Strike and picket at RMIT tomorrow. City and Bundoora campuses. I hope a lot of people join in to help!

(And I hope security are supportive, although with the rate they took down our posters today, I doubt it).

#RMIT #NTEU #Solidarity #Union

Can't believe I didn't hear about this more a month ago, but a huge win for unions in the US.
#labor #union

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230808

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

Verizon employees getting screwed again.
#wagetheft #union #Verizon #HCLTech

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1o2V5kA3

Holy fuck, jedes Mal wenn ich #merz reden höre, frag ich mich ob er im nächsten Interview die Umbenennung der #Union in "Alternative union für Deutschland" bekannt gibt.

Vice: Grindr ‘Unlawfully’ Purged Staff at LGBTQ Dating App, Union Says https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3mq4y/grindr-unlawfully-purged-staff-at-lgbtq-dating-app-union-says #returntooffice #Grindr #Union #LGBTQ #NLRB

People who buy groceries in the Twin Cities may be interested to know that #union workers at Seward Coop (both locations) are currently working without a contract, and the bosses have thrown a hissy fit and walked away from the bargaining table.

If you think this is not great, you could give their admin office a call at 612-230-5555.

#Minneapolis #Minnesota

Wenn man #Berlindirekt schaut und die Vertreter der #Union sprechen hört könnte man denken, dass die #Ampel an allen Problemen schuld ist.

Aber am Beispiel #Wehretat muss man klar sagen, dass die #Union 16 bzw. 32 Jahre Zeit hatte, gute Politik zu machen und Probleme anzugehen.

Hat sie aber nicht, weswegen es heute wirklich scheinheilig ist, sich als große Problemlöser hinzustellen

Die #FDP verkommt zum Sprachrohr der #Union in der Koalition 🤮

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/sichere-herkunftslaender-debatte-gruene-fdp-1.6212908

IATSE made a great first step towards unionizing PA’s in the film industry.

https://iatse.net/production-workers-guild-local-111-chartered-as-new-national-local-union-within-iatse/

#Union #Filmmaking #ProductionAssistant

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

Vice: Grindr ‘Unlawfully’ Purged Staff at LGBTQ Dating App, Union Says https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3mq4y/grindr-unlawfully-purged-staff-at-lgbtq-dating-app-union-says #returntooffice #Grindr #Union #LGBTQ #NLRB

@chrisstoecker Einfach. Weil Mertz und seine Leute entschieden haben, mit der #fuckAFD zu koalieren.

FPÖ / ÖVP style.

Es geht um #fuckafd Weltanschauungen akzeptabel innerhalb der #union und seiner Wählerschaft zu machen.

Um Koalieren zu fordern.

She was more than a hero

She was #union #bimbo

;3

#SpookySeason Solidarity?

Guests at Universal's annual spooky season attractions were flyered by striking WGA writers. https://deadline.com/2023/09/a-scary-surprise-for-the-studios-as-wga-scribes-flyer-universal-studios-halloween-horror-nights-we-might-go-to-disneyland-next-1235538364/ #1U #union #spooky #halloween

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

Vice: Grindr ‘Unlawfully’ Purged Staff at LGBTQ Dating App, Union Says https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3mq4y/grindr-unlawfully-purged-staff-at-lgbtq-dating-app-union-says #returntooffice #Grindr #Union #LGBTQ #NLRB

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