Wow, why hasn’t this Cemex decision been front-page national news?? #labor #laborrights #uspol

From: @doctorow
https://bird.makeup/users/doctorow/statuses/1699470661817884971

Bernie Sanders Champions '32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay'

https://www.commondreams.org/news/4-day-workweek-bernie-sanders

#BernieSanders #32HourWorkWeek #NoLossInPay #WorkLifeBalance #LaborRights #ProgressivePolicies #Politics #News

let #Powells ownership know you support their workers need for a living wage!! they are striking for it, today! #PDX #laborRights #unionStrong

https://chng.it/9MkgVJx7pv

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Biden Appointees Just Made It Easier For Workers To Form Unions

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-nlrb-cemex-case-unions_n_64f0f674e4b0ca54cc6c0de0

#BidenAppointees #WorkersUnions #NLBRCemexCase #EasierUnionFormation #LaborRights #WorkersRights #Politics #News

Google Books

book: Texas After The Civil War

"With the demise of the Davis administration, the Texas Democratic party took over the reins of government and controlled them virtually unchallenged until the middle of the twentieth century. At least through the nineteenth century, the Redeemer Democrats who represented the plantation, merchant, and railroad interests that had come to dominate the party by the end of Reconstruction remained in control and shaped not only party policy but also that of the state government. Their basic positions on public affairs began to be formed almost immediately during the sessions of the Fourteenth Legislature as party leaders attempted to secure three major goals. The first was to lower taxes as much as possible, a purpose that cemented small farmers to the party and fulfilled the desires of the large landed interests of the state, including planters and by this time the railroads. The second objective was the continued encouragement of economic development through aid to railroads and other such endeavors, though without raising taxes. And the third was securing the state's landed interests' control over labor. A new constitution in 1876 provided the institutional framework that assured that the Redeemers achieved these ends. Democratic politics throughout the rest of the century revolved around the use of whatever means were needed to maintain power to meet the party's aims.

"The Fourteenth Legislature began the process necessary for Democrats to gain their political goals, but from the beginning, party leaders realized that achieving them required changes in the basic institutions of government. As a result, during the first session, they initiated efforts at writing a new consti- tution. Governor Coke and other Democratic leaders originally wanted law- makers to carry out this task, avoiding the costs of a convention and also lim- iting the possibilities that an open fight would take place between the party's regular leadership and the agrarians. A committee drafted a document that differed from the Constitution of 1869, before its amendment, primarily in its provisions for supporting internal improvements and carrying out elections. The proposal confirmed the use of land grants as a means of encouraging the development of a transportation system, maintained a system of voter regis tration, and added the requirement that all voters had to pay a poll tax, a feature clearly intended to restrict black participation. What would have been the Constitution of 1874 failed to pass both houses of the legislature, however. This led to a constitutional convention in 1875.

"The convention met at Austin on September 6, 1875, and remained in ses- sion for almost three months. Democrats dominated the proceedings, and even though disputes developed between the delegates who represented the controlling interests of the party and agrarians-possibly forty of the ninety delegates were members of the Grange-they produced a draft constitution..."

chapter: Conservative Triumph
page 199

#confederacy
#CivilWar
#history #USHistory
#conservatives
#taxes
#LaborRights
#corporations

(26 Aug) - Sanders Demands Fair Contract for Nearly 2,000 Nurses on Strike in New Jersey https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-demands-fair-contract-for-nearly-2000-nurses-on-strike-in-new-jersey/ #SandersFairContract #NursesStrikeNJ #HealthcareWorkers #LaborRights #CollectiveBargaining #WorkersRights #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110957949157573718

Sanders Demands Fair Contract for Nearly 2,000 Nurses on Strike in New Jersey

https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-demands-fair-contract-for-nearly-2000-nurses-on-strike-in-new-jersey/

#SandersFairContract #NursesStrikeNJ #HealthcareWorkers #LaborRights #CollectiveBargaining #WorkersRights #Politics #News

My newest newsletter is out on @/substackinc@bird.makeup at long last! It covers topics on #archives #laborrights #libraries #librarians #archive #animation #anime #climatechange #genealogy #history Give it a read if you have a chance! https://historyhermann.substack.com/p/from-pop-culture-reviews-and-archives #newsletters

Omission
Credits denied, apologies
Unequal, unfair, unjust
Injustice, labor, rights
Lost

#baldursgateiii #localization #apologies #laborrights #cinquain #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/baldurs-gate-iii-localization-studio-apologizes-for-omitting-contract-workers-from-credits-195936678.html

Zoom, the number one app that allows remote work to be broadly realized, is now demanding that its employees stop working from home. This apparently is pissing off their workers, and for good reason.

Between this and the recent privacy concerns, it looks like #Zoom is going to fuck things up good. #remotework #laborrights

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/zoom-return-to-office-announcement-18283831.php

"These #algorithms are very good at making such predictions, which makes them adept at generating output that seems to tap into real intelligence and knowledge." - Sounds like #AI is better suited for replacing CEOs, not creatives. Just sayin' ...

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-adversarial-attacks/
#llms #ceos #laborrights #Strikesummer

The actors and drivers, they will take a stand
Of their rights, they don't wish to make a demand
It's 2023, with so much going wrong
Workers on strike this summer won't just stay calm

#strikes #activism #laborrights #workersrights #poetry

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/8/2/23815980/hot-strike-summer-labor-union-actors-writers-drivers

How #BlackWorker #Solidarity Advanced #LaborRights for All;
A scholar uncovers her family’s story, and America’s.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/black-worker-solidarity

Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston leads actors’ strike rally in New York: ‘We will not allow you to take away our dignity’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jul/25/actors-strike-bryan-cranston-rally-new-york Award-winning actor led a starry event with a fiery speech aimed at Disney CEO Bob Iger: ‘We will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots.’ #film #TV #laborrights #performersrights #uslaw #uspol

We last raised the US federal minimum wage 14 years ago. This is unacceptable

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/us-federal-minimum-wage-rev-william-barber

#MinimumWage #USFederal #Unacceptable #RevWilliamBarber #IncomeInequality #LaborRights #Politics #News

One worker emphasized that the raise was crucial for their livelihoods, especially with the rising costs of living. In Virginia, a right-to-work state, unions face challenges, but this success proves their impact. While only 3.7% of Virginian workers were represented by unions, the number has been growing since Democrats took power in 2019. Though not repealing right-to-work, Democrats passed reforms making it easier for public employees to unionize. Let's celebrate this victory and the power of collective bargaining! 🙌 #UnionWins #LaborRights #Solidarity

📢 Great News from Virginia Commonwealth University! Cleaners secured a 35% raise in their FIRST union contract! Their hourly wages will increase from $12 to $16.30 🎉 The Service Employees International Union’s property services division, 32BJ, negotiated this deal for 220 workers who keep public spaces clean at VCU.

https://www.vpm.org/news/2023-07-14/cleaners-vcu-virginia-commonwealth-union-contract-raise
#UnionWins #LaborRights #Solidarity

I am on here begging for money almost weekly to buy food, and I know a number of people who are regular visitors to the food pantries in town, and you're gonna hit me with THIS on a Monday morning? Fuck this, fuck the institutions rating this, and fuck #captitalism. #UF #LaborRights @academicchatter

Fran Drescher’s fiery speech against Hollywood studios goes viral as actors strike https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jul/14/fran-drescher-speech-actors-strike-writers-strike-sag-aftra-hollywood-ceos “What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor, when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run,” she said. #laborrights #film #TV #Hollywood #actors #performers #writers