#unions — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117277024414992521

so many #labor #unions intersect the #entertainment industries, we really need to push pressure on them to do the right thing and organize around this issue.

IF ANYTHING… #labor #unions involved in the #music #concerts touring business should be releasing statements about what happened to Sheeran & Macklemore.

Ed Sheeran knew exactly what he was doing when “Ed Sheeran” contracted Macklemore.

APPLAUD THEM FOR TAKING THE RISK

in this KIRIARCHY both Sheeran & Macklemore are victims of billionaire Robert Kraft. they are showing us how both are labor to Kraft’s capitalist #fascism.

censure Robert Kraft.

BILLIONAIRES ARE THE ENEMY.

We in the US don't believe in worker power. The wealthy scoff, the politicians are distracted, and the workers are cowed. Yet it's another lever to hold AI companies accountable.

"[The workers] can organize, ... and, if necessary, stop doing harmful work, ... Instead of begging others to save the world, they can do it themselves.

"In other words, in America, in Silicon Valley, the literal end of the world is considered more realistic than forming a union."

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unionize-ai

#unions

NYC tourists will face even stiffer hotel rates, skimpier services after ‘shocking’ new labor contract: experts https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/11408/ #Business #hotels #LaborStrikes #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYCHotels #Tourism #Unions #wages

What’s disgusting ?
Union busting !
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/amazon-bc-union-busting-labor

(Also see Benjamin Y. Fong Primer on Distribution Network
https://ontheseams.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-amazons-distribution )

#Capitalism #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

Rebuilding Britain: pointers and pitfalls at TUC 2026

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rebuilding-britain-pointers-and-pitfalls-tuc-2026

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe

#uk #unions #labour #reformuk #burnham

"garment factory owners, including Jewish employers, saw the union become more powerful throughout the 1920s and 30s. They saw Jews espousing socialism, Italians preaching anarchism, and they started to look for workers elsewhere"

super interesting

https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/podcasts/garment-industry-transcript

#Histodons #Unions #ILGWU #NYC #JewishStudies #textiles #fashion #sweatshops #podcast

Riding with Vancouver’s Last Bike Couriers

I meet the bicycle courier outside a trust company in Vancouver’s West End. It’s the last day of…
#Canada #Vancouver #Business #GregoryGan #JeffTeare #MarkHuggan #PhantomCouriers #Stravaapp #Unionization #Unions #Vancouverbikecouriers #WorkBC #WorkerRights
https://www.europesays.com/canada/208426/

My Better Angel Is A Tabby.
Pacey Pratt The Sabo-Cat https://industrialworker.org/cartoon-my-better-angel-is-a-tabby/

(Thanks X423931 )

PDF
https://industrialworker.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-3-IW-Summer-Final.pdf

#Art #cartoons #illustration #iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

My Better Angel Is A Tabby.
Pacey Pratt The Sabo-Cat https://industrialworker.org/cartoon-my-better-angel-is-a-tabby/

(Thanks X423931 )

PDF
https://industrialworker.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-3-IW-Summer-Final.pdf

#Art #cartoons #illustration #iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

My Better Angel Is A Tabby.
Pacey Pratt The Sabo-Cat https://industrialworker.org/cartoon-my-better-angel-is-a-tabby/

(Thanks X423931 )

PDF
https://industrialworker.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-3-IW-Summer-Final.pdf

#Art #cartoons #illustration #iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

My Better Angel Is A Tabby.
Pacey Pratt The Sabo-Cat https://industrialworker.org/cartoon-my-better-angel-is-a-tabby/

(Thanks X423931 )

PDF
https://industrialworker.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-3-IW-Summer-Final.pdf

#Art #cartoons #illustration #iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

My Better Angel Is A Tabby.
Pacey Pratt The Sabo-Cat https://industrialworker.org/cartoon-my-better-angel-is-a-tabby/

(Thanks X423931 )

PDF
https://industrialworker.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-3-IW-Summer-Final.pdf

#Art #cartoons #illustration #iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

... General Strike To Bring In A Workers Government! ... The trade unions must call a general strike NOW to establish the State of Palestine with Jerusalem ...

ON THURSDAY, the Houthi armed forces launched a rapid attack along Yemen’s western coast seizing control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, putting this vital global shipping corridor under their control.#britain #europe #iran #iraq #ireland #localgovernment #unions #usa #yemen
Houthis seize control of Yemen’s Red Sea chokepoint cutting  Saudi oil exports and driving inflation across the world - Workers Revolutionary Party

... General Strike To Bring In A Workers Government! ... The trade unions must call a general strike NOW to establish the State of Palestine with Jerusalem ...

ON THURSDAY, the Houthi armed forces launched a rapid attack along Yemen’s western coast seizing control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, putting this vital global shipping corridor under their control.#britain #europe #iran #iraq #ireland #localgovernment #unions #usa #yemen
Houthis seize control of Yemen’s Red Sea chokepoint cutting  Saudi oil exports and driving inflation across the world - Workers Revolutionary Party

University of Queensland denies student union claims of attacks on independence
By Ned Hammond

The university says it has sought a transition plan over concerns the student union has failed to fulfil its governance requirements.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/university-of-queensland-student-union-ssaf-funding-transition/107051556

#Universities #Unions #NedHammond

Fired Rockstar Games Workers Rally As Employment Tribunal Begins

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/fired-rockstar-games-workers-rally-employment-tribunal/

Direct Action Number 72 September 2026 https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/direct-action-72-newsletter-of-the-iww-ireland-branch

#DirectAction #iww #labourmovement #solidarity #unions

"I'm coming from my background working in this purpose-led sustainable business space, where you see things like worker cooperatives having a really positive impact, both from the workers POV and from the business POV. Because that more collective decision-making, and an interest in the success of the business, delivers better long term outcomes. Both commercially and for individuals."

#QuilaeWong, 2026

https://www.publicinterest.nz/left-wing-or-right-wing-qiulae-wong-on-vested-interests-inequality-and-what-opportunity-really-stands-for/

(1/2)

#Opportunity #cooperatives #SocialEnterprise #unions

@mikegalsworthy You can't re-join THE #Customs #Union without re-joining the #EuropeanUnion per se. You can, however, have A Customs Union between the #UK & the #EU. #Turkey, #Andorra & #Monaco are all #countries that have #customs #unions with the EU. None of them are in the #SingleMarket, the #eurozone, the #SchengenArea or #EFTA. Better, by far, to re-join the EU!

@mikegalsworthy You can't re-join THE #Customs #Union without re-joining the #EuropeanUnion per se. You can, however, have A Customs Union between the #UK & the #EU. #Turkey, #Andorra & #Monaco are all #countries that have #customs #unions with the EU. None of them are in the #SingleMarket, the #eurozone, the #SchengenArea or #EFTA. Better, by far, to re-join the EU!

@mikegalsworthy You can't re-join THE #Customs #Union without re-joining the #EuropeanUnion per se. You can, however, have A Customs Union between the #UK & the #EU. #Turkey, #Andorra & #Monaco are all #countries that have #customs #unions with the EU. None of them are in the #SingleMarket, the #eurozone, the #SchengenArea or #EFTA. Better, by far, to re-join the EU!

@mikegalsworthy You can't re-join THE #Customs #Union without re-joining the #EuropeanUnion per se. You can, however, have A Customs Union between the #UK & the #EU. #Turkey, #Andorra & #Monaco are all #countries that have #customs #unions with the EU. None of them are in the #SingleMarket, the #eurozone, the #SchengenArea or #EFTA. Better, by far, to re-join the EU!

@mikegalsworthy You can't re-join THE #Customs #Union without re-joining the #EuropeanUnion per se. You can, however, have A Customs Union between the #UK & the #EU. #Turkey, #Andorra & #Monaco are all #countries that have #customs #unions with the EU. None of them are in the #SingleMarket, the #eurozone, the #SchengenArea or #EFTA. Better, by far, to re-join the EU!

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

#Capitalism #CocaCola #Crocket #ILWU #labourmovement #solidarity #Sugar #unions

Are there no #Prisons? { #Prisons4PROFIT #ICE.CAMPS }
And the #Workhouses...? { NO #UNIONS for #Workers? }
If they would #ratherDIE, { NO #Medicare4ALL }
then they had #BETTER.DO.IT,
and #DECREASEtheSURPLUSPopulation.
Goodnight
#PLUTOCRACY4America #G.A.G.GLIDEDAgeAGAIN (sic #SICK)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4u3hwe3p7oy3hoy3amlw7rp2/post/3mthb33oask2p

Documents show federal surveillance operation in #Minnesota targeted #progressive groups, #unions

By TIM SULLIVAN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Updated 11:02 PM EDT, August 13, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — "Federal agents launched a sweeping undercover surveillance operation earlier this year targeting progressive organizations, labor unions and other groups protesting the immigration crackdown then raging through Minneapolis, according to court documents filed Thursday.

"The program, dubbed #OperationPuppetMaster, was aimed at what officials called a network of conspirators helping 'violent opportunists and agitators.' The documents were filed in a case involving 15 people charged by federal prosecutors in June with impeding the crackdown, accusing them of conspiring against the federal government through a range of actions, from throwing ice chunks to setting up blockades.

"The government documents were released Thursday in connection with a motion from a defense lawyer in the case, #KevinRiach, who requested that officials disclose more material collected during the investigations.

"The reality, according to government documents revealed in court motions, was Department of Homeland Security officers infiltrating meetings in churches, schools and parks that were often simply discussions of constitutionally protected protests.

"A statement from the department said Homeland Security Investigations doesn’t comment on the existence or status of on-going investigations or investigative methods. The statement referred questions to the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, which didn’t immediately respond to an after-hours email from The Associated Press."

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-progressive-groups-investigated-5e6e554e79980553c3a02ca199593a7d

#Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #UnionBusting #SilencingDissent
#CriminalizingDissent #DefundICE #DefundDHS #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

Instead, it was several #left-leaning #political organizations — #labor #unions, a #ClimateChange group, #socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help & money to what they described as the “violent opportunists & agitators” on the street, acc/to newly released government documents.

#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Workers at Eric Carle Museum petition to form a union. “A union representing workers at museum, universities, publishing houses and nonprofits in New York and New England is petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to allow 36 full- and part-time workers at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art to vote on forming a union. The petition from Local 2110 of the […]

Medieval peasants were far from the non-stop labourers of popular myth. Thanks to the Church, Sundays were strictly rest days, and dozens of mandatory holy days, feast weeks, and seasonal breaks meant they enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to up to half the year off.

#Work #Workers #Unions #MiddleAges #LeisureTime

Blame game rages as hospital emergency department overflows
By Mackenzie Heard

Launceston General Hospital's emergency department was overflowing on Monday night, with the nursing union describing the scenes as "chaotic" and "unsafe" — as Tasmania's health minister blames the federal government for a lack of action.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-07/tas-lgh-emergency-department-overflowing/106887818

#HealthcareFacilities #HealthAdministration #PublicHealth #Unions #HealthPolicy #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #MackenzieHeard

US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/how-much-companies-spend-fight-unions

#HackerNews #US #labor #unions #corporate #spending #unionbusting #workplacejustice #laborrights

To anyone paying attention, workers on Magic the Gathering: Arena moved to unionize, and gathered signatures. Wizards of the Coast are lawyering up to stop them.

Here's the link for petition. Friday is the deadline
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcletter

Give em hell.

All just in time for Mayday

#UniteAndWin #MTG #magicthegathering #mtgarena #union #unions #Mayday

NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

NOW PLAYING == Talk World Radio with David Swanson 4/21/26: Keith Kelleher on Organizing #Workers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7glI0Y_KbH8 #news #peace #geopolitics #uspol #antiwar #nonviolence #DavidSwanson #WorldBeyondWar #NoWar #vsn #radio #peaceeducation #activism #resist #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #unions #labor #seiu

https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116443400183026064

#news #arts #left #commentary #radio

My Whistleblower Story!

A true account of persecution I faced as a whistleblower against the powerful.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/TVQBZBVQK0#g50TCYlBdeeb

Please boost for reach!

#Earth #EqualRights #Justice #Freedom #HumanRights
#SocialJustice #Amnesty
#WorkersRights #HR #Union #Unions #Solidarity
#USA #America #News
#whistleblower #WhistleBlowerStory #Whistleblowing
#MAGA #DNC #RNC
#SpeakTruthToPower
#Police #PoliceBrutality
#Law #Legal #Judiciary
#Court #CourtSystem
#FreeSoftware #Freedom
#Hawaii #California #Bakersfield
#veteran #veterans #VA #USVeterans
#Hacker #HackThePlanet #Activism

AC Transit plans healthcare cost cut — and unions push back

Waves of bus drivers went up to the podium at the AC Transit Board of Directors meeting last…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #ACTransit #afscme #calpers #Health #SalvadorLlamas #transit #unions
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/548439/

AC Transit plans healthcare cost cut — and unions push back

Waves of bus drivers went up to the podium at the AC Transit Board of Directors meeting last…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #ACTransit #afscme #calpers #Health #SalvadorLlamas #transit #unions
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/548439/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/406717/ AC Transit plans healthcare cost cut — and unions push back #ACTransit #AFSCME #CalPERS #Éire #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #IE #Ireland #SalvadorLlamas #transit #unions

... General strike which is going to take place on 28-29 November 2025 under the slogan: “Say NO to the Meloni government's budget law – stand with ...

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Messaggi di solidarietà internazionale ad USB per lo sciopero generale del 28 novembre

... General strike which is going to take place on 28-29 November 2025 under the slogan: “Say NO to the Meloni government's budget law – stand with ...

WFTU Solidarity Statement with the Strike in Italy 25 Nov 2025by central wftu The World Federation of Trade Unions, the militant voice of more that 105 million workers who live, work and struggle in 134 countries of the 5 continents, expresses its u…#wftu #solidarity #statement #strike #italy #nov #central #world #federation #trade #unions #militant #voice #million #workers #live #work #struggle #countries #continents #expresses #undivided #working #class #general #going #take #place #- #november #slogan #say #meloni #government #s #budget #law #stand #palestinian #people #stop #genocide #conscious #dignified #reaction #popular #strata #war #economy #preparations #reduce #resources #health #education #services #increase #precariousness #undermining #interests #pensioners #students #unemployed #international #class-oriented #union #movement #struggles #peace #immediate #end #wars #imperialist #intervention #affiliates #globe #fight #society #wealth #producers #will #allocated #produce #labor #toil #join #worker #just #demands #wage #permanent #stable #living #conditions #--- #dear #comrades #unione #sindacale #base #usb #salute #including #palestine #call #national #also #deeply #appreciate #long-lasting #unwavering #facing #resisting #israel #ongoing #years #settler-colonialism #apartheid #strikes #shed #bright #light #shameful #complicity #italian #corporations #enabling #illegal #occupation #palestinians #shown #power #inspired #many #across #dockworkers #called #september #october #recent #announced #well #disruptive #actions #preventing #stopping #military #cargo #ports #directed #genocidal #can #play #key #role #escalating #peacefully #disrupting #crimes #civil #large #response #meaningful #global #weekend #action #bds #welcomed #news #ceasefire #agreement #reached #however #continues #killing #starving #maiming #albeit #different #form #even #real #important #first #step #livestreamed #illegally #occupied #besieged #gaza #strip #without #massive #pressure #combined #trump-netanyahu #plan #constitutes #continuation #less #visible #us #hope #provoke #regional #outrage #boycotts #sanctions #repercussions #planned #annihilation #denial #refugees #rights #yet #won #needed #ever #begins #ending #serious #accountability #moral #legal #obligations #see #know #tide #turned #must #back #precisely #brought #wave #targeted #spain #t #rkyie #malaysia #colombia #slovenia #antigua #barbuda #governments #globally #isolated #internationally-wanted #prime #minister #recently #admitted #understood #desperate #attempt #relieve #isolation #save #-year-old #regime #settler-colonial #oppression #reasons #professional #urgently #renew #around #escalate #effort #colonial #calls #movements #put #center #adopt #highest #priority #mobilisations #express #liberation #self-determination #return #reparations #uphold #following #icj #rulings #starting #imposing #comprehensive #embargo #halting #sale #purchase #transfer #transit #parts #dual-use #items #ensuring #user #compliance #eni #halt #oil #petrol #launch #broad #intersectional #campaigns #compel #institutions #city #councils #universities #hospitals #etc #ethical #procurement #investment #policies #applicable #exclude #companies #knowingly #persistently #involved #grave #human #violations #particularly #humanity #forces #broader #economic #academic #cultural #sports #mahmoud #nawajaa #coordinator #committee #bnc #tras #el #anuncio #sindicato #syndicale #de #convocatoria #huelga #horas #para #pr #ximo #d #noviembre #frente #sindical #obrero #canarias #saluda #clase #obrera #italiana #sus #organizaciones #y #especialmente #organizaci #n #hermana #camaradas #fieles #nuestros #principios #manifestamos #todo #nuestro #apoyo #lucha #anticapitalista #apoyamos #esta #las #movilizaciones #que #dar #lugar #abrazo #fraternal #los #piquetes #autentica #vanguardia #saludo #asambleas #comit #muy #especial #juventud #trabajadora #convocada #abre #camino #toda #en #contra #presupuestos #guerra #militarizaci #econom #diferentes #pa #ses #sin #reservas #reivindicaci #inmediata #ruptura #concreci #palestina #libre #desde #rio #hasta #mar #les #deseamos #todas #suertes #fuerzas #todos #xitos #alguna #forma #sentimos #tambi #nuestra #viva #secretario #pol #tico #daniel #casal
Messaggi di solidarietà internazionale ad USB per lo sciopero generale del 28 novembre

... General strike which is going to take place on 28-29 November 2025 under the slogan: “Say NO to the Meloni government's budget law – stand with ...

