#labourmovement — Public Fediverse posts

The decline of union membership over the past forty years is due to inaction — and the movement only has a future if it can show that #solidarity is the antidote to authoritarian repression.

https://portside.org/2026-08-23/minnesota-unions-are-threat-trumps-authoritarianism

#ICEout #labourmovement #migrantworkers #Minnesota

For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.
By #KimKelly August 18, 2026

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-have-always-been-on-the-front-lines-of-the-labor-movement

#directaction #labourmovement #solidarity #workingclasshistory #youngworkers

60th 1966-Wave Hill Walk-off 2026 Freedom Festival
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-23/hundreds-march-in-freedom-festival-wave-hill-walk-off-60-years/107064186

#firstNations #Gurindji #labourmovement #landrights #Workingclasshistory

Union Members, Activists Defiant in the Face of Federal #Surveillance
their #solidarity with their immigrant members, and with each other, was indispensable as they worked together to defend immigrants from ICE during Operation Metro Surge.

https://portside.org/2026-08-21/union-members-activists-defiant-face-federal-surveillance

#ICEout #labourmovement #migrantworkers #Minneapolis #Minnesota #unions

Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod
- Dorothy Hewett 1946
https://unionsong.com/u399.html

More
https://www.unionsong.com/ebooks/thesismg.pdf

#labourmovement #songs #unions

May 1st 1946
800 Aboriginal #pastoralworkers walked off the large pastoral stations in the #Pilbara and from exploitation in the two major towns of #PortHedland and #MarbleBar. The strike did not end until August 1949
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilbara_strike

How The West Was Lost (film)
https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/120/587.html

About
https://www.pilbarastrike.org/

#firstnations #labourmovement #mayday #pilbara #strikes #workingclasshistory

Gather round, people, I'll tell you a story
An eight-year-long story of power and pride
'Bout British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiari
They were opposite men on opposite sides
Kev Carmody - Paul Kelly (1991)

23rd August 1966
#WaveHill walk-off/strike, by 200 #Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families, at #Kalkarindji cattle station lasting seven years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Hill_walk-off

#FirstNations #labourmovement #landrights #organize #solidarity #strikes #workingclasshistory

“Getting members to go through the hoops of fire that it takes to #organize, it’s a big ask; it is always amazing to me that workers do organize rather than that they don’t, because it is hard to organize, particularly in this very divisive society, coming together and building #solidarity.” - Kate Bronfenbrenner

https://portside.org/2026-08-20/kate-bronfenbrenner-union-organizers-scholar

#labourmovement #unions #workingclasshistory

@bluecollarwriter

https://disputesreport.substack.com/

#labourmovement #solidarity #strikes

The Chats - Smoko (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc

#labourmovement #Smoko

“Leave me alone, I’m on smoko”
- Chats (2017)

https://substack.com/home/post/p-211392421

#Labourmovement #smoko #workingclasshistory

@bluecollarwriter

https://hardhatbulletin.substack.com/about

#constructionworkers #hardhat #labourmovement

California Gig Workers Union - SEIU (Rideshare Drivers for Uber and Lyft)

https://capitalandmain.com/after-years-long-battle-california-rideshare-drivers-win-certification-can-they-win-a-contract

#drivers #gigworkers #labourmovement
#oragnize #solidarity #unions

Labor councils are important for building working-class power. From Tennessee to Vermont these vital organizations are organizing solidarity today, while honoring one champion, Vonda McDaniel.

https://portside.org/2026-08-17/union-unions-revitalizing-labor-councils

Source:
https://convergencemag.com/articles/a-union-of-unions-revitalizing-labor-councils/

#labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

Today several hundred thousand Indigenous #farmworkers from southern Mexico labor in fields, not just in California, but all over the U.S.
https://portside.org/2026-08-17/what-does-it-take-work-cauliflower-crew

(Interview)
https://progressive.org/topics/david-bacon/

https://mailchi.mp/igc/new-book-extraordinary-portraits-of-farmworkers-their-families-and-communities-5496444?e=33ed9a70b8

https://bittmanproject.substack.com/p/what-does-it-take-to-work-on-a-cauliflower?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=8mf9r&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Cauliflower #DavidBacon #LabourMovement #Photography #UFW #WeFeedYou

