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Workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 5 voted to authorize a strike at Safeway locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the North Coast, citing unfair labor practices and “bad faith bargaining.” Workers have been without a contract since April.

#strike #unions #union #strikes #workersrights #socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

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Times-Standard · Northern California Safeway workers vote to authorize strikeBy Robert Schaulis
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Thousands of members voted nearly unanimously to authorize both an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) or an Economic strike, should either option become necessary. This show of solidarity demonstrates our collective strength and commitment to securing the fair agreement our members deserve.

#strike #unions #union #strikes #workersrights #socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

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A local sanitation workers strike that began on July 1 in Boston, Massachusetts, and left trash unpicked across the city is now spreading nationwide in a series of labor actions coordinated by the Teamsters union as frustrated workers demand better pay and benefits from Republic Services, a major waste disposal company.

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share.google · Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread NationwideAs work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.
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Twin Ports hospital nurses voted to ratify a new three-year contract with Essentia Health on Thursday as East Market advanced practice providers joined the picket line alongside workers in Duluth and Superior.

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Duluth News Tribune · More Essentia workers strike, hospital nurses ratify contractBy Brielle Bredsten
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 11, 1892: Frisco Mine was dynamited by striking Coeur D’Alene miners after they discovered they had been infiltrated by Pinkertons and after one of their members had been shot. The striking miners belonged to the Western Federation of Miners. Prior to this, the mine owners had increased work hours, decreased pay and brought in a bunch of scabs to replace striking workers. Ultimately, over 600 striking miners were imprisoned without charge by the military in order to crush the strike.

You can read my article on the Pinkertons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/?s=pinke

#workingclass#LaborHistory#mining
Darker Knight

heatstrike.uk/

Meltdown Monday: Day of online action


On Monday 14 July, we will take online action, sharing the campaign and calling for action against heat.

This is an inclusive campaign designed for anyone, anywhere!

Tipping Point Tuesday - Day of banner drops


Form a banner drop crew and shout it from the roof tops with a banner drop!

Go for a location affected by heat, or where the banner is impossible to ignore!

→ How to do a banner drop
→ Health and safety for banner drops

Workers Wednesday - Day of lunchtime walk-outs


On your lunch break, gather your union members together, and take a photo outside you workplace, holding heat strike placards, banners, and union banners or flags.

→ How to organise a lunchtime walk-out

Warm Weekend - Cool stations across our communities


Set up a Cool Station to help your community in the heat and talk to them about why we need the government and businesses to act on the climate and protect workers from the impacts of extreme weather.

→ How to run a cool station

Any day when it’s hot


Bring a thermometer to your workplace, take a picture of it and post it online using the hashtag #HeatStrike #TooHotToWork

→ If you are a Health & Safety Rep, sign up to receive a thermometer from the TUC
Logo wall of participating organisations

Animal Rising
Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union
Campaign Against Climate Change
Climate Justice Coalition
Climate Resistance
Disability Rights UK
Equity
Extinction Rebellion
Fire Brigades Union
Fossil Free London
Friends of the Earth
Fuel Poverty Action
Green New Deal Rising
Greenpeace
Hazards
Just Stop Oil
Medact
Tipping Point UK
TUC
War On Want

#ClimateChange#climate#ExtremeHeat
R. Scott Pert

#India - Over 250 million people participated in the nationwide strike across India, making it one of the largest worker mobilizations in the country's history.

The protest, organized by major trade unions, targeted the Modi government's new labour codes, which unions argue undermine workers' rights and job security. Key sectors like banking, transport, and manufacturing were affected.
frontline.thehindu.com/news/wo #labor #strike #unions #labour

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor and Writing History July 10, 1917: The Jerome Deportation occurred in Arizona. On July 5, IWW workers struck at Phelps Dodge mines, in Jerome, Az. Mine supervisors, along with a hastily formed “Citizens Committee” made up of local business leaders, rounded up and deported over 100 Wobblies (IWW members) to Needles, CA, and told them to never return. Two days later, after seeing how successful they had been in Jerome, they launched an even bigger deportation in Bisbee, Az. This time, they rounded up roughly 2,000 Wobblies from the Phelps Dodge mines in Bisbee, Az, and deported them to New Mexico.

“Bisbee ‘17,” (1999) by Robert Houston, is a historical novel based on the Bisbee deportations. There was also a really interesting film of the same name that came out in 2018. In the film, the town’s inhabitants reenact the events of the Bisbee deportation 100 years later. It also includes interviews with current residents.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #IWW #wobblies #bisbeedeportation #mining #arizona #vigilantes #film #book #novel #writer #author #HistoricalFiction @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 10, 1894: The Pullman Rail Car strike was put down by 14,000 federal and state troops. Over the course of the strike, soldiers killed 70 American Railway Union (ARU) members. Eugene Debs and many others were imprisoned during the strike for violating injunctions. Debs founded the ARU in 1893. The strike began, in May, as a wildcat strike, when George Pullman laid off employees and slashed wages, while maintaining the same high rents for his company housing in the town of Pullman, as well as the excessive rates he charged for gas and water. During the strike, Debs called for a massive boycott against all trains that carried Pullman cars. While many adjacent unions opposed the boycott, including the conservative American Federation of Labor, the boycott nonetheless affected virtually all train transport west of Detroit. Debs also called for a General Strike, which Samuel Gompers and the AFL blocked. At its height, over 200,000 railway workers walked off the job, halting dozens of lines, and workers set fire to buildings, boxcars and coal cars, and derailed locomotives. Clarence Darrow successfully defended Debs in court against conspiracy charges, arguing that it was the railways who met in secret and conspired against their opponents. However, they lost in their Supreme Court trial for violating a federal injunction.

By the 1950s, the town of Pullman had been incorporated into the city of Chicago. Debs became a socialist after the strike, running for president of the U.S. five times on the Socialist Party ticket, twice from prison. In 1905, he cofounded the radical IWW, along with Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood and Irish revolutionary James Connolly. In 1894, President Cleveland designated Labor Day a federal holiday, in order to detract from the more radical May 1st, which honored the Haymarket martyrs and the struggle for the 8-hour day. Legislation for the holiday was pushed through Congress six days after the Pullman strike ended, with the enthusiastic support of Gompers and the AFL.

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