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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.

The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #breadandroses #policebrutality #union #elizabethgurleyflynn #bigbillhaywood #strike #picket #immigrants #poetry #novel #books #fiction #writer #author #uptonsinclair @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History February 19, 1990: After a 10-month strike, rank-and-file miners at the Pittston Coal Co. ratified a new contract. Ninety-eight miners and a minister occupied a Pittