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  1. Coal workers back strike action at heart of WA's energy grid
    By Neve Brissenden

    Talks between Chinese-owned Premier Coal and workers have fallen through, leaving industrial action on the cards for WA's coal-mining heartland.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/col

    #Coal #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Unions #NeveBrissenden

  2. Opal readers turned off on Sydney Ferries amid industrial action
    By Declan Bowring

    Transport for NSW says the workers cannot turn off the readers under the notified industrial action, despite the maritime union's announcement.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/syd

    #PublicTransport #Unions #IndustrialRelations #MarineTransportIndustry #DeclanBowring

  3. CFMEU 'aware of investigation' as police attend Brisbane HQ

    The construction union says it will "cooperate fully" with an investigation, after police attended its Queensland headquarters.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/qld

    #Police #Unions

  4. Industrial disputes & news - 9 September 2026

    Arts Centre Melbourne; Sydney Ferries; Victorian doctors; RiverCity Ferries; Downer; Scope; Quantem; DOF; Secure Journeys; Melbourne metro councils; Fire Rescue Victoria; Lumus Imaging; NPT
    (Thanks Sarah Missen )

    disputesreport.substack.com/p/?

    #labourmovement #solidarity #strikes #unions

  5. Celebrating and protesting on Labor Day: Among the marchers in the #Boston parade were striking Encore workers
    universalhub.com/2026/celebrat

    Photo by Ron Newman.
    #LaborDay #unions #BackBay #Copley Square

  6. Celebrating and protesting on Labor Day: Among the marchers in the #Boston parade were striking Encore workers
    universalhub.com/2026/celebrat

    Photo by Ron Newman.
    #LaborDay #unions #BackBay #Copley Square

  7. Celebrating and protesting on Labor Day: Among the marchers in the #Boston parade were striking Encore workers
    universalhub.com/2026/celebrat

    Photo by Ron Newman.
    #LaborDay #unions #BackBay #Copley Square

  8. Celebrating and protesting on Labor Day: Among the marchers in the #Boston parade were striking Encore workers
    universalhub.com/2026/celebrat

    Photo by Ron Newman.
    #LaborDay #unions #BackBay #Copley Square

  9. Celebrating and protesting on Labor Day: Among the marchers in the #Boston parade were striking Encore workers
    universalhub.com/2026/celebrat

    Photo by Ron Newman.
    #LaborDay #unions #BackBay #Copley Square

  10. "In my research, I was impressed to see federal commissions convened at the turn of the century to study the impact of new technologies on work and the economy. If only our current government were capable of such sane and sober study and analysis of AI’s entry into the workplace and culture; we need it.

    There seems to be a lesson in the ITU’s actions: Rather than fighting and trying to forestall the inevitable arrival of new technology, it is better to take control of it. That worked well for the ITU for three-quarters of a century as it lobbied successfully for the eight-hour work day and drastically improved the working conditions — and health — of its members. The ITU — and particularly New York’s Big Six — became immensely powerful.

    Until they weren’t. In the 1960s and ’70s, new technologies threatened: punched paper tape that could run a Linotype without an operator, like the robot it appeared to be; cold type (shining light through letters onto photographic paper to set text); computerized hyphenation and justification of text; computers in newsrooms, allowing publishers to “save keystrokes” and eliminate typesetting in composing rooms; and finally PostScript, which turned letters into shapes to be described and displayed by computers and printers.

    This time, the ITU tried fighting the technologies. A series of strikes over these issues killed six of nine New York newspapers — and eventually the union along with them.

    The lessons the ITU and its leadership faced with these new technologies was different from the lessons learned with the Linotype."
    medium.com/whither-news/labor-

    #Publishing #Typesetting #Lynotype #Unions #Automation

  11. "In my research, I was impressed to see federal commissions convened at the turn of the century to study the impact of new technologies on work and the economy. If only our current government were capable of such sane and sober study and analysis of AI’s entry into the workplace and culture; we need it.

    There seems to be a lesson in the ITU’s actions: Rather than fighting and trying to forestall the inevitable arrival of new technology, it is better to take control of it. That worked well for the ITU for three-quarters of a century as it lobbied successfully for the eight-hour work day and drastically improved the working conditions — and health — of its members. The ITU — and particularly New York’s Big Six — became immensely powerful.

    Until they weren’t. In the 1960s and ’70s, new technologies threatened: punched paper tape that could run a Linotype without an operator, like the robot it appeared to be; cold type (shining light through letters onto photographic paper to set text); computerized hyphenation and justification of text; computers in newsrooms, allowing publishers to “save keystrokes” and eliminate typesetting in composing rooms; and finally PostScript, which turned letters into shapes to be described and displayed by computers and printers.

    This time, the ITU tried fighting the technologies. A series of strikes over these issues killed six of nine New York newspapers — and eventually the union along with them.

    The lessons the ITU and its leadership faced with these new technologies was different from the lessons learned with the Linotype."
    medium.com/whither-news/labor-

    #Publishing #Typesetting #Lynotype #Unions #Automation

  12. "In my research, I was impressed to see federal commissions convened at the turn of the century to study the impact of new technologies on work and the economy. If only our current government were capable of such sane and sober study and analysis of AI’s entry into the workplace and culture; we need it.

    There seems to be a lesson in the ITU’s actions: Rather than fighting and trying to forestall the inevitable arrival of new technology, it is better to take control of it. That worked well for the ITU for three-quarters of a century as it lobbied successfully for the eight-hour work day and drastically improved the working conditions — and health — of its members. The ITU — and particularly New York’s Big Six — became immensely powerful.

    Until they weren’t. In the 1960s and ’70s, new technologies threatened: punched paper tape that could run a Linotype without an operator, like the robot it appeared to be; cold type (shining light through letters onto photographic paper to set text); computerized hyphenation and justification of text; computers in newsrooms, allowing publishers to “save keystrokes” and eliminate typesetting in composing rooms; and finally PostScript, which turned letters into shapes to be described and displayed by computers and printers.

    This time, the ITU tried fighting the technologies. A series of strikes over these issues killed six of nine New York newspapers — and eventually the union along with them.

    The lessons the ITU and its leadership faced with these new technologies was different from the lessons learned with the Linotype."
    medium.com/whither-news/labor-

    #Publishing #Typesetting #Lynotype #Unions #Automation

  13. "In my research, I was impressed to see federal commissions convened at the turn of the century to study the impact of new technologies on work and the economy. If only our current government were capable of such sane and sober study and analysis of AI’s entry into the workplace and culture; we need it.

    There seems to be a lesson in the ITU’s actions: Rather than fighting and trying to forestall the inevitable arrival of new technology, it is better to take control of it. That worked well for the ITU for three-quarters of a century as it lobbied successfully for the eight-hour work day and drastically improved the working conditions — and health — of its members. The ITU — and particularly New York’s Big Six — became immensely powerful.

    Until they weren’t. In the 1960s and ’70s, new technologies threatened: punched paper tape that could run a Linotype without an operator, like the robot it appeared to be; cold type (shining light through letters onto photographic paper to set text); computerized hyphenation and justification of text; computers in newsrooms, allowing publishers to “save keystrokes” and eliminate typesetting in composing rooms; and finally PostScript, which turned letters into shapes to be described and displayed by computers and printers.

    This time, the ITU tried fighting the technologies. A series of strikes over these issues killed six of nine New York newspapers — and eventually the union along with them.

    The lessons the ITU and its leadership faced with these new technologies was different from the lessons learned with the Linotype."
    medium.com/whither-news/labor-

    #Publishing #Typesetting #Lynotype #Unions #Automation

  14. "In my research, I was impressed to see federal commissions convened at the turn of the century to study the impact of new technologies on work and the economy. If only our current government were capable of such sane and sober study and analysis of AI’s entry into the workplace and culture; we need it.

    There seems to be a lesson in the ITU’s actions: Rather than fighting and trying to forestall the inevitable arrival of new technology, it is better to take control of it. That worked well for the ITU for three-quarters of a century as it lobbied successfully for the eight-hour work day and drastically improved the working conditions — and health — of its members. The ITU — and particularly New York’s Big Six — became immensely powerful.

    Until they weren’t. In the 1960s and ’70s, new technologies threatened: punched paper tape that could run a Linotype without an operator, like the robot it appeared to be; cold type (shining light through letters onto photographic paper to set text); computerized hyphenation and justification of text; computers in newsrooms, allowing publishers to “save keystrokes” and eliminate typesetting in composing rooms; and finally PostScript, which turned letters into shapes to be described and displayed by computers and printers.

    This time, the ITU tried fighting the technologies. A series of strikes over these issues killed six of nine New York newspapers — and eventually the union along with them.

    The lessons the ITU and its leadership faced with these new technologies was different from the lessons learned with the Linotype."
    medium.com/whither-news/labor-

    #Publishing #Typesetting #Lynotype #Unions #Automation