Totally disappointed by Drew Barrymore to continue her talk show.

#WGA #SagAFTRA
#Picketlines #Scab
#DrewBarrymoreScab

She's also waging war on #RoboScabbing: app employment "platforms" like #Instawork that recruit workers to cross #PicketLines, under threat of being blocked from the app and blackballed by hundreds of local employers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

With #Cemex, Abruzzo is restoring a century-old labor principle that has been gathering dust for generations: the idea that workers have the right to organize #WorkplaceDemocracies without fear of retaliation, harassment, or reprisals.

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While I'm sure no-one here thinks the #strikers are rabble-rousing anti-social lefties seeking to disrupt our wonderful system, it nevertheless is worth reading these first-hand accounts of the desperate circumstances that have driven people onto the #picketlines
#SupportTheStrikes
#SupportOurNurses
#SupportourTeachers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/why-we-strike-workers-reasons-joining-picket-line-britains-new-winter-discontent

Spent the last of the afternoon planning a tour of our #NHS members’ #picketLines, and I *might* be feeling a little emotional about it right now 🥲😭

I know: it’s Friday evening, and I’m thinking about work… but this is oxygen to me.

#SeeYouOnThePicketLine #strike #tradeUnion #solidarity

Finally got the video up of the latest episode for my #YouTube people. Sorry for the delay!

We need to #organize, #unionize, work together & make cause of common interests no matter our race, creed, culture & more important, no matter the race, creed, or culture of the #worker standing with us on the #picketlines as we fight for #wages, lives & health

#Unions aren’t the only way, but I would say the efficacy they bring to the fight is indispensable #podcast #leftisbest
https://youtu.be/evpv20dsIvw

Today is the day!!

For the first time in our 106 year history, #RCNStrike is well under way!

Thousands of #RCN members across the country are braving the bitter cold to join the #PicketLines and demand #FairPayForNursing.

I've got the easier, and definitely warmer job of helping to run the digital picket line and keep the social media coverage flowing.

If you spot our members out and about, honk your horns, wave your hands and share your love and support. 💙✊💙

#Strike #Union #Solidarity

A post on grad labor #strikes, #picketlines, and #solidarity:

In early-2000s grad strikes of the pre-zoom era, it was common for unions to ask faculty to move classes off campus rather than cancel them entirely, a tactic that came from earlier demands during clerical and technical worker and food service and maintenance worker strikes. In the context of grad worker strikes this allowed faculty and undergraduates to perform a kind of solidarity with strikers without denying education to undergraduates. At the cost of muting the effectiveness of the strike in disrupting business as usual, it allowed people who were broadly supportive of the union and strike to continue their daily routines and not feel that the strike had made them an enemy. This was a strategic decision on the part of the grad union’s leadership, often at the level of the international union. At NYU, GSOC spent significant time and money finding spaces to hold off campus classes at local bars and restaurants. A grad seminar on the history of capitalism met in the basement of a synagogue. The strike dragged on for more than six months, and classes continued to meet off campus.

When I say that this was a strategic decision, I mean that it is also one that was in some sense born out of the weakness and precarity of the solidarity between grad unions, faculty, and undergrads. The ask was small because if the ask was larger, allies might turn into enemies.

The new wave of strikes - and here I think the COLA wildcat that began at UCSC is the turning point - have turned away from this limited definition of a picket line in favor of a more expansive but also more traditional demand that faculty not teach at all during a strike, that they observe the picket line by performing no labor for the university. That tenured faculty are now being asked to actually refuse to perform their own labor in solidarity with striking grad workers and postdocs is perhaps a reflection of the strength that the grad labor movements now demonstrate as well as the ebullience and militance of their strikes. If the permissiveness of the old arrangements was a way to sidestep weakness, the expectation that faculty not teach is the an exercise in workers power to provoke immediate disruption. This is a very positive development, one that is perhaps necessitated too by the pandemic and rise of remote teaching which have made “off campus teaching” and “business as usual” very much synonymous. My point here is to argue that it nevertheless marks a kind of shift in how these strikes work, a shift that we should historicize as we try to tell the stories of these struggles, to understand where they came from and where they are going.

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=_RzE6518ggc

#DDN #DoubleDownNews

#JohnMcDonnell calls out #KeirStarmer

#costofliving #picketlines
#billionairesvhumans
#KeirStarmerRESIGN!!!!!

#LabourParty #TakeItBACK