More #wildfires than ever before. #Firefighters and other emergency services battling against the odds to save lives and property. #Unions supporting their members, demanding action on the #climatecrisis.

https://www.labourstart.org/climate/

#fossilFuels #heatwaves #labourmovement

https://powerinnumbers.us/about/

https://linktr.ee/opinorg

#labourmovement #organize #unions

@angryeducationworkers

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/17/australia-victoria-teachers-union-vote-pay-deal

#educationworkers #labourmovement #rankandfile #strike #teachers

'One flag for each laid off dev:' Union workers stage unmissable protest for #Xbox boss Asha Sharma

It would be difficult to ignore the giant inflatable rat on the lawn.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-one-flag-for-each-laid-off-dev-union-members-stage-unmissable-protest-for-xbox-boss-asha-sharma

#CWA #GameWorkers #labourmovement #unions

(August 2026) https://labornotes.org/2026/08/federal-spies-hunt-minnesota-unions-search-conspiracy-find-solidarity

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.0_4.pdf

https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/feds-targeting-mn-orgs

(June 2026)
https://workdaymagazine.org/minnesota-trade-unionists-among-those-targeted-in-federal-indictments-of-ice-observers/

ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/how-nspm-7-seeks-to-use-domestic-terrorism-to-target-nonprofits-and-activists

#ICEout #labourmovement #minnesota #solidarity #surveillance #unions

https://www.industriall-union.org/if-metall-ends-tesla-strike

#autoworkers #Billionaires #Capitalism #labourmovement #Strikes #sweden #Tesla

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/gig-economy-labor-rights-workers

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uber-rideshare-exploitation-unions-organizing

CGWU
https://www.seiu521.org/press-release/california-gig-drivers-win-union

App Drivers & Couriers Union https://adcu.org.uk/

Rideshare Drivers United
https://www.drivers-united.org/

New York Taxi Workers
https://www.nytwa.org

LDU app-based delivery workers in New York City.
https://www.workersjustice.org/en/ldu

Digital Workers Inquiry
https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry?

ILO on “Platform Economy”
https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/2026-06/ILC114-Instrument%20C.193-EN.pdf

#deliverydrivers #gigworkers #labourmovement
#workingpoor

@acmeworks

1 July 2026 Australian National #MinimumWage is $26.44 per hour or $1004.90 per week
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages

#labourmovement #workingpoor

(Interview)
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/11/bryan_stevenson

#Capitalism #labourmovement #slavery #workingclasshistory

https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/iww-solidarity-with-lou

#iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

Britain abolished #slavery in 1833 parliament granted £20m compensation - for lost income - to former enslavers. Prominent British families moved to the colonies with proceeds of slavery’s abolition, most prolifically in South Australia, which prided itself on being “the free state” devoid of #convicts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/colonial-australias-foundation-is-stained-with-the-profits-of-british-slavery

https://theconversation.com/australias-hidden-history-of-slavery-the-government-divides-to-conquer-86140

#Capitalism #Colonialism #labourmovement #workingclasshistory

Bosses have always been keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb

#Capitalism #Colonialism #exploitation #labourmovement #migrantworkers #slavery #Townsville #workingclasshistory

Bloody Huge Profits
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-08/port-hedland-strike-importance-australia-largest-bulk-port/106994084

#BHP #Labourmovement #PortHedland #solidarity #strikes

#DirectAction 71 August 2026

https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/direct-action-71-newsletter-of-the-iww-ireland-branch

https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/iww-no-trump-here

#iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/03/class-war-in-sugartown/

ILWU
https://www.ilwu.org/international-longshore-and-warehouse-union-local-6-and-ch-sugar-company-inc-take-steps-toward-resolving-the-parties-contract-negotiations/

Capitalism Fanjuls style
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2001/02/floridas-fanjuls-200102?

#ILWU #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions