"Labor #unions successfully #organized more than 58,000 #workers through the National Labor Relations Board’s election process in the first six months of 2023, a massive influx of workers on a scale that we’ve rarely seen before—but that we’re likely to see again.

The 662 NLRB representation elections won by unions in the year’s first half covered a total of 58,543 workers, according to Bloomberg Law’s just-released NLRB Election Statistics report. That’s the second-highest first-half organizing total in this century.

By itself, this statistic isn’t the surest measurement of labor strength; all it takes is one freakishly large election result to make a six-month period appear a lot more impressive than it really was. (This is exactly what happened in May 2013: A bargaining unit of nearly 45,000 already-unionized workers switched representation from one union to another through the NLRB election process, raising the midyear total to 67,687.)

No such anomaly is present in 2023. The sheer number of #union wins so far this year, surpassing even last year’s Starbucks-studded total, makes it plain that this current wave of organized workers is no fluke."

:antifa_100:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysis-unions-on-a-roll-are-reeling-in-the-workers

P6 - Labor Unions | The Coup

“Stand Up | Flobots : Fight With Tools
Generals and Majors | XTC : Black Sea
There Is Power in a Union | Billy Bragg : Live at the Union Chapel London
Roll the Union On | John Handcox : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Workers’ Song | Dick Gaughan : Handful Of Earth
Talking Union | The Almanac Singers : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Ghetto Manifesto | The Coup : Party Music
Captain Sterling’s Little Problem | The Coup : Pick a Bigger Weapon
Strange Arithmetic | The Coup : Sorry to Bother You
Not Yet Free | The Coup : Kill My Landlord
See It Through | Ryan Harvey : Folk The Banks
Well May The World Go | Tao Rodriguez-Seeger : Folk The Banks”

#LaborDay #Labor #Unions #Music #PoliticalMusic

#TheCoup

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/2017/4/1/p6-labor-unions-the-coup

by #HamiltonNolan:

"A new research paper by UC Berkeley economists finds that there are indeed (as anyone who has moved from a small town to a humming big city knows) earnings premiums for workers who live in certain areas—but 'local housing costs at least fully offset local pay premiums.' That is to say they found that all or more of the extra money that a worker earns by moving into an economically strong area is clawed back by housing costs. That big raise that your union fought for in the last contract? Send that right on over to the landlord."

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/housing-is-a-labor-issue

#housing #unions #union #workers #labor #landlords #rent #pay

A lot of #unions use the slogan "An injury to one is an injury to all" but I've always found this rephrasing to be a little clearer and more positive: A victory for one is a victory for all! #union #labor

Why are they called #producers ? They produce nothing

#strike #hollywood #unions #writers #actors #FuckCapitalism #killtherich #anarchy

You don’t like it when workers cooperate to increase their wages by cooperating with each other?

Let me introduce you to…the firm with more than one owner.

#capitalism #unions

You don’t like it when workers cooperate to increase their wages by cooperating with each other?

Let me introduce you to…the firm with more than one owner.

#capitalism #unions

Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism

"Historian Lawrence Britt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.

3. Identification of #Enemies/#Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…

4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.

7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. #Fraudulent #Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

@folkerschamel
I think you might better sit down. Your standup is broken.

@SallyStrange

#Unions #c #cpp

So wait, let me get this right. Creatures have been roaming the planet for millions of years, thousands of years ago humans come along, and around three hundred years ago capitalism kicks in with its "endless growth" and "endless extraction" bullshit and already the planet is wrecked, there's climate chaos, and we're experiencing our hottest years ever and people are getting burns from touching the fucking pavement, and the capitalist class and their spokespeople in power don't give a shit because they're confident they and theirs will hold out on resources way longer than the rest of us, at the barrel of a gun if they have to, since there'll be enough desperate fools to accept scraps to keep protecting them from us. And in the meantime they'll continue to promote the same old filthy industries and agriculture, de-fund public transit, buy up social media to openly and proudly promote misinformation, and use their state and corporate media hierarchies to ensure ignorance towards the climate emergency like they have the ongoing pandemic, or just keep pushing back already-laughable environmental "targets" while they keep laughing at us, extracting resources and profits, filling their coffers, fucking the planet, and introducing sweeping surveillance and protest bans, to the point where someone like me, even with my privileges, will end up in prison just for existing or for anarchist thought; someone who never did shit to anyone, just dared to engage in (shock!) noncompliance in their wretched little system, doing no harm and taking no shit. Take care of one another! Organise! We can't aid and abet these policymaking mass murderers in sharp suits. We can't lose our humanity. After all, *humanity* never *was* compatible with capitalism. #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CapitalismIsADeathCult #Capitalism #anarchism #solidarity #organise #unionise #unions #RentersUnion #RentersRights #TransRights #LGBTQ #RefugeesWelcome #WeAreThe99Percent #ACAB #Abolition #FuckCars #PublicTransit #community #urbanism

As an excellent example, the convergence of an XR chapter with a local squatters movement. The climate activists recognizing the synergy of place-based "generative refusal" (Leanne Simpson) with the squatters, and getting involved in place-based resistance and a strategic material intervention to change the system in that city. Same story with Atlanta and #StopCopCity ...

... whose work has resulted in hundreds of people — including the middle class people and workers, who seem so elusive to other climate movements — getting involved in mass protest and advocating abolitionist and ecological perspectives to local government. Example here, from a firefighter in Atlanta talking abolition perspectives to the government:

https://twitter.com/MarxistUnityDSA/status/1665861210598785027?s=20

"If you listen to any of the #StopCopCity public comment, you can hear how deeply abolitionist frameworks have taken root––so many people, whether identifying as abolitionists or not, articulated a vision of safety dependent on resources and relationships, rather than policing." — @micahinatl

(Posted on Groundtalk here: https://groundtalk.land/#2023-07-30T12:31:19.48+00:00)

#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActivism #StopCopCity #LandDefense #WaterProtector #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #squat #autonomous #abolition #atlanta #movement #MovementBuilding #MutualAid #strategy #organizing #activism #anarchy #anarchists #solidarity #pagan #antifa #decolonize #DualPower #labor #MiddleClass #workers #unions

#hotunionsummer #Union #Unions #workersrights #sagaftra #wgastrike #nys #nyc

Actor/Writers Strike News Be Like...

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#wgastrong #wgastrike2023 #wgastrike #writersstrike #writersstrike2023 #wga #sagaftra #sagaftrastrong #sagaftrastrike #sagaftraonstrike #hollywood #hollywoodstrike #taxtherich #taxtherichfeedthepoor #eatherich #eattherichfeedthepoor #EatTheRich #reelsinstagram #reels #reel #funnyreel #funnyvideo #funnyvideos #funnyreels #funnyvid #funnyvids #comedyreels #comedyvids #comedyreel #comedyvideos #comedyvid #comedyvideo #solidarity #unions #unionsolidarity #union #unionstrong

for new #followers: i love abortion, drag queen story times, reparations, stripper #unions, #antifascist ideology, all decolonial efforts, drug addicts, welfare queens, trans activists, sex ed in schools, rioting, and of course looting ❤️ death to america :antifa_100:

Don't vote, get #organized. #Labor #unions, #neighborhood unions and #housing unions await you. :antifa_100:

No votes, organízate. Los sindicatos laborales, de barrio y de vivienda te esperan.

https://www.tumblr.com/plagiarmola/722574396215132160/dont-vote-get-organized-labor-unions?source=share

#Unions
#IWW
#classconsciousness
https://jadesaab.com/consciousness-revolution-and-the-iww-73cfaed5df93

Exam Questions. A Poem ✍️

Dedicated to the teachers on strike tomorrow in the UK. Solidarity.
1. a) If Johnny has pay below inflation, and Rishi gives him 9%, how much money does he actually get?
b) If Johnny spends £500 on energy, and £450 on food, how much of his budget does he have left?
c) How long before human being works themselves to death?
2. Finish the sentence: Teachers in the UK are _______
a) understaffed
b) underfunded
c)bereft
3.What was the news article talking about?
a) the economy
b) the Prime Minister
c) seven unions walking out
4. a) Using current inflation rates, calculate if the pay rise offer means workers lose.
b) If so, what course of action should workers chose?
5. Does the Prime Minister’s statement use a CLASS structure argument? Explain your answer.
6. What did the Prime Minister call the industrial action?
a) a calamity
b) chaos
c) a cancer
7. If teachers won the strike, calculate what they’d gain.
8. If a worker gives Rishi his time and effort, what else does he have to lose?
a) his home
b) his money
c) his chains
9. Change the world. Show your working.

Originally posted here: https://tygertone.medium.com/exam-questions-f85b9bb3d18a

#poetry #poem #strikes #teachers #NEU #unions #Britain

Hello new arrivals. I'm Mr. Mustache Anarcho-Socialist heavy on the #anarchism. #Southern #Appalachian by birth and family. #Pansexual because if I like you, I WILL find a way for us to both enjoy ourselves. The particular plumbing arrangement is irrelevant compared to the PERSON.

I spend my time here talking a lot about current events because I care. #Legal issues because that is my work. #Unions especially #IWW because we are stronger together and fuck the bosses. #Heathen issues because I am a Hard Polytheist Norse Pagan and don't really care about anyones opinions of my personal faith. And I will absolutely be #HornyOnMain because puritanical values are regressive and self destructive. #Kink because 90% of intimacy is mental and humans are INFINITELY creative with what gets them going, and it is FACINATING. #Polyamory because I love all of my partners, and love is the one infinite resource.

I am a big proponent of content warnings and alt text. We have the tools to make fedi a more #accessible and welcoming place for everyone than Birdshit, alienface, or booko'faces ever dreamed of being. You're kinda a shitheel if you don't care about your fellow workers and other humans. There is no algorithm here. No bonus points for being the fastest or most prolific meme spammer. Do the work, help others.

Now sit back, enjoy some shine, and let's talk this out.

by #KatieMyers in @grist:

"Even if we don’t think of our jobs as climate-related, most industries have climate impacts, and workers have used that fact to push their workplaces toward a more responsible relationship with the environment. Among that number are healthcare workers like McLaren, Amazon employees and Uber drivers working to reduce their companies’ emissions, steel workers pushing for a green transition, and many, many more who have seen their workplaces as sites of agitation for climate justice, and as opportunities to create a healthier world."

https://grist.org/looking-forward/looking-to-join-a-climate-community-try-your-workplace/

#unions #workers #GreenEnergy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateJustice #Grist

“Let’s #protest the US #invasion of Vietnam by going on #strike!”
Sōhyō (The General Council of Trade #Unions of Japan)
#Japan
#1960s