Stand Tall Brother, Stand Tall Sister

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/vQzvbGfnbcyDXq3HNgbxRm

... . This time, Minnesota's general strike went national. Businesses in the Twin Cities and across the country closed for the day, as demonstrators in...

On Jan. 30, thousands of Minnesotans called off work and school and rallied in downtown Minneapolis in protest of President Donald Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown for the second Friday in a row.#immigration #metro #protest #strike
Thousands rally against ICE

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state?r=29jpsy&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay The evidence is there, the USA has become a Mafia state. The question is, is how long before the people take their country back? And will the U.K. have to get just as bad before its people rise up and serve justice against those who have corrupted it? #Freedom #Resist #Strike #Protest #BDS #EcocideFascists #EndTheFascistMob

UAW 4811 is having a vote of all Academic Student Employees (ASEs) to determine whether to strike over unfair labor practices by University of California.

If you're eligible, make sure your membership is in good standing and you've got your ballot, then vote.

If you're a disabled ASE, make sure you're letting this ableist-led union know what your concerns are at every meeting you can. It's a pretty corrupt union, but it's not as corrupt as UC Labor Relations is...

https://www.uaw4811.org/ #Labor #Strike #AcademicChatter

-1 days to the day that will make history!!!

Workers

From different countries 

Striking 

Together 

For human rights 

To stop armaments shipping 

For Palestine

For humanity!!!

The World Federation of Trade Unions, the militant voice of more than 105 million workers who live, work, and struggle in 134 countries across 5 continents, under the slogan “Dockworkers Don’t Work for War”.
#blocktheboat #noharbourforgenocide
#strike #wftu #stopgenocide 
https://www.wftucentral.org/wftu-solidarity-message-with-the-international-day-of-action-for-ports/

Laurentian University says tentative deal reached with striking faculty, with voting planned for weekend.
Laurentian University says the union representing its faculty will be sharing a tentative deal with a planned ratification vote this weekend. In a brief news release Thursday, the school says mediated talks that resumed this week have produced t...
#negotiation #strike #LaurentianUniversity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/tentative-deal-laurentian-university-strike-9.7075730?cmp=rss

UESF teacher strike in san francisco, first in over 50 years, is eminent. Set to start this Monday February 9.

Give the gift that keeps on giving: SOLIDARITY!

*donate to their strike fund
*join the picket lines
*keep you children home

Scabs are class traitors

#uesf #teachers #strike #union #solidarity #workingclass !

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we celebrate the life of Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927), a West Indian-American writer, speaker, educator, political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by union leader A. Philip Randolph as the father of Harlem radicalism and by John G. Jackson as "The Black Socrates." Harrison’s activism encouraged the development of class consciousness among workers, black pride, secular humanism, social progressivism, and free thought. He denounced the Bible as a slave master's book, and said that black Christians needed their heads examined. He refused to exalt a "lily white God " and "Jim Crow Jesus," and criticized Churches for pushing racism, superstition, ignorance and poverty. Religious extremists were known to riot at his lectures. At one of his events, he attacked and chased off an extremist who had attacked him with a crowbar.

In the early 1910s, Harrison became a full-time organizer with the Socialist Party of America. He lectured widely against capitalism, founded the Colored Socialist Club, and campaigned for Eugene V. Debs’s 1912 bid for president of the U.S. However, his politics moved further to the left than the mainstream of the Socialist Party, and he withdrew in 1914. He was also a big supporter of the IWW, speaking at the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike, and supporting the IWW’s advocacy of direct action and sabotage. In 1914, he began working with the anarchist-influenced Modern School movement (started by the martyred educator Francisco Ferrer). During World War I, he founded the Liberty League and the “Voice: A Newspaper for the New Negro,” as radical alternatives to the NAACP. The Liberty League advocated internationalism, class and race consciousness, full racial equality, federal anti-lynching legislation, enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, labor organizing, support for socialist and anti-imperialist causes, and armed self-defense.

You can learn more about the Modern School Movement here: https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-spring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #HubertHenryHarrison #blackhistorymonth #Revolution #communism #socialism #anarchism #IWW #union #strike #racism #lynching #birthcontrol #harlem #slavery #jimcrow #author #writer #nonfiction #books #BlackMastodon @@bookstadon

Saskatoon Paramedic Association votes 100% in favour of strike mandate
Saskatoon Paramedic Association members voted unanimously in favour of a strike mandate after struggling with recruitment and retainment challenges for years.
#strike #voting #Saskatoon #Canada #Health #EMS
https://globalnews.ca/news/11653131/saskatoon-paramedic-association-vote-strike-mandate/

Saskatoon Paramedic Association votes 100% in favour of strike mandate
Saskatoon Paramedic Association members voted unanimously in favour of a strike mandate after struggling with recruitment and retainment challenges for years.
#strike #voting #Saskatoon #Canada #Health #EMS
https://globalnews.ca/news/11653131/saskatoon-paramedic-association-vote-strike-mandate/

Saskatoon Paramedic Association votes 100% in favour of strike mandate
Saskatoon Paramedic Association members voted unanimously in favour of a strike mandate after struggling with recruitment and retainment challenges for years.
#strike #voting #Saskatoon #Canada #Health #EMS
https://globalnews.ca/news/11653131/saskatoon-paramedic-association-vote-strike-mandate/

Since the #WagnerAct legalized #unions, longshore workers in #Hawaii joined and, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1938, went out on #strike. On 1 August, #police were sent out to control them, but strikers threw back tear gas, so they shot 50 in the #HiloMassacre, including two children.

The union for ProPublica is raising money for a strike fund. Management has been trying to keep the option open to replace their workers with AI. Please share out:

https://union.place/@propublicaguild/116012773673157044

#union #solidarity #strike #news #AI #journalism

Today in Labor History February 4, 1979: Six workers were killed by police in the massacre of Cromotex, Lima Peru. The workers had taken over the factory after it went bankrupt and its owners tried to close it down. Led by a hardline revolutionary, Hemigidio Huertas, workers armed with sticks took the premises over. They held out for a week, killing a police captain in the process. When police later stormed the factory, they killed six workers including Huertas. One of the survivors, Nestor Cerpa, was arrested and jailed for 10 months. After his release, he went underground and started to organize the MRTA, or Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Peru, #tupacamaru #MRTA #massacre #policebrutality #tupac #union #strike #police #Revolutionary

Montreal left without garbage collection as blue-collar workers launch 24-hour strike
Roughly 6,000 blue-collar workers employed by the City of Montreal have launched a 24-hour strike as negotiations for a new deal continue.
#strike #negotiations #Montreal #Politics #Montrealpolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/11651881/montreal-blue-collar-worker-strike/

Today in Labor History February 4, 1921: A massacre at San Gregorio, Chile, left 565 nitrate miners dead. 1920 was a year of brutal repression of the workers movement. Many locals were burnt down, many agitators murdered, workers sent to prison. Prior to the San Gregorio massacre, the Chilean IWW led a three-month strike protesting the export of grain during a food shortage. Four years later, the Chilean government murdered another 500 saltpeter miners and family members in the Marusia massacre.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #IWW #massacre #Chile #murder #prison

Montreal left without garbage collection as blue-collar workers launch 24-hour strike
Roughly 6,000 blue-collar workers employed by the City of Montreal have launched a 24-hour strike as negotiations for a new deal continue.
#strike #negotiations #Montreal #Politics #Montrealpolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/11651881/montreal-blue-collar-worker-strike/

In honor of Black History Month, a short biography of Ben Fletcher (April 13, 1890 – 1949), Wobbly and revolutionary. Fletcher joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1912 and became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. Also in 1913, he led a successful strike of over 10,000 dockers. At that time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.

By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the IWW maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher travelled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him for treason, sentencing him to ten years, for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years. Fletcher supposedly said to Big Bill Haywood after the trial that the judge had been using “very ungrammatical language. . . His sentences are much too long.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #benfletcher #union #strike #philadelphia #longshore #docker #waterfront #worldwarone #prison #antiwar #freespeech #racism #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon

Today in Labor History February 4, 1869: Labor leader and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) co-founder William D. "Big Bill" Haywood was born. Haywood started mining at age nine. He became secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in 1900 and co-founded the IWW in 1905. He was a WFM organizer during the Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), in which 33 miners were killed.

At the IWW’s first convention (1905), he said, “We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working-class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working-class from the slave bondage of capitalism. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working-class in possession of the economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution, without regard to capitalist masters.” With the IWW, he came up with the propaganda ploy of sending workers’ kids out of town, for their own safety, during the Lawrence Textile Strike (1912), leading to a media backlash against the mill owners and the ultimate victory for the workers.

In 1907, he was falsely charged with the bombing murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg, but was acquitted with the counsel of Clarence Darrow. The WFM dismissed him in 1918 because of his radicalism. That same year, the Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (future first commissioner of Major League Baseball) convicted him of violating the Alien and Sedition acts during the first Red Scare for his antiwar activism. They sentenced him to 20 years in prison. However, he jumped bail and fled to the Soviet Union, where he died in 1928 from heart failure and alcoholism. His ashes were split between the Kremlin Wall Mausoleum and the Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #bigbillhaywood #IWW #WFM #haymarket #union #strike #capitalism #antiwar #socialism #sabotage #Soviet #communism #sabotage #GeneralStrike #mlb #kremlin