were injured and hospitalized. The vigilantes also vandalized sixteen of the workers’ cars dumped eight of them into the river.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #vigilante #violence #michigan
Today in Labor History June 10, 1904: The National Guard deported 79 striking Colorado miners to Kansas, following a battle between the Colorado Militia and striking miners at Dunnville that had occurred two days prior. The battle ended with six union members dead and 15 taken prisoner. Dozens were arrested without warrants and held without formal charges. All this occurred during the infamous Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904) in which dozens of striking workers were slaughtered by cops, national guards and vigilantes and hundreds were deported. The miners, organized by the Western Federation of Miners, and led by future IWW founders Big Bill Haywood and Vincent Saint John, often fought back with guns, and engaged in sabotage, blowing up mines.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #mining #colorado #police #PoliceBrutality #acab #IWW #wfm #BigBillHaywood #militia #union #strike #massacre #vigilante #deportation
Today in Labor History June 10, 1917: A massive citywide textile strike for better wages and working conditions began in Sao Paulo, lasting over a month. Workers tried to appeal to the sympathies of police and soldiers, but when this failed openly confronted them. By July they were joined by striking cab drivers, utility workers and craft workers, totaling over 20,000 on strike, the first General Strike in Brazilian history. The strike was also part of a wave of strikes that occurred from 1917-1918, which culminated in a failed anarchist uprising.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #strike #brazil #GeneralStrike #StrikeWave #uprising #Revolution
Directors Guild Deal With Studios Draws Mixed Response As Members Review Details
DGA negotiators tried to sell the deal to their members in one of several planned Zoom calls, even as some remained skeptical and planned to vote no: "The leverage we had was historic and ... leadership squandered it."
“Squandered it…” yup. I’m betting the vote won’t go the way some at the top want it to go but I’m probably wrong.
#DGA #WGA #SAG #Strike
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/directors-guild-deal-details-members-1235510535/
My family & I attended a community #BoardGame night hosted by a friend of mine. We're still masking, but it is nice to hang out in the same space as old friends.
I was having such a good time, I forgot to take any pictures.
We ended up playing #Strike (a push-your-luck dice rolling game), #Skull (a bluffing & social deduction game), #TheWolf (a trivia game with shifting teams & a game show feel), #Crossing (a voting & set collection game), & #MonsDRAWsity (a memory & drawing party game).
NYC Smokes! Disney Vaults Shows! (June 8, 2023) - Ep. 4 https://youtu.be/PIyzPQUUd5k via @YouTube
Contract TK
#WGA #strike #SagAFTRA
Bitcoin Payments Firm Strike Moves Custody In-House After Ditching Third-Party Services - The move is a “culmination of over two years of effort,” according to Strike CEO and cofo... - https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/06/09/bitcoin-payments-firm-strike-moves-custody-in-house-after-ditching-third-party-services/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #custodyservices #jackmallers #technology #primetrust #bitcoin #strike #news
@jericson thanks for this solid analysis of the #stackoverflow #moderation #strike. Misguided company spinning yarns, again. I'm glad the strike's having an impact.
"Well, 14 of the 24 active Stack Overflow moderators signed on before the strike officially started. As with the network as a whole, a minority of SO mods handle the majority of the flags. Unsurprisingly, the most active moderators signed on and by the first day of the strike the most active SO moderator was a company employee."
Community outreach workers say their work is integral to students, families in Nova Scotia — @SuzanneR70 talks to three of them
#accessibility #Halifax #NovaScotia #strike https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/equity/accessibility/community-outreach-workers-say-their-work-is-integral-to-students-families-in-nova-scotia/
#developers just in case you want to support #StackOverflow moderators #strike.
Please consider to sign the open letter and spread the word.
https://openletter.mousetail.nl
More insights here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-strike-stack-overflow-inc-cannot-consistently-ignore-mistreat-an
Good luck to friends and former colleagues at #UniversityOfBrighton who are marching tomorrow against the mass redundancies they're facing . #UCU #Brighton #Strike
#UPS #Teamsters Start #Strike Authorization Vote
https://labornotes.org/2023/06/ups-teamsters-start-strike-authorization-vote
BREAKING: CUPE Local 5047 heading back to bargaining table Friday — Yvette d'Entremont
#accessibility #Halifax #NovaScotia #strike https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/education/cupe-local-5047-heading-back-to-bargaining-table-friday/
MLA Brad Johns should ‘understand’ struggle, school support workers say, since he used to work alongside them
#strike #education #Halifax #NovaScotia #accessibility https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/education/mla-brad-johns-should-understand-struggle-school-support-workers-say/
Oppose Biden intervention in West Coast Port strike!
No repeat of the rail strike govt intervention and union sell-out!
Solidarity with striking dockers, and all workers opposing unfair working conditions!
General strike now!
‘Please see us’: Support workers’ union wants premier, education minister at bargaining table
#inclusion #education #strike #union https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/education/please-see-us-support-workers-union-wants-premier-education-minister-at-bargaining-table/
Inclusion Nova Scotia says that exclusion of students with disabilities from school is a human rights violation (by Yvette d'Entremont)
#inclusion #strike #education
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/education/inclusion-nova-scotia-exclusion-of-students-with-disabilities-from-school-a-human-rights-violation/
A typical response to what The Irish Times refers to as "seasonal strikes" – it doesn't seem to occur to the poor reader that if the working people had decent pay and conditions they wouldn't go on strike; it's not their summer pastime but their desperate necessity #Strike #AirTrafficControllers https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/06/08/french-air-traffic-controllers/
Today in Labor History June 7, 1913: The radical labor union, IWW, held a fundraising pageant at Madison Square Gardens. The production featured songs and a reenactment of events from the ongoing Paterson strike. It was created and performed by 1,000 mill workers from the silk industry strike. John Reed organized a march of strikers into Manhattan for the pageant.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #iww #paterson #women #union #strike #MadisonSquareGarden
Contracts negotiated when unions were stronger, when the general public valued solidarity over trying to win the lottery in their industry, were far more equitable.
But that culture of solidarity was murdered. It was murdered by get-rich-quick, by rugged individualism, by slick propaganda.
Now solidarity is starting to come back.
NewsGuild journalists went on #strike Monday in #Austin and elsewhere, demanding better pay and a change in leadership at #Gannett, reports Senior Staff Writer @gusbova. Congressmember Greg Casar even stopped by in support:
https://www.texasobserver.org/gannett-strike-journalists-union-newsguild/
(📷 Photo by Gus Bova)
#unions #news #journalism #Texas #JournoLife #Dallas #labor #NewsGuild #WallStreet #politics #USpol
The volunteer moderators of #StackExchange are on #strike since the 5th of June.
The company running the most important resource for people working in tech consistently went against the wishes and needs of the community actually providing useful knowledge for each other.
This is not just about the reversal of Stack Overflow Inc's decision against AI generated content on the platform and the recent promotion of their own new AI based tools. This is about the central resource for sharing knowledge about so many things - far more than code or software - being in private hands. No one should be surprised about their decisions, their short-term bottom line will always be more important.
The moderators and contributors organizing themselves against the corporation they work for - even if they do so unpaid - is a huge step. And it is not just happening with #StackOverflow
The Insider #Union is on #strike! They're asking supporters to honor their picket line and not click on Insider links or watch Insider videos. And if you can donate to their strike fund, it does help. ✊
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-insider-union-workers-on-a-1day-walkout
"39 ex-prisoners escaped from the 'Storm Z' training camp in #Lisichansk (E. #Ukraine)."
"1 serviceman of the Ministry of State Security of the LPR was killed. He tried to stop the deserters from escaping."
"7 armed ex-prisoners escaped from a #Russian military unit near #Soledar in the #Donetsk region. Soon, 3 were captured near #Bryanka, 2 were detained very drunken in a cafe in Bryanka, another was shot dead by his 'comrades' for desire to surrender."
The greed of# entertainment executives could reap a double #strike
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/06/the-greed-of-entertainment-executives-could-reap-a-double-strike/
Today in Labor History June 6, 1937: A general strike by 12,000 autoworkers and others in Lansing, MI shuts down the city for a month in what was to become known as the city’s “Labor Holiday.” A judge had recently imposed an injunction on workers, making it illegal for them to picket, blockade or interfere in the operations of Capital city Wrecking Company. The workers ignored the injunction were arrested, including the wife of the auto workers local union president, leaving their three children at home unattended. In response, they called a General Strike. Flying squadrons of out-town workers came in solidarity to support the General Strike. They were successful in forcing negotiations that got all the prisoners released. However, the strike continued in East Lansing, where anti-labor university students battled with workers, dumping some of their cars into the river.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #union #sabotage #GeneralStrike #prison #solidarity #autoworkers #michigan
Today in Labor History 1894: Colorado’s governor sent in the Colorado state militia to support the Cripple Creek miners' strike, the only time in history that a state militia was used to help a workers’ struggle, rather than to suppress it.
The mine owners were demanding a 10-hour day without an increase in pay. In response, the miners went on strike. There was considerable violence from both sides during the strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM). On March 16, some miners ambushed, shot and beat some sheriff’s deputies. The judge, a WFM member, let the miners off, but charged the deputies with carrying concealed weapons.
Furious, the Sheriff arrested 20 union leaders. Meanwhile, the mine owners conspired to bring in hundreds of scabs and deputized vigilantes. When the new deputies marched on the strikers’ camp, the miners blew up several mine structures, forcing the deputies to flee. The mine owners hired hundreds more vigilantes for their army. When he heard about the size of the miner owners’ force, the governor declared the deputies illegal and sent in state troops to defend the miners.
On June 5, the day before the state troops arrived, the mine owners’ army began cutting telegraph lines and arresting reporters and hundreds of town residents. When the state troops arrived, there were already gun battles going on between the vigilante army and the miners. However, the state troops gained control of the town relatively quickly and the mine owners disbanded their army and sent them home.
300 miners were arrested, but only four were convicted. And the populist governor pardoned them all. The WFM won, keeping the 8-hour day and their $3/day wages. And, they were so popular because of their victory, that they easily organized most of the other industries in the region (e.g., waitresses, laundry workers, bartenders, newsboys) into 54 new locals.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #mining #colorado #union #strike #solidarity #militia #sabotage #police #PoliceBrutality #acab
1.Mai in Plauen
Plauen bildet seit vielen Jahren einen großen Stützpunkt für den III. Weg. Gegen den III. Weg arbeitet in Plauen der Colorido e. V. Um auf den 1. Mai und die Wochen danach in Plauen zurückzublicken, hat Jan mit Kolb Unglaub vom Colorido e. V. Gesproche...
https://radiocorax.de/1-mai-in-plauen/
Petition Schulsozialarbeit sichern in Sachsen-Anhalt
Am 1. Juni, dem weltweiten Kindertag, haben die drei größten Kommunen Sachsen-Anhalts Halle, Magdeburg und Dessau-Roßlau eine Resolution zum Erhalt der Schulsozialarbeit dem Landtag übergeben. Hintergrund sind die Pläne des Landes, Kommunen künftig stä...
https://radiocorax.de/petition-schulsozialarbeit-sichern-in-sachsen-anhalt/
The U.S. #WGA #writers #strike began 1 month ago. Here's how it's affecting the #Canada industry
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/writers-strike-effects-in-canada-1.6864301
#UPSstrike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/ups-strike-looms-in-a-world-grown-reliant-on-everything-delivered-everywhere-all-the-time/3579324/
The #Teamsters, representing about 350,000 #UPS #workers, say they'll #strike if there's no deal by the time the current contract expires July 31
The #SAGAFTRA #strike authorization votes are in, and the vote is 97.91% yes. The #actors’ #union made the announcement on Monday night that they have #authorizedastrike if need be.
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/sag-aftra-strike-vote-results.html
#10yrsago Leaked top-secret court order shows that #NSA engages in bulk, sustained, warrantless surveillance of Americans https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order
#10yrsago Time for total war on #PatentTrolls https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-make-war-on-patent-trolls
#5yrsago UPS #Teamsters ready to stage America’s biggest #strike since 1997, with solidarity as the main sticking point https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/news/companies/ups-teamsters-negotiations/index.html
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The #DGA has reached a tentative agreement with the movie companies, which means there won't also be a Director's Strike.
Though that still hasn't resolved the on-going Writer's Strike in any way. The next threat for the producers already looms on the horizon: Negotiations with the SAG-AFTRA and those will come at an even higher cost. #SAGAFTRA #WGA #Strike
SAG-AFTRA Members Vote 97.9% in Favor of Strike Authorization
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-strike-authorization-vote-writers-1235633850/
#Unions to #SupremeCourt: #Billionaire hacks can’t stop our right to #strike!
https://www.workers.org/2023/06/71390
Workers at the #Austin-American Statesman are on #strike today as part of a broader strike at #Gannett-owned papers, reports our Staff Writer @gusbova on #birdsite: https://nitter.nl/gusbova/status/1665754356845510659#m
#Union #journalism #JournoLife #labor #workers #news #politics #USpol #protest #Texas
Wow this is the first time I've seen the recent slowdowns at the Ports of LA/Long Beach actually called wildcat striking in (sorta trade) press:
SCOTUS hands major blow to Labor:
Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme court ruled 8-1 that employers could sue employees to recover "damages" resulting from a strike action. This could, potentially, make all strike actions illegal, since the entire point of a strike is to cause monetary damages as leverage to force employers to agree to workers' demands.
Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenting justice. She said this was a question of whether workers were legally free or just “indentured servants,” who can be prohibited by law from refusing to work. The other 2 liberal justices, Sotomayer and Kagen, both sided with the right-wing justices, and with employers.
Solidarity with striking dockworkers!
Dockers refused to come to work on June 2, causing the complete shut down of the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Tacoma, Seattle and Hueneme. This came in the wake of insulting offers of a $1.56/hour wage increase by the Pacific Maritime Association.
#solidarity #strike #wages #longshore #docker #union #ilwu #WorkingClass #inflation
Today in Labor History June 5, 1925: Mine owners in La Coruna, Chile, launched an attack on rebel workers in a nitrate mine encampment, killing over 2,000 workers. Over 500 workers were tortured in Iqueque. This came in the wake of an earlier massacre in March, in which 500 were slaughtered by the government.
#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #strike #massacre #PoliceAbuse #police #acab #chile #torture #rebellion
🪧 Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
➥ Stack Exchange
"Stack Overflow has once again ignored the needs and established consensus of its community, instead focusing on business pivots at the expense of its own Community Managers, with many community requests for improved tooling and improving the user experience being left on the back burner."
#AI #StackOverflow #Strike #Moderation
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-strike-stack-overflow-inc-cannot-consistently-ignore-mistreat-an
🪧 Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
➥ The Verge
"Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access the site’s APIs."
#Reddit #Strike #RedditStrike #Moderation
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749188/reddit-subreddit-private-protest-api-changes-apollo-charges
Sincere question for #WGA #strike people: Why has the Director's Guild been able to reach a deal with the studios faster than the Writer's Guild? Is it that their demands were milder? That studios traditionally have a better relationship with directors than they do writers? Is a strongarm tactic to break up solidarity, at a price they're willing to pay? Genuinely curious. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/business/media/hollywood-directors-guild-deal.html
Today in Labor History June 3, 1913: IWW Marine Transport Workers Union in New Orleans continued their strike against United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita) after wages were cut by five dollars per month. The strike, which started on June 2, turned deadly on June 13, when police opened fire on strikers trying to stop scabs from loading a ship, killing two of them. The IWW lost this strike. However, they were highly successful in other longshore strikes up and down the Eastern Seaboard. At this time, the IWW controlled all but 2 of the Philadelphia docks. Their multiracial union was led by Ben Fletcher, an African-American docker. Fletcher was also instrumental in organizing the Baltimore dockers.
You can read my longer article about Ben Fletcher here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #wobblies #union #strike #racism #NewOrleans #philadelphia #police #PoliceBrutality #acab #PoliceMurder #scab #antiracism #solidarity #BlackMastadon
With Glacier, eight justices sabotaged the most powerful weapon unions have: the strike.
The Teamsters got whacked by the Supreme Court and now the right to strike is on life support. And only Ketanji Brown Jackson stood up to say that what the Court is doing is wrong. The latest in #thenation
#labor #strike #workers #Corrupt #SCOTUS #corruption #darkmoney #harlancrow #lenardLeo #Fascist
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/glacier-supreme-court-unions-strike/
On yesterday’s anti-worker Supreme Court decision, what they missed is the fundamental nature of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. It is a grand compromise. The act protected the free flow of commerce by enshrining certain rights to workers.
By undermining the right to strike, the federal government threatens this compromise and forces workers to reconsider the types of industrial actions that were more common before 1935.
Apparently if the artists end up on #strike you end up with well drawn picket signs.
Also the actors and directors guild are also having contractual problems similar to that of the the writers.
"Hollywood is staring down the barrel of a triple strike"
https://www.vox.com/culture/23746816/strike-wga-dga-sag-hollywood
Also I finished reading the article and the writers worries of getting replaced by AI and receiving low residuals from streaming are also a major concern for the other Hollywood unions. The article also points out at no point have all three unions ever gone on strike at the same time before, though that is looking like it is quite likely to happen at this time.
Today in Labor History June 2, 1917: IWW Fifty IWW teamsters won a strike for higher wages and better conditions in Atkins, Iowa. On that same day, IWW macaroni workers called off their strike in Chicago due to interference by the AFL. And in Pittsburgh, also on this same day, Fifteen Wobblies were arrested on charges of conspiracy against the US and released.
#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #IWW #union #strike #wobblies #teamsters #conspiracy
Unions Can Still Strike—Don't Let the Supreme Court Tell You Otherwise https://labornotes.org/2023/06/unions-can-still-strike-dont-let-supreme-court-tell-you-otherwise #1u #unions #labor #strike
Today in Labor History June 1, 1916: The predominantly immigrant iron miners of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, participated in a seemingly spontaneous strike in response to expensive housing and goods, long hours and poor pay. The group was led by radical Finns who quickly drew the attention and aid of IWW organizers. Wobbly organizers, including Carlo Tresca, Joe Schmidt, Frank Little, and later Joe Ettor and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn came to help local strike leaders draw up a list of demands which included an 8-hour day timed from when workers entered the mine until they were outside; a pay-scale based upon the day worked; pay-days twice monthly; immediate back-pay for hours worked upon severance; abolition of the Saturday night shift; abolition of the hated contract mining system. In the Contract Mining system, the bosses hired and paid “skilled” miners to do most of the mining. The contract miners then had to hire their own laborers and pay them out of their meagre wages. The contract miners were often native-born people, while the laborers were often immigrants. This created a racialized two-tiered system that divided the workers and made it harder to organize. The bosses would routinely offer the contract miners a minor concession to get them back to work, while offering the even more poorly paid laborers nothing, destroying their solidarity and ending the strike.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #wildcat #Mesabi #iron #mining #solidarity #immigrant #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #FrankLittle #racism
Today in Labor History June 1, 1906: The bloody Cananea copper miners' strike began in Sonora, Mexico. The miners were demanding 5 pesos a day and an 8-hour workday, commensurate with what the U.S. citizens who were working side-by-side with them were earning. As many as 100 miners were killed in the strike, mostly by U.S. citizens working for the company. Although they were forced back to work without winning any of their demands, it contributed to the general unrest leading up to the Mexican Revolution.
The anarchist, Ricardo Flores Magón, along with members of his Partido Liberal Mexicana, organized a brigade of revolutionaries, who traveled from Arizona to the Cananea copper mines with the goal of exterminating all Americans employed there. The Arizona Rangers captured several of them. Magón and many others were extradited to Tombstone, Arizona, charged with violating U.S. neutrality laws, and imprisoned until 1910. After this, the Magonistas conquered parts of Baja California, including Tijuana, during the Mexican Revolution.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #cananea #mexico #copper #mining #anarchism
#RicardoFloresMagon #strike #massacre #mexico #Revolution
Today in Labor History May 31, 1913: The IWW Marine Transport Workers strike against United Fruit ships in New Orleans spread up the Atlantic coast. The Sailors Union of the Atlantic (AFL) joined them in New Orleans. On June 13, 1913, police officers and private security guards opened fire on the strikers, killing two and wounding several.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #NewOrleans #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #police #acab #union #strike
@gemelliz
When will the unions coordinate on a province-wide strike? They have to power to do this. This government has clearly shown they don’t care about Saturday protests. The only thing they understand is money.
[Our small business would gladly close for a provincial strike to protest the privatization of our healthcare system.]
#onpoli #Ontario #Healthcare #Grift #Privatization #Corruption #Strike
Today in Labor History May 30, 1937: “Memorial Day massacre:” Police attacked striking steelworkers, shooting many in the back, killing 10 and wounding 100, at the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. 1937 – In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, police open fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing 10 and wounding more than 160. The press called it the “Red Massacre,” as if to justify police violence and murder of working class people.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #MemorialDay #massacre #strike #union #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #police #acab #chicago #steel
Today in Labor History May 29, 1941: Animators working for Walt Disney begin a five-week strike for recognition of their union, the Screen Cartoonists’ Guild. Disney’s initial response was to fire them. However, the union held fast and ultimately prevailed, winning union recognition. Still, dozens of Disney’s best animators left for good, joining other studios or, as in the case of Hank Ketchum (creator of Dennis the Menace), starting their own studio, United Productions. At the time of the strike, the Disney animators were working on Dumbo. The clowns in the film were a caricature of strikers, when they “hit the big boss for a raise.”
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #union #disney #animation #hollywood #dumbo
Today in Labor History May 26, 1937: The "Little Steel" strike began in Ohio. Over 600 workers picketed at Republic’s mill in Cleveland, while virtually every one of its 6,500 workers abandoned the mill. The National Guard was used to crush the strike, first in Youngstown, and then in Canton, Massillon, Warren and Cleveland. They completely busted the strike by mid-July. Overall, 100,000 steel workers and miners working for the steel companies struck in seven states. Four days later, police killed 10 strikers at Republic Steel in Chicago, in the Memorial Day Massacre.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #police #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #acab #steel #chicago #MemorialDay
Today in Labor History May 26, 1937: Henry Ford unleashed his company goons on United Auto Workers organizers at the “Battle of the Overpass” near the River Rouge plant. General Motors and Chrysler signed collective bargaining agreements with the UAW in 1937, but Ford held out until 1942. Ford Motor Co. security guards attacked union organizers and supporters attempting to distribute literature outside the plant. The guards tried to destroy any photos showing the attack. However, a few survived and they inspired the Pulitzer committee to establish a prize for photography.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #union #uaw #HenryFord #scabs #photography #pulitzer
Today in Labor History May 26, 1851: Stevedores and longshoreman struck in San Francisco. This was the first documented longshore strike in California. They were demanding six dollars per day, which was a lot in those days. However, the gold rush caused massive inflation and six dollars was not much in light of that. They also were fighting for a nine-hour work day and one dollar per hour overtime. In the wake of this successful strike, organizers formed the Riggers’ and Stevedores’ Association.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #SanFrancisco #stevedore #longshoremen #inflation #wages
Today in Labor History May 26, 1824: Women and girls led the first recorded factory strike in US history. 102 women and girls walked off the job at Slater Mill, in Pawtucket, and picketed their factory.
Two days prior, the owners had increased working hours by an hour per day with no additional pay. Additionally, they slashed the pay of power-loom weavers by 25%. Those affected were all women and girls aged 15 to 30. According to the bosses, the girls had already been earning “extravagant wages.”
The owners were caught off guard. They were not expecting a protest. Indeed, no U.S. factories had ever experienced a strike. Perhaps even more shocking, other workers and community members joined them in solidarity. They blockaded the mills and hurled rocks at the mansions of the owners. On the final day of the week-long strike, workers set one of the mills on fire. The next day, the owners agreed to negotiate and agreed on a compromise.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #women #sabotage #girls #solidarity
Threat of strike action secures pay rise for cleaners at Mercedes Benz
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/26/threat-of-strike-action-secures-pay-rise-for-cleaners-at-mercedes-benz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=threat-of-strike-action-secures-pay-rise-for-cleaners-at-mercedes-benz #MercedesBenz #strike
Today in Labor History May 25, 1936: The notorious 11-month Remington Rand strike began. Remington Rand made office equipment, like typewriters. The federal union striking against them was affiliated with the AFL. The strike spawned the “Mohawk Valley (N.Y.) formula,” described by investigators as a corporate plan to discredit union leaders, frighten the public with the threat of violence, and use thugs to beat up strikers. The National Labor Relations Board termed the formula “a battle plan for industrial war.” No one died during the strike, but violence was rampant. Both sides fought with bricks, bottles, fists, clubs and other weapons. However, it was later revealed that many of the violent acts on the workers’ side were committed by agents provocateur, employed by the company. Remington Rand also hired large numbers of private security to protect their scabs and properties. Furthermore, local police were used to intimidate entire towns. Squads of cops armed with shotguns would stand guard at the edge of town, demanding identification from anyone wishing to enter or leave.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #police #PoliceBrutality #acab #scabs
Let's not forget those who came before them and helped pave the way:
Today in Labor History May 16, 2007: Baristas at the Starbucks in East Grand Rapids announced their membership in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union. Starbucks was and is notorious for their poor treatment of workers. The NLRB slapped them with numerous anti-labor violations and forced them to settle the Grand Rapids dispute in October.
More payment for failure:
Head of the #PostOffice is standing down after badly managing the #postalworkers #strike, lying to the #Horizon inquest & overseeing a drastic decline in postal services;
On top of receiving his £525k annual salary until Oct., he's getting a further £290k in lieu of notice, what looks to be a £67k pension top-up & may still get a further bonus (for what, who knows)?
The #CWU are glad to see him go, but rightly point out, there's other rubbish managers still in post!
Help support the #WGAStrike and others in the #Entertainment #industry affected by the #Hollywood #writers' #strike:
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-support-wga-writer-strike
As much as I loved Andor and my #StarWars tv series, I can wait until the #WGA strike is satisfactorily over #strike #WGAStrike #WGAStrong
Showrunner Tony Gilroy Ceases Producing Services on ‘Andor’
Solidarity with striking workers across the world, today and every day! The union makes us strong.
I've written a blog post about why I'm on #strike today. It shows how the public sector pays £32k for a "software developer" where the private sector pays £35-70k. We struggle to recruit and retain staff and services are suffering.
https://all-geo.org/volcan01010/2023/03/why-i-went-on-strike-over-civil-servant-pay/
I just finished watching LABOR WARS OF THE NORTHWEST: THE STRUGGLE THAT DEFINED THE REGION
Blurb: "...chronicles the cauldron of discontent, radicalism and violence that permeated the region in the early decades of the twentieth century."
Fascinating film. So much I never knew about my region.
#IWW #union #strike #labor #LaborMovement #LaborRights #socialism #capitalism #Wobblies #PNW #Seattle #racism #PoliceViolence
I watched it on #Kanopy https://www.kanopy.com/
"If we don’t strike for this right now, the AI technology will advance so quickly that it will no longer be possible to negotiate a fair contract in the context of AI."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9gkq/striking-writers-are-on-the-front-line-of-a-battle-between-ai-and-workers
#Tech #writers #labor #Union #strike #protest #Netflix
@kswenger @victoriadecapua @BlackAzizAnansi
For those wondering, this tactic is working. Well.
"WGA members picketing in New York today shut down production on American Horror Story at Silvercup Studios with support from fellow union members in IATSE and Teamsters, who refused to cross the picket line.
On Day 2.
We're just getting started. #writersstrike #wgastrong
https://twitter.com/kaitlinfontana/status/1653913143691857922
@kswenger @victoriadecapua @BlackAzizAnansi and, of course, people can donate to the community fund. A lot of people will be hurting financially during the strike. This is a way to help hold them up.
https://entertainmentcommunity.org/services-and-programs/social-services-financial-assistance
@kswenger @victoriadecapua @BlackAzizAnansi
This was amplified at the in-person meeting last night. People joining us at the picket lines is one of the most powerful things they can do to help. Other unions are saying they won't cross picket lines. The bigger, more powerful the lines are, the better. There will be lines in more cities than NY and LA. Stay tuned.
🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH News from #Boston. It's 59F at Logan airport and visibility is 10 miles.
First Republic Bank has failed and was quickly sold to another bank.
Hollywood #television and #movie writers are on #strike.
In #Boston, a homeless encampment was swept by the city. See story in reply to this toot.
When we consider the #WGA #strike we might think it's big bad studios & their greedy leaders being unwilling to given even an inch to the lowly #writers. There's a lot of truth in that, but there's also the fundamental nature of the situation. In other words, it's #ClassStruggle. #Capitalists (those who own the #studios & control the money) want to profit off the #labor of others. It's not just about some people being bad, it's also structural & ideological, like any other capitalist system.
The writers are on STRIKE!
This is the first time since 2007, when the #WGA #writers struck for 100 days and ended up with a mediocre deal. The results of that deal play into today's #strike.
Below is a #documentary about the 2007 strike. It's quite good and provides a look into many of the same issues writers have today, as well as what striking is like.
It will be interest to see how the current strike plays out. I hope they come to a good agreement soon.
#WritersGuild of America to #strike for first time in 15 years after failed negotiations with studios #UnionStrong
BBC News - #Palestinian Khader #Adnan dies in #Israel jail after 86 days on #hunger #strike
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-65452946
Today in labor history April 30 1886: 50,000 workers in Chicago were on strike. 30,000 more joined in the next day. The strike halted most of Chicago’s manufacturing. On May 3rd, the Chicago cops killed four unionists. Activists organized a mass public meeting and demonstration in Haymarket Square on May 4. During the meeting, somebody threw a bomb at the cops. The explosion and subsequent gunfire killed seven cops and four civilians. Nobody ever identified the bomber. None of the killer cops was charged. However, the authorities started arresting anarchists throughout Chicago.
Ultimately, they tried and convicted eight anarchist leaders in a kangaroo court. The men were: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fisher, George Engel, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, Samuel Felden and Oscar Neebe. Only two of the men were even present when the bomb was thrown. The court convicted seven of murder and sentenced them to death. Neebe was give fifteen years. Parson’s brother testified at the trial that the real bomb thrower was a Pinkerton agent provocateur. This was entirely consistent with the Pinkertons modus operandi. They used the agent provocateur, James McParland, to entrap and convict the Molly Maguires. As a result, twenty of them were hanged and the Pennsylvania mining union was crushed. McParland also tried to entrap WFM leader, Big Bill Haywood, for the murder of Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. Steunenberg had crushed the WFM strike in 1899, the same one in which the WFM had blown up a colliery. However, Haywood had Clarence Darrow representing him. And Darrow proved his innocence.
On November 11, 1887, they executed Spies, Parson, Fisher and Engel. They sang the Marseillaise, the revolutionary anthem, as they marched to the gallows. The authorities arrested family members who attempted to see them one last time. This included Parson’s wife, Lucy, who was also a significant anarchist organizer and orator. In 1905, she helped cofound the IWW. Moments before he died, Spies shouted, "The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today." And Engel and Fischer called out, "Hurrah for anarchism!" Parsons tried to speak, but was cut off by the trap door opening beneath him.
Workers throughout the world protested the trial, conviction and executions. Prominent people spoke out against it, includin Clarence Darrow, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and William Morris. The Haymarket Affair inspired thousands to join the anarchist movement, including Emma Goldman. And it is the inspiration for International Workers’ Day, which is celebrated on May 1st in nearly every country in the world except the U.S.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #haymarket #LucyParsons #IWW #EmmaGoldman #strike #union #8HourDay #PoliceBrutality #KillerCops #prison #DeathPenalty #Pinkertons
Good writeup of many #HigherEdWorkersUnite actions in context from @willbunch
"There’s been too little conversation about how the 2023 strike wave has become the most potent symbol that the American Way of College has grown increasingly unsustainable in the 21st century. ...
This is the year that the plates are crashing down."
I'm on #strike today for better pay and conditions for civil servants
UK #teachers’ #strike dates: When and where are schools affected?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-63283289