All that is essential to understand about the labour rights in the governments programme is this:

it is meant to crush the labour movement and unions while cementing the pay gap between genders. Its not the claimed “nordic model” it is the american “work 3 jobs = have no money = no rights” model.

https://www.ku.fi/artikkeli/4912640-sttk-lyttaa-hallituksen-talouspolitiikan-aanestajia-on-johdettu-harhaan

#naziJokeGovernment #politics #politicsFI #finland #generalStrike #LabourMovement #unions

@ehasbrouck

Classic pincer political move: present the public with a seemingly inescapable lose, lose situation.

Option A: Trumpian fascism
Option B: Increased suppression of any form of civil disobedience by neoliberal state.

The only effective Option C, as I see it:
#GeneralStrike*

*Limited time offer. Act now or Option C will expire.

@futurebird i remember hearing something like this, but i wouldn't expect the boss to acknowledge a successful labor action. #GeneralStrike and #Boycott of #capitalism could work and would be undeniable in their success.

#community #together can save humanity

Today in Labor History September 3, 1920: Workers took over and occupied nearly all the factories in Spezia, Italy, in opposition to both the bosses and the union leadership. 600,000 workers participated in the occupations. They continued operations, but under their leadership and control, rather than the bosses’. Their goal was to build the movement into a revolutionary General Strike and to create a workers’ socialist republic in which the workers controlled all industry. Union leadership, in collaboration with the government and plant owners, eventually convinced most workers to accept a sell-out deal. And by February, 1921, the owners went on the offensive against the workers, aided by Fascist thugs.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #italy #fascism #GeneralStrike #union #occupation #Revolution #socialism

Today in Labor History September 3, 1915: Australian Wobbly (IWW member) Tom Barker was arrested for his anti-war poster. Later that month, 12 other IWW leaders got 5-15 years, each, for opposing World War I. Prior to this, he was forced out of New Zealand for helping to organize the Aukland General Strike. After the Australian authorities arrested him, he was deported to Chile, before traveling the world helping to organize workers.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #TomBarker #australia #NewZealand #chile #union #GeneralStrike #antiwar

@persagen @Geoffberner The trick is to build mass social movements such that regardless as to who is in power, they will back off. We need politicians who are afraid of the people.

A case in point. In Ontario Doug Ford backed off on over riding the constitution against education workers after being threatened with a #generalstrike

I am now officially recognized as an "old person" in #Canada and the government now pays me for being an old person. For these payments, I thank the #Winnipeg #generalstrike participants of 1919, along with #Labour MP's JS Woodsworth and AA Heaps.

I know why my bread is being buttered and it isn't because of the generosity of this country's ruling class.

this is just disgusting honestly. #naziJokeGovernment #labourRights #rightWingPolitics #politicsFI #finland #politics #generalStrike

Today in Labor History August 27, 1917: The IWW was made illegal in Australia and their membership rolls were given to employers, leading to widespread repression. Despite all this, the IWW helped lead the General Strike of 1917.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #australia #ww1 #union #GeneralStrike

#GeneralStrike, anybody?

Oh yeah!

I heard Finnish unions say they're making preparations for labor action against our right-wing government.

Pleeeeeeeease let it grow into a general strike Q_Q

#unions #Finland #strike #generalstrike

The top of the giant trade unions already hinted at a general strike - Akava and STTK leadership comment: "Nothing has been ruled out”.

(I personally think there is no other way out of this fascist mess than good olde general strike. We’ll see if it comes to that next month.)

#generalStrike #unions #politicsFI #politics #finland #naziJokeGovernment #farRightPolicies

Today in Labor History August 22, 1917: Italian police opened fire on protesters against the hunger caused by World War I. Most of the protesters were women. The next day, workers declared a General Strike. On the 24th, a state of siege was declared, but the strike continued until the 26th. Police violence during the strike resulted in the deaths of 60 people.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #italy #WorldWar1 #massacre #hunger #famine #protest #GeneralStrike #women #police #PoliceMurder #PoliceBrutality

Today in Labor History August 21, 1920: Ongoing violence by coal operators and their paid goons in the southern coalfields of West Virginia led to a three-hour gun battle between striking miners and guards that left six dead. 500 Federal troops were sent in not only to quell the fighting, but to ensure that scabs were able to get to and from the mines. A General Strike was threatened if the troops did not cease their strikebreaking activities. This was just 3 months after the Matewan Massacre, in which the miners drove out the seemingly invincible Baldwin-Felts private police force, with the help of their ally, Sheriff Sid Hatfield. 1 year later, Sheriff Hatfield was gunned down on the steps of the courthouse by surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Agency. News spread and miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Over 100 people were killed in the 5-day battle, including 3 army soldiers and up to 20 Baldwin-Felts detectives. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. 1 million rounds were fired. And the government dropped bombs from aircraft on the miners, only the second time in history that the government bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against African American residents of Tulsa, during the so-called Tulsa Riots).

The Battle of Blair Mountain is depicted in Storming Heaven (Denise Giardina, 1987), Blair Mountain (Jonathan Lynn, 2006), and Carla Rising (Topper Sherwood, 2015). And the Matewan Massacre is brilliantly portrayed in John Sayles’s film, “Matewan.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #union #WestVirginia #matewan #BattleOfBlairMountain #uprising #CivilWar #GeneralStrike #tulsa #massacre #racism #books #fiction #film #writer #author #novel @bookstadon

@PacificNic @Perspective @hannu_ikonen

The irony is that Rand's solution for the problems with society is exactly the same as what we ended up coming up with.

A #GeneralStrike

Only instead of breaking technology and fucking off to a hidden plateaupia, we're considering not flipping the burgers for a few weeks.

mun aivot atm: KENRAALI LAKKO! KENRAALILAKKO! KENRAALI LAKKO! #generalStrike

https://www.ku.fi/artikkeli/4902284-sakn-eloranta-tykittaa-hallitukselle-irvokasta-puhua-ihmisten-auttamisesta-takaisin-tyoelamaan-kun-tyontekijan-asemaa-heikennetaan

We don’t have to keep living like this if we don’t want to! #GeneralStrike #FuckCapitalism #TakeBackYourLife #SolidarityEconomy #OrganizedLabor

Here’s a list of some of the shit our far right, nazi-joke-government is planning to push through regarding employees and trade unions.

i am personally rooting for a general strike since this is just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to backwards shit this government plans to hammer through.

#naziJokeGovernment #farRightPolitics #politics #politicsFI #finland #fuckNazis #cabinetOfHorrors #fascim #generalStrike #rightToStrike #joinATradeUnion #unions #tradeUnions

@intransitivelie

Haha, the *results* of inflation are long-lasting, even after the initial inflationary pressure subsides. We've all been handed a massive pay cut. And btw good luck getting back to point zero.

#GeneralStrike
@snrub

F*ck Capitalism€

#endcapitalism #generalstrike #bullshitjobs #stopactinglikeadults