Direct Support – Erste Woche in Vertimiglia

Direct Support ist eine Gruppe, die seit einigen Jahren in die Kleinstadt Ventimiglia, an der italienisch-französischen Grenze fährt, um dort people on the move und bestehenden Aktivitäten engagierter Gruppen vor Ort auf verschiedene Art und Weise zu u...
https://radiocorax.de/direct-support-erste-woche-in-vertimiglia/

#Beitrge #Nachhren #Strike

Dropping in on the #TUC conference today…

Y’day, Congress agreed to complain to the UN about the UK government’s anti-strike legislation.

A reminder that union-busting, by employers or gov’ts, including restricting the right to #strike, is stupid as well as spiteful… the industrial relations equivalent of disconnecting smoke alarms to reduce pressure on the fire service.

Not to mention: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable."

#tradeUnions

https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2023/09/11/after-record-earnings-large-scale-walkout-looms-at-chanel-korea.html

#Chanel #Korea strike: Chanel #profits up 74%, allocates 95% as #dividends to head office

#ChanelKorea #union #unions #strike #strikes #capitalism #WageSlavery #ClassWar #Luxembourg

https://vancouversun.com/news/national/bc-grocery-store-workers-to-benefit-from-gains-made-by-unifor-with-metro-strike

#Unifor #Metro #strike raises the bar for #GroceryStore workers across the country

Unifor-Metro deal helps set floor for future agreements. Big Three have come under fire in recent years for high #profits amid skyrocketing #inflation.

#capitalism #unions #union #UnionStrong #ClassWar #exploitation #Safeway #Canada #UFCW #Empire #Loblaw

(Art)ificial Intelligence in Creative Mediums - Where we started, where we are, and what will the future hold?

#WGAStrike #SAGAFTRA #Strike #AI

https://journeysloane.com/2023/09/11/artificial-intelligence-in-creative-mediums/

New from Solzy at the Movies: The Disney Revolt by Jake S. Friedman

#TheDisneyRevolt #Disney #Books #Bookstodon #Labor #Strike

https://www.solzyatthemovies.com/2023/09/11/the-disney-revolt-by-jake-s-friedman/

#BBCNews - #UK #government to be reported to #UN over #strike law by #TUC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66720206

Today in Labor History September 10, 1897: A sheriff and deputies killed 19 striking miners and wounded 40 others in Lattimer mine, near Hazelton, Pennsylvania during a peaceful mining protest. Many of those killed were originally brought in as strikebreakers, but then later organized and joined the strike. The miners were mostly Polish, Lithuanian, Slovak and German. The massacre was a turning point for the UMW. Working and safety conditions were terrible. 32,000 miners had died from 1870-1897, just in the northeastern coalfields of Pennsylvania. Wages had dropped 17% since the mid-1890s.

The strike began in mid-August, when teenage mule drivers walked off the job to protest the consolidation of stables, which had forced them to walk much further just to get to work. After a scuffle between drivers and supervisors, two thousand men walked out, as well. Soon, all the mines in the region had joined the strike. Most of the men who weren’t already members of the UMW quickly joined the union. Up to 10,000 miners were now on strike. The mine owners’ private police, known as the Coal & Iron Police (miners called them Cossacks, for their brutality), was too small to quash the strike, so they called on the sheriff to intervene. He mustered a posse of 100 Irish and English immigrants, who confronted the miners as they marched toward Latimer, on Sep 10. Along the way, they joked about how many miners they were going to kill.

The massacre provoked a near uprising. The sheriff called for the deployment of the National Guard, which sent 2,500 troops to quell the unrest. 10 days later, a group of Slavic women, armed with fire pokers and rolling pins, led 150 men and boys to shut down the McAdoo coal works, but were stopped by the National Guards. The sheriff, and 73 deputized vigilantes, were put on trial. However, despite evidence clearly showing that most of the miners had been shot in the back, and none had been armed, they were all acquitted.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #coal #mining #union #strike #latimer #massacre #police #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #immigration

Manitoba Liquor Workers Defeated Government And Their Employer

The struggle against Conservative austerity and reckless privatization continues.

by Adam D.K. King
September 4, 2023

#Manitoba #labour #labor #strike #strikes #workersrights

https://www.readthemaple.com/manitoba-liquor-workers-defeated-government-and-their-employer/

New Il-2 Sturmovik video:

Slowly developing my (very rudimentary) ground attack skills.

Low level attack in an Ilyushin Il-2 'Sturmovik' 1941 (1 series) armed with RS-82 rockets on German armour approaching Moscow.

Got a bit close to the ground, but happy overall. Definitely need more strike practice, though!

#Gameplay #Aviation #WW2 #EasternFront #GroundAttack #Strike #Il2 #Tanks #Rockets

https://youtu.be/HaGd2xB_63Y

Today in Labor History September 9, 1981: The Sandinista government banned all strikes. We’re a workers’ paradise, motherfucker. We don’t need strikes! Yippie!

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #Nicaragua #Sandinista #socialism #union #strike

Today in Labor History September 9, 1919: Boston police walked off the job during the strike wave that was spreading across the country. The police had affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, prompting the police commissioner to suspend 19 of them for their organizing efforts, and prompting other cops to go on strike. Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge announced that none of the strikers would be rehired and he called in the state police to crush the strike. However, over half of them showed solidarity and refused to work. Coolidge then mustered the state militia and created an entirely new police force made up of unemployed World War I veterans, and Harvard students. The poorly trained “cops” killed 9 people during the strike. But all the blame was placed on the strikers. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson called their strike a crime against civilization. AFL President Samuel Gompers urged the cops, whom he represented, to return to work. The press attacked the striking cops as Bolsheviks. The NY Times wrote: “A policeman has no more right to belong to a union than a soldier or a sailor. He must be ready to obey orders, the orders of his superiors, not those of any outside body. One of his duties is the maintenance of order in the case of strike violence. In such a case, if he is faithful to his union, he may have to be unfaithful to the public, which pays him to protect it.” And ever since, the cops and their “unions” (professional association might be a more appropriate term) have overwhelmingly followed the NYT advice, rarely striking themselves (~25 in the U.S. over the past 100 years) and eagerly attacking other working class people who are on strike.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #police #cops #bolshevik #ww1 #NYTimes

Dominic Keating, who played Lt. Reed on #StarTrek #Enterprise, pickets at #Paramount. "It's a mixed bag...we really enjoyed shooting the show and we made lasting lifelong #friendships," he said. Since then, he's seen gotten residual checks for as low as $15. He says the pay and the roles in #TV are not what they once were. "I have not made #HealthInsurance in over eight years, and I was on a hit show for this studio. That's not right." #SAGAFTRA #WGA #union #strike https://www.npr.org/2023/09/09/1198567210/star-trek-picket-line-actors-strike

How scary headlines about 'economic impact' of strikes erode solidarity

> Why do our media only ever talk about about “economic losses” caused by strikes, but none of our media giants like CNN or NBC can take the time and resources to figure out how strikes can benefit workers and society?
https://therealnews.com/how-scary-headlines-about-economic-impact-of-strikes-erode-solidarity #union #strike #labor #solidarity #unions #labour #unionstrong

Support striking Durham sanitation workers! ✊💛✨

https://gofund.me/a2b2cc10

#solidarity #strike #DurhamNC #mutualAid

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2023/september/manufacturing-workers-in-chesterfield-to-strike-over-parity-pay-and-real-terms-pay-cuts/

#UK #ERIKS: 100% of electromechanical engineers vote to #strike

#ERIKSstrike #strikes #union #unions #Chesterfield #inflation #PayCut #ClassWar #capitalism

https://www.rtbu.org.au/adelaide_trams_to_stop_all_day_on_tuesday

#Australia trams: free rides for passengers after Tuesday's #strike

#strikes #union #unions #UnionStrong #DirectAction #ClassWar #Exploitation #Capitalism

According to the Evergreen Education Association, the Evergreen School District superintendent John Boyd threatened to withhold pay from striking teachers and non-striking support staff (separate unions) if they didnt return to work by Monday, the 11th
more details/context here:
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/evergreen-teacher-strike-union-superintendent-withhold-pay/283-8dcad924-e524-4f8a-9c6b-4abb2c41d3ab

#portland #pdx #vancouver #Washington #washingtonstate #school #strike #evergreen #news #local #kgw

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/metro-grocery-store-unifor-strike-part-time-work-wages

#Metro grocer: #Local414 rejected #Unifor negotiation to go on #strike

#syndicalism #unions #union #strikes #ClassWar #capitalism #exploitation

Strikes
Threaten, loom
UAW pushes back
President unconcerned
Talks, breakdown

#uaw #strike #labor #union #biden #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/uaw-leader-warns-strike-biden-suggested-wasnt-worried-talks-looking-wa-rcna103824