#unionism — Public Fediverse posts

@jlou
There is one economic model that might fit your thinking, I remember seeing someone tooting about it a while back, darned if I can remember whom though or what it was called. The word ‘commons’ keeps coming to mind and I recall thinking at the time that this was a #Zombie economic model, an old system dressed up as new.

Of note though is that common ownership is already there in the public sphere. All public assets and services are commonly owned and failry democratic in operations (Unions rep are present in most Department management levels — I certainly participated and was very active in Defence). I would not expect any common ownership in private assets though the shareholder model does and that represents a restricted type of common ownership. I’d also contend that there is a level of democracy in annual general shareholders meetings as well.

Workers’ Coops work where the workers (including management) are the only shareholders of the means of production in a capitalist system. This is not new. There are working enterprises structured this way in the UK I believe. That these are not widely implemented speaks to issues and problems (though I’m ignorant of the specific cases or causes). A Communist system does no implement this in any way since everything belongs to the State as it does in a truly fascist system. Socialism is a many faceted beast and might have pockets of workers’ Coops but it would not exclude private enterprises either. All of these have been tried in part or in full and economic history is riddled with their remains. Unlike other economic models, Capitalist systems have been structured and shown to work using the whole gammut of possible structures, from #Slavery to privately owned empires. The same could not be said of other historical economic systems. In my view, the greater the diversity of structures the more likely it is to be a successful economic model as a whole and the greater the benefit to society in the aggregate.

If you can point me to economists proposing new models I’d really appreciate it (ommiting MMT ‘cause I know about that one already). Thank you for the conversation.

#Capitalism #Communism #Socialism #WorkersCoOp #MMT #Fascism #DemocracyInTheWorkplace #Unionism #Commons

@jlou
There is one economic model that might fit your thinking, I remember seeing someone tooting about it a while back, darned if I can remember whom though or what it was called. The word ‘commons’ keeps coming to mind and I recall thinking at the time that this was a #Zombie economic model, an old system dressed up as new.

Of note though is that common ownership is already there in the public sphere. All public assets and services are commonly owned and failry democratic in operations (Unions rep are present in most Department management levels — I certainly participated and was very active in Defence). I would not expect any common ownership in private assets though the shareholder model does and that represents a restricted type of common ownership. I’d also contend that there is a level of democracy in annual general shareholders meetings as well.

Workers’ Coops work where the workers (including management) are the only shareholders of the means of production in a capitalist system. This is not new. There are working enterprises structured this way in the UK I believe. That these are not widely implemented speaks to issues and problems (though I’m ignorant of the specific cases or causes). A Communist system does no implement this in any way since everything belongs to the State as it does in a truly fascist system. Socialism is a many faceted beast and might have pockets of workers’ Coops but it would not exclude private enterprises either. All of these have been tried in part or in full and economic history is riddled with their remains. Unlike other economic models, Capitalist systems have been structured and shown to work using the whole gammut of possible structures, from #Slavery to privately owned empires. The same could not be said of other historical economic systems. In my view, the greater the diversity of structures the more likely it is to be a successful economic model as a whole and the greater the benefit to society in the aggregate.

If you can point me to economists proposing new models I’d really appreciate it (ommiting MMT ‘cause I know about that one already). Thank you for the conversation.

#Capitalism #Communism #Socialism #WorkersCoOp #MMT #Fascism #DemocracyInTheWorkplace #Unionism #Commons

@jlou
There is one economic model that might fit your thinking, I remember seeing someone tooting about it a while back, darned if I can remember whom though or what it was called. The word ‘commons’ keeps coming to mind and I recall thinking at the time that this was a #Zombie economic model, an old system dressed up as new.

Of note though is that common ownership is already there in the public sphere. All public assets and services are commonly owned and failry democratic in operations (Unions rep are present in most Department management levels — I certainly participated and was very active in Defence). I would not expect any common ownership in private assets though the shareholder model does and that represents a restricted type of common ownership. I’d also contend that there is a level of democracy in annual general shareholders meetings as well.

Workers’ Coops work where the workers (including management) are the only shareholders of the means of production in a capitalist system. This is not new. There are working enterprises structured this way in the UK I believe. That these are not widely implemented speaks to issues and problems (though I’m ignorant of the specific cases or causes). A Communist system does no implement this in any way since everything belongs to the State as it does in a truly fascist system. Socialism is a many faceted beast and might have pockets of workers’ Coops but it would not exclude private enterprises either. All of these have been tried in part or in full and economic history is riddled with their remains. Unlike other economic models, Capitalist systems have been structured and shown to work using the whole gammut of possible structures, from #Slavery to privately owned empires. The same could not be said of other historical economic systems. In my view, the greater the diversity of structures the more likely it is to be a successful economic model as a whole and the greater the benefit to society in the aggregate.

If you can point me to economists proposing new models I’d really appreciate it (ommiting MMT ‘cause I know about that one already). Thank you for the conversation.

#Capitalism #Communism #Socialism #WorkersCoOp #MMT #Fascism #DemocracyInTheWorkplace #Unionism #Commons

@jlou
There is one economic model that might fit your thinking, I remember seeing someone tooting about it a while back, darned if I can remember whom though or what it was called. The word ‘commons’ keeps coming to mind and I recall thinking at the time that this was a #Zombie economic model, an old system dressed up as new.

Of note though is that common ownership is already there in the public sphere. All public assets and services are commonly owned and failry democratic in operations (Unions rep are present in most Department management levels — I certainly participated and was very active in Defence). I would not expect any common ownership in private assets though the shareholder model does and that represents a restricted type of common ownership. I’d also contend that there is a level of democracy in annual general shareholders meetings as well.

Workers’ Coops work where the workers (including management) are the only shareholders of the means of production in a capitalist system. This is not new. There are working enterprises structured this way in the UK I believe. That these are not widely implemented speaks to issues and problems (though I’m ignorant of the specific cases or causes). A Communist system does no implement this in any way since everything belongs to the State as it does in a truly fascist system. Socialism is a many faceted beast and might have pockets of workers’ Coops but it would not exclude private enterprises either. All of these have been tried in part or in full and economic history is riddled with their remains. Unlike other economic models, Capitalist systems have been structured and shown to work using the whole gammut of possible structures, from #Slavery to privately owned empires. The same could not be said of other historical economic systems. In my view, the greater the diversity of structures the more likely it is to be a successful economic model as a whole and the greater the benefit to society in the aggregate.

If you can point me to economists proposing new models I’d really appreciate it (ommiting MMT ‘cause I know about that one already). Thank you for the conversation.

#Capitalism #Communism #Socialism #WorkersCoOp #MMT #Fascism #DemocracyInTheWorkplace #Unionism #Commons

@jlou
There is one economic model that might fit your thinking, I remember seeing someone tooting about it a while back, darned if I can remember whom though or what it was called. The word ‘commons’ keeps coming to mind and I recall thinking at the time that this was a #Zombie economic model, an old system dressed up as new.

Of note though is that common ownership is already there in the public sphere. All public assets and services are commonly owned and failry democratic in operations (Unions rep are present in most Department management levels — I certainly participated and was very active in Defence). I would not expect any common ownership in private assets though the shareholder model does and that represents a restricted type of common ownership. I’d also contend that there is a level of democracy in annual general shareholders meetings as well.

Workers’ Coops work where the workers (including management) are the only shareholders of the means of production in a capitalist system. This is not new. There are working enterprises structured this way in the UK I believe. That these are not widely implemented speaks to issues and problems (though I’m ignorant of the specific cases or causes). A Communist system does no implement this in any way since everything belongs to the State as it does in a truly fascist system. Socialism is a many faceted beast and might have pockets of workers’ Coops but it would not exclude private enterprises either. All of these have been tried in part or in full and economic history is riddled with their remains. Unlike other economic models, Capitalist systems have been structured and shown to work using the whole gammut of possible structures, from #Slavery to privately owned empires. The same could not be said of other historical economic systems. In my view, the greater the diversity of structures the more likely it is to be a successful economic model as a whole and the greater the benefit to society in the aggregate.

If you can point me to economists proposing new models I’d really appreciate it (ommiting MMT ‘cause I know about that one already). Thank you for the conversation.

#Capitalism #Communism #Socialism #WorkersCoOp #MMT #Fascism #DemocracyInTheWorkplace #Unionism #Commons

This is what I miss the most, strong #Unionism without criminality and corruption (aka with constitutional and legal oversight).

“Breaking people into identity groups and having them fight each other has always played into the hands of the powerful because it undermines the more material bonds of class that unite us. When trade unions were stronger, they could provide a counterpoint by driving solidarity across race and gender from the shop floor up, championing material benefits such as equal pay, universal healthcare and super. As those networks have weakened, so has that consensus.” (Peter Lewis in The Guardan
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/feb/25/pauline-hanson-one-nation-popularity-lesson-for-progressives-ntwnfb )

#JoinYourUnionNow #Unionism #AusPol #PHON #UnitedWeStand #DividedWeFall #EatTheRich #Antifa

Hype for the Future 81C: The Irish Flag under the British

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/hype-for-the-future-81c-the-irish-flag-under-the-british/

É com grande pesar que o IHC comunica o falecimento de Cristina Nogueira.

Investigadora do IHC desde há mais de uma década, faleceu no dia 10 de Outubro.

Empenhada cívica e politicamente, poucas pessoas souberam como ela, com a sua coragem, persistência e generosidade, articular investigação e acção cívica.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/cristina-nogueira-memoriam/

#Histodons #RIP #InMemoriam #History #Resistance #PCP #Communism #Unionism #OralHistory #Comunismo #Resistência #Sindicalismo #HistóriaOral

É com grande pesar que o IHC comunica o falecimento de Cristina Nogueira.

Investigadora do IHC desde há mais de uma década, faleceu no dia 10 de Outubro.

Empenhada cívica e politicamente, poucas pessoas souberam como ela, com a sua coragem, persistência e generosidade, articular investigação e acção cívica.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/cristina-nogueira-memoriam/

#Histodons #RIP #InMemoriam #History #Resistance #PCP #Communism #Unionism #OralHistory #Comunismo #Resistência #Sindicalismo #HistóriaOral

É com grande pesar que o IHC comunica o falecimento de Cristina Nogueira.

Investigadora do IHC desde há mais de uma década, faleceu no dia 10 de Outubro.

Empenhada cívica e politicamente, poucas pessoas souberam como ela, com a sua coragem, persistência e generosidade, articular investigação e acção cívica.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/cristina-nogueira-memoriam/

#Histodons #RIP #InMemoriam #History #Resistance #PCP #Communism #Unionism #OralHistory #Comunismo #Resistência #Sindicalismo #HistóriaOral

É com grande pesar que o IHC comunica o falecimento de Cristina Nogueira.

Investigadora do IHC desde há mais de uma década, faleceu no dia 10 de Outubro.

Empenhada cívica e politicamente, poucas pessoas souberam como ela, com a sua coragem, persistência e generosidade, articular investigação e acção cívica.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/cristina-nogueira-memoriam/

#Histodons #RIP #InMemoriam #History #Resistance #PCP #Communism #Unionism #OralHistory #Comunismo #Resistência #Sindicalismo #HistóriaOral

É com grande pesar que o IHC comunica o falecimento de Cristina Nogueira.

Investigadora do IHC desde há mais de uma década, faleceu no dia 10 de Outubro.

Empenhada cívica e politicamente, poucas pessoas souberam como ela, com a sua coragem, persistência e generosidade, articular investigação e acção cívica.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/cristina-nogueira-memoriam/

#Histodons #RIP #InMemoriam #History #Resistance #PCP #Communism #Unionism #OralHistory #Comunismo #Resistência #Sindicalismo #HistóriaOral

Anyone at the Workers Governing Technologies workshop/conference on the Fedi?? I bet some of y'all are here. This is such an amazing gathering!!

#WorkersGoverningTechnologies #Cooperativism #CreativeLabourCriticalFutures #Labour #SolidarityEconomy #Unionism

Anyone at the Workers Governing Technologies workshop/conference on the Fedi?? I bet some of y'all are here. This is such an amazing gathering!!

#WorkersGoverningTechnologies #Cooperativism #CreativeLabourCriticalFutures #Labour #SolidarityEconomy #Unionism

Anyone at the Workers Governing Technologies workshop/conference on the Fedi?? I bet some of y'all are here. This is such an amazing gathering!!

#WorkersGoverningTechnologies #Cooperativism #CreativeLabourCriticalFutures #Labour #SolidarityEconomy #Unionism

Anyone at the Workers Governing Technologies workshop/conference on the Fedi?? I bet some of y'all are here. This is such an amazing gathering!!

#WorkersGoverningTechnologies #Cooperativism #CreativeLabourCriticalFutures #Labour #SolidarityEconomy #Unionism

Anyone at the Workers Governing Technologies workshop/conference on the Fedi?? I bet some of y'all are here. This is such an amazing gathering!!

#WorkersGoverningTechnologies #Cooperativism #CreativeLabourCriticalFutures #Labour #SolidarityEconomy #Unionism

📖 Do colóquio "Sindicalismo, Trabalho e Cidadania: 90 anos depois do 18 de Janeiro de 1934" resultou um livro que inclui um capítulo de Fátima Mariano, João Freire e Cristina Rodrigues sobre os "contextos envolventes do poder político-militar da #Ditadura, a situação do emprego e dos #sindicatos livres, e o processo de institucionalização dos Sindicatos Nacionais."

🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/34129

#Histodons #Unionism #Unions #LabourHistory #Sindicalismo #Trabalho

6 of la Suiza in jail!
https://www.iclcit.org/6-of-la-suiza-in-jail/
#Spain #repression #unionism #solidarity #ClassWar #CNT #ICL #unions #workingClass

We're listening to a social artifact from #Australia in the #1970s.

#Unionism, the bush, serious young men, & bush dance music all packaged up by #PaulHamlynPtyLtd for consumers.

#FreedomOnTheWallaby by #DaveDeHugard and the Bush Band.

" ... independence, mateship and disregard for the boss had already been established by the convicts, early settlers and miners ...".

Good stuff. Though the #FairGo was restricted in who was eligible - women & Chinese being just some of those excluded.

On May 1st 1890 in Paris, left-wing activists wore a red triangle:
🔻
One for 8 hours work,
one for 8 hours leisure,
one for 8 hours rest.

"Red triangle: the working-class origins of an anti-fascist symbol" (fr) https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste

#antiFascism #struggles #labour #labor #workHours #redTriangle #invertedTriangle #triangle #Mai1st #unionism #tradeUnions #Paris #LabourDay #LaborDay #OTD

On May 1st 1890 in Paris, left-wing activists wore a red triangle:
🔻
One for 8 hours work,
one for 8 hours leisure,
one for 8 hours rest.

"Red triangle: the working-class origins of an anti-fascist symbol" (fr) https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste

#antiFascism #struggles #labour #labor #workHours #redTriangle #invertedTriangle #triangle #Mai1st #unionism #tradeUnions #Paris #LabourDay #LaborDay #OTD

On May 1st 1890 in Paris, left-wing activists wore a red triangle:
🔻
One for 8 hours work,
one for 8 hours leisure,
one for 8 hours rest.

"Red triangle: the working-class origins of an anti-fascist symbol" (fr) https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste

#antiFascism #struggles #labour #labor #workHours #redTriangle #invertedTriangle #triangle #Mai1st #unionism #tradeUnions #Paris #LabourDay #LaborDay #OTD

On May 1st 1890 in Paris, left-wing activists wore a red triangle:
🔻
One for 8 hours work,
one for 8 hours leisure,
one for 8 hours rest.

"Red triangle: the working-class origins of an anti-fascist symbol" (fr) https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste

#antiFascism #struggles #labour #labor #workHours #redTriangle #invertedTriangle #triangle #Mai1st #unionism #tradeUnions #Paris #LabourDay #LaborDay #OTD

On May 1st 1890 in Paris, left-wing activists wore a red triangle:
🔻
One for 8 hours work,
one for 8 hours leisure,
one for 8 hours rest.

"Red triangle: the working-class origins of an anti-fascist symbol" (fr) https://www.solidaire.org/articles/triangle-rouge-les-origines-ouvrieres-d-un-symbole-antifasciste

#antiFascism #struggles #labour #labor #workHours #redTriangle #invertedTriangle #triangle #Mai1st #unionism #tradeUnions #Paris #LabourDay #LaborDay #OTD

"Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it.

If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, that’s fine; he’s making a case. The book is a compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces.

Blanc is clear that neither he nor the worker-organizers he writes about have invented the notion that workers should have control of their own organizing drives. He cites examples beginning with the early twentieth-century Wobblies to show that bottom-up, nonbureaucratized unionism is an ancient thread in our movement.

Today’s worker-to-worker unionism, in Blanc’s definition, means that workers train other workers in organizing methods, unlike the usual union practice of leaving that mentoring to staffers. The organizing drive itself is initiated by workers, rather than being chosen by union strategists. And the workers have a decisive say on day-to-day strategy — at least partly because there are just fewer staffers around. Hopefully, that’s also because the union has accepted the wisdom of letting workers lead."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/blanc-worker-organizing-starbucks-uaw

#Unions #LaborMovement #WorkerToWorker #Unionism

"Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it.

If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, that’s fine; he’s making a case. The book is a compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces.

Blanc is clear that neither he nor the worker-organizers he writes about have invented the notion that workers should have control of their own organizing drives. He cites examples beginning with the early twentieth-century Wobblies to show that bottom-up, nonbureaucratized unionism is an ancient thread in our movement.

Today’s worker-to-worker unionism, in Blanc’s definition, means that workers train other workers in organizing methods, unlike the usual union practice of leaving that mentoring to staffers. The organizing drive itself is initiated by workers, rather than being chosen by union strategists. And the workers have a decisive say on day-to-day strategy — at least partly because there are just fewer staffers around. Hopefully, that’s also because the union has accepted the wisdom of letting workers lead."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/blanc-worker-organizing-starbucks-uaw

#Unions #LaborMovement #WorkerToWorker #Unionism

"Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it.

If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, that’s fine; he’s making a case. The book is a compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces.

Blanc is clear that neither he nor the worker-organizers he writes about have invented the notion that workers should have control of their own organizing drives. He cites examples beginning with the early twentieth-century Wobblies to show that bottom-up, nonbureaucratized unionism is an ancient thread in our movement.

Today’s worker-to-worker unionism, in Blanc’s definition, means that workers train other workers in organizing methods, unlike the usual union practice of leaving that mentoring to staffers. The organizing drive itself is initiated by workers, rather than being chosen by union strategists. And the workers have a decisive say on day-to-day strategy — at least partly because there are just fewer staffers around. Hopefully, that’s also because the union has accepted the wisdom of letting workers lead."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/blanc-worker-organizing-starbucks-uaw

#Unions #LaborMovement #WorkerToWorker #Unionism

"Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it.

If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, that’s fine; he’s making a case. The book is a compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces.

Blanc is clear that neither he nor the worker-organizers he writes about have invented the notion that workers should have control of their own organizing drives. He cites examples beginning with the early twentieth-century Wobblies to show that bottom-up, nonbureaucratized unionism is an ancient thread in our movement.

Today’s worker-to-worker unionism, in Blanc’s definition, means that workers train other workers in organizing methods, unlike the usual union practice of leaving that mentoring to staffers. The organizing drive itself is initiated by workers, rather than being chosen by union strategists. And the workers have a decisive say on day-to-day strategy — at least partly because there are just fewer staffers around. Hopefully, that’s also because the union has accepted the wisdom of letting workers lead."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/blanc-worker-organizing-starbucks-uaw

#Unions #LaborMovement #WorkerToWorker #Unionism

"Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it.

If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, that’s fine; he’s making a case. The book is a compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces.

Blanc is clear that neither he nor the worker-organizers he writes about have invented the notion that workers should have control of their own organizing drives. He cites examples beginning with the early twentieth-century Wobblies to show that bottom-up, nonbureaucratized unionism is an ancient thread in our movement.

Today’s worker-to-worker unionism, in Blanc’s definition, means that workers train other workers in organizing methods, unlike the usual union practice of leaving that mentoring to staffers. The organizing drive itself is initiated by workers, rather than being chosen by union strategists. And the workers have a decisive say on day-to-day strategy — at least partly because there are just fewer staffers around. Hopefully, that’s also because the union has accepted the wisdom of letting workers lead."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/blanc-worker-organizing-starbucks-uaw

#Unions #LaborMovement #WorkerToWorker #Unionism

This is a call for a big demo and the start of a general strike the 5th of december 2024.

#iww #unionism #generalstrike #CIT #ozzip #usi #fora
@iwwita @belfastiww @northumbriaIWW @IWWRuhrgebiet @IclCit @pracownicza

This is a call for a big demo and the start of a general strike the 5th of december 2024.

#iww #unionism #generalstrike #CIT #ozzip #usi #fora
@iwwita @belfastiww @northumbriaIWW @IWWRuhrgebiet @IclCit @pracownicza

This is a call for a big demo and the start of a general strike the 5th of december 2024.

#iww #unionism #generalstrike #CIT #ozzip #usi #fora
@iwwita @belfastiww @northumbriaIWW @IWWRuhrgebiet @IclCit @pracownicza

#Historical #UnionSolidarity #Art.
“The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin. June 30, 1917.

The symbol of the clinched fist has been a symbol of #solidarity as early as 1917. “The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin is an illustration referring to the #IWW (Industrial Workers of The World). Industrial unionism began when skilled workers were displaced by modern machinery and the #monopolization of industries. It was a union that believed industries should be controlled by the workers, benefiting the many instead of enriching the few, and create better working conditions.

In this image, the workers are uniting their arms and creating one giant fist, which represents solidarity and #unity, while holding tools, representing manual labor, while factories in the backdrop symbolize the machinery displacing the workers.

#WorkerUnions #Unionism #TradeUnionHistory #UnionStrong

#Historical #UnionSolidarity #Art.
“The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin. June 30, 1917.

The symbol of the clinched fist has been a symbol of #solidarity as early as 1917. “The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin is an illustration referring to the #IWW (Industrial Workers of The World). Industrial unionism began when skilled workers were displaced by modern machinery and the #monopolization of industries. It was a union that believed industries should be controlled by the workers, benefiting the many instead of enriching the few, and create better working conditions.

In this image, the workers are uniting their arms and creating one giant fist, which represents solidarity and #unity, while holding tools, representing manual labor, while factories in the backdrop symbolize the machinery displacing the workers.

#WorkerUnions #Unionism #TradeUnionHistory #UnionStrong

#Historical #UnionSolidarity #Art.
“The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin. June 30, 1917.

The symbol of the clinched fist has been a symbol of #solidarity as early as 1917. “The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin is an illustration referring to the #IWW (Industrial Workers of The World). Industrial unionism began when skilled workers were displaced by modern machinery and the #monopolization of industries. It was a union that believed industries should be controlled by the workers, benefiting the many instead of enriching the few, and create better working conditions.

In this image, the workers are uniting their arms and creating one giant fist, which represents solidarity and #unity, while holding tools, representing manual labor, while factories in the backdrop symbolize the machinery displacing the workers.

#WorkerUnions #Unionism #TradeUnionHistory #UnionStrong

#Historical #UnionSolidarity #Art.
“The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin. June 30, 1917.

The symbol of the clinched fist has been a symbol of #solidarity as early as 1917. “The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin is an illustration referring to the #IWW (Industrial Workers of The World). Industrial unionism began when skilled workers were displaced by modern machinery and the #monopolization of industries. It was a union that believed industries should be controlled by the workers, benefiting the many instead of enriching the few, and create better working conditions.

In this image, the workers are uniting their arms and creating one giant fist, which represents solidarity and #unity, while holding tools, representing manual labor, while factories in the backdrop symbolize the machinery displacing the workers.

#WorkerUnions #Unionism #TradeUnionHistory #UnionStrong

#Historical #UnionSolidarity #Art.
“The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin. June 30, 1917.

The symbol of the clinched fist has been a symbol of #solidarity as early as 1917. “The Hand That Will Rule the World” by Ralph Chaplin is an illustration referring to the #IWW (Industrial Workers of The World). Industrial unionism began when skilled workers were displaced by modern machinery and the #monopolization of industries. It was a union that believed industries should be controlled by the workers, benefiting the many instead of enriching the few, and create better working conditions.

In this image, the workers are uniting their arms and creating one giant fist, which represents solidarity and #unity, while holding tools, representing manual labor, while factories in the backdrop symbolize the machinery displacing the workers.

#WorkerUnions #Unionism #TradeUnionHistory #UnionStrong

📖 Num artigo publicado na Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, o João Gabriel Caia disseca "a dinâmica da primeira eclosão sindical da história do trabalho rural em Portugal", bem como "o seu impacto na sociedade rural eborense".

🔓 Para ler em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_24-1_7

#Histodons #TrabalhadoresRurais #Sindicalismo #Évora #LutaDeClasses #RuralLabour #Unionism #ClassStruggle #HistoryOfPortugal #HistóriaDePortugal #OpenAccess #PeasantsRights #Peasants #PrimeiraRepública

How #Biden's #NLRB has Boosted Bottom-Up #Unionism (& Why this Matters) --
The Board's impact at #Starbucks, #Amazon, and beyond underscores the stakes of #November5

https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-bidens-nlrb-has-boosted-bottom

#AusPol #CFMEU #Greens #ALP #Unionism #UnionBusting #MaxChandlerMatherMP #GreenLeft

Labor, and the ABC, supposedly left-left wing organisations, are attacking the Greens and Max Chandler-Mather for supporting the CFMEU.

Hands off the CFMEU, we have a right to protest!

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/labor-abc-attack-greens-supporting-cfmeu

#AusPol #CFMEU #Greens #ALP #Unionism #UnionBusting #MaxChandlerMatherMP #GreenLeft

Labor, and the ABC, supposedly left-left wing organisations, are attacking the Greens and Max Chandler-Mather for supporting the CFMEU.

Hands off the CFMEU, we have a right to protest!

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/labor-abc-attack-greens-supporting-cfmeu

#AusPol #CFMEU #Greens #ALP #Unionism #UnionBusting #MaxChandlerMatherMP #GreenLeft

Labor, and the ABC, supposedly left-left wing organisations, are attacking the Greens and Max Chandler-Mather for supporting the CFMEU.

Hands off the CFMEU, we have a right to protest!

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/labor-abc-attack-greens-supporting-cfmeu

#AusPol #CFMEU #Greens #ALP #Unionism #UnionBusting #MaxChandlerMatherMP #GreenLeft

Labor, and the ABC, supposedly left-left wing organisations, are attacking the Greens and Max Chandler-Mather for supporting the CFMEU.

Hands off the CFMEU, we have a right to protest!

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/labor-abc-attack-greens-supporting-cfmeu

#AusPol #CFMEU #Greens #ALP #Unionism #UnionBusting #MaxChandlerMatherMP #GreenLeft

Labor, and the ABC, supposedly left-left wing organisations, are attacking the Greens and Max Chandler-Mather for supporting the CFMEU.

Hands off the CFMEU, we have a right to protest!

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/labor-abc-attack-greens-supporting-cfmeu

#AusPol #CFMEU #Protest #Unionism #Naarm #Gadigal #MaganDjin #Brisbane #Sydney #Melbourne #GreenLeft

Hands Off the CFMEU! Protest the union busting laws pushed through by Labor. Join Socialist Alliance in Magan-djin (Brisbane), Gadigal Country (Sydney) or Naarm (Melbourne) this Tuesday or Wednesday.

#CFMEU #unionism #AusPol #GreenLeft #democracy #workersRights #perth #boorloo #ALP

These photos are courtesy of Alex Salmon, a comrade. The article is Green Lefts coverage of the national mobilisation.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/tens-thousands-unionists-condemn-labor-actu-over-anti-cfmeu-law

#cfmeu #auspol #perth #boorloo #ALP #unionism

Today I marched with ~1000 unionists and pro-union activists to demand that the ALP stop the attacks on the CFMEU. It was a great turnout for Perth. I got over 100 signatures for a petition to the federal government to stop these attacks. If you are an Australian and in a union, check to see if your union has a statement backing the CFMEU and if they don’t ask them to write one. An injury to one is an injury to all. These attacks won’t stop with the CFMEU.

Socialist Alliances (my party) statement on the recent attacks on the CFMEU:
https://socialist-alliance.org/our-common-cause/2024-07-18/stop-attack-cfmeu-solidarity-construction-workers
#SocialistAlliance #CFMEU #Unionism #AusPol

No Paisley in Nothing Ireland politics for the first time since 1970.

That is seismic and transformational. Plus the #DUP have went from eight to five seats. Bad night for #Unionism.

No Allister in #Stormont - should work slighty better with him out of the way!

No Paisley in #Westminster - the expenses system breathes a sigh of relief!

Unfortunately, Allister is now in #Westminster Sorry lads in the House of Commons - you have to suffer him now too.