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Messaggi di solidarietà internazionale ad USB per lo sciopero generale del 28 novembre

#Unions, #community groups join forces for #LaborDay #protests against #Trump and #billionaires

Tens of thousands of people expected to hit the streets for a protest over Trump, billionaires

by Sarah D. Wire, September 1, 2025

"Labor unions and community activists are gearing up for mass protests on Labor Day hoping to remind Americans of the power of the #WorkingClass at a time when billionaires are playing an outside role in national politics.

"More than a thousand '#WorkersOverBillionaires' events are planned nationwide in big and small cities on Labor Day and the surrounding days. in an effort to keep the momentum going from other mass demonstrations and keep pressure not only on President #DonaldTrump, but also the billionaires who support or benefit from his administration.

" 'It’s important to show that there is opposition to the Trump-billionaire agenda in every community big and small, it’s not just cities that are united against what’s happening… it’s all towns, it’s small towns that voted overwhelmingly for Trump,' Saqib Bhatti, executive director of Action Center on Race and the Economy, told USA TODAY. 'It’s very important to show the opposition is there in all these places.'

"On Aug. 28 the White House did not respond to a request for comment on the protests. Instead, it provided a quote from Vice President JD Vance about Democrats not voting for the GOP tax and spending bill and a quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's press briefing about Labor Day.

" 'President Trump believes that American workers are the heart and soul of our economy and our national identity, which is why he’s championed an agenda that puts them first always,' she said. [BULLSHIT!]

"The events, which are locally organized and tailored to local concerns, are led by labor organizations, including the #AFLCIO, national #advocacy groups such as #MayDayStrong, #PublicCitizen and #Indivisible and dozens on local advocacy groups. Some began late last week, others will continue throughout the first week of September."

Read more:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/01/trump-billionaires-mass-protests/85886334007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Resist #Resistance #ResistFascism #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #USPol

Industrial disputes & news - 30 July 2025

SA #doctors; QLD #nurses; #Komatsu; #Schindler; QLD #teachers; #BoomLogistics; QLD Dept of Transport & Roads; #GEAerospace; SA #healthcareworkers; #Infrabuild; Townsville City Council; #Glencore & more

(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)

https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-30-july?

#Australia #labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions

https://www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/24/fight-like-hell-author-kim-kelly-shatters-assumptions-about-working-class-people-labor-history/

#journalism #KimKelly
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #strikes #unions #workngclasshistory

#politics #trump #alt #authoritarism #protests #justice #rights #davidheureta #unions #brownshirts #illegal #dentention

Heather Cox Richardson 5/9/2025
Congressmen Denied Access to Detention Centers David Heureta Attack on Community

@Dianora There are a few other economic concepts which are IMO key to developing any remedies and/or alternatives. I'll try to touch on the major ones here.

Wage/Rent pricing, mentioned above, is a key stumbling point. Smith:

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AThe_wealth_of_nations%2C_volume_1.djvu/135

The Law of Rent and Iron Law of Wages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages) dictate that these dynamics are always in conflict and play, and crush the working class, most especially those who live by wage labour (or worse: piecework pay, see Smith's discussion of this for an eye-opener), and rent rather than own their domeciles. Both concepts date to the 18th / early 19th centuries, but are largely ignored in contemporary orthodoxy.

The "obvious" solutions, of, say, providing free/subsidised essentials to the working class or of critical goods and services (food, clothing, housing, education, healthcare) largely further exacerbate the existing perverse market dynamics. I am not saying DON'T help those in dire need. What I am saying is that if this is the sole and widespread remedy, that the underlying problems get worse: wages fall (because "welfare" benefits subsidise its costs rather than employers paying a living wage), education, housing, healthcare and other services get more expensive (because subsidies provide additional revenues).

Winston Churchill (another unlikely champion) noted this in 1906:

Some years ago in London there was a toll bar on a bridge across the Thames, and all the working people who lived on the south side of the river had to pay a daily toll of one penny for going and returning from their work. The spectacle of these poor people thus mulcted of so large a proportion of their earnings offended the public conscience, and agitation was set on foot, municipal authorities were roused, and at the cost of the taxpayers, the bridge was freed and the toll removed. All those people who used the bridge were saved sixpence a week, but within a very short time rents on the south side of the river were found to have risen about sixpence a week, or the amount of the toll which had been remitted!

https://www.landvaluetax.org/history/winston-churchill-said-it-all-better-then-we-can

Instead, a dual strategy of taxing rents (generally: providers of the goods/services above or those acting similarly economically), and providing for increased labour bargaining power though an improved best alternative to negotiated agreement (BATNA) and coordinated negotiation power (a/k/a Labour Unionisation) is necessary. Both of course run into the Wealth is Power and Logic of Collective Action (Mancur Olson, 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action) problems.

Direct subsidies / contributions as emergency measures directed at dire immediate circumstances are ABSOLUTELY of value. **But they should result in direction to directly addressing the rents/wages dichotomy.

A business which cannot pay a living wage and survive economically is a charity conducted to the benefit of its owner at the cost of its workers, or is provisioning public goods which should see a subsidy in their provision through tax revenues and transfer payments. Below-subsistence wages and labour supports only exacerbate the underlying problem.

Private ownership of real estate is a surprisingly recent development, displacing earlier feudal or monarchical rents (often very long-term leases) largely in the late 19th century. Among the few explorations of this history I've found is Simon Winchester's Land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_(book)). And of course there's Henry George's Progress and Poverty (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty_(George,_D._Appleton_%26_Company,_fifth_edition)), championing the Land Value Tax (along with: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Milton Friedman (!!!), to name just a few. Social housing has its failures, but also successes, including the Fuggerei (Augsburg, Germany, created by the Fugger family in 1516 and continuing to serve to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei), Vienna, and Japan (through both market and government actions, in part through some idiosyncratic practices).

Housing cannot be both affordable and an investment asset. And of the two, the first function is primal.

Incidentally, I suspect that a large part of the US growth in homelessness may be directly attributable to going off the gold standard, itself a response to the country's peak-oil moment and reliance on foreign energy imports, driving banks and financial institutions to find an alternate asset class: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304603.

Next are some more obscure economic principles, somewhat addressed in the mainstream, but highly underappreciated ...

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#economics #orthodoxEconomics #critique #wages #rents #LawOfRent #IronLawOfWages #MancurOlson #UBI #unions #LogicOfCollectiveAction #RealEstate #homelessness #OilCrisis #PeakOil #Fuggerei #ProgressAndPoverty #HenryGeorge #DavidRicardo #SimonWinchester #AffordableHousing #AssetHousing #BusinessAsCharity #tootstorm

(Thanks Sarah Missen)

Industrial disputes & news - 16 April 2025
#NSWDoctors ; St Mary’s Community Health Centre; #Cleanaway ; #KeolisDowner ; #FireRescueVictoria; #Qube ; #RamsayHealthCare ; #WorkfortheDole #AUWU ; #CFMEU Manufacturing Deamalgamation & #IWMD

https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-16-april?

#laborMovement #Organize #Solidarity #unions

Abolish Work for the Dole

12pm-1.30pm Monday April 14th

DEWR (Department of Employment and Workplace Relations)
410 LaTrobe Street Melb CBD
Near Flagstaff train station.

Australian Unemployed Worker’s Union
Www.awu.org.au

#AUWU #dole #unemployedworkers #unions

"Militant labor doesn't just protect labor rights – it protects human rights. Remember: MLK, Jr was assassinated while campaigning for union janitors in Memphis. LA teachers ended ICE sweeps at the school gates. Librarian unions are leading the fight against book bans.

The good news is that public opinion has swung wildly in favor of unions over the past decade. More people want to join unions than at any time in generations. More people support unions that at any time in generations.

The bad news is that union leadership fucking suuuuuuuucks. As Hamilton Nolan writes, union bosses are sitting on vast, heretofore unseen warchests of cash, and they just experienced a four-year period of governmental support for unions unheard of since the Carter administration, and they did fuck all with that opportunity:"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/29/which-side-are-you-on-2/#strike-three-yer-out

#USA #Capitalism #LaborLaws #Unions #AntiUnions #WorkerMovement #ClassWarfare

https://defendtheunions.cargo.site/

#AbbotsfordConvent
#QueenVictoriaMarkets
#RoyalBotanicGardens

celebrate the 1970s #GreenBans of #Naarm, aka Melbourne

To raise funds for #DefendtheUnions - Defend the #CFMEU" in the 2024/2025 ongoing struggle against Government administration.

$100 for 11 risograph prints
Limited edition of 100 sets.

#art #illustration #risograph
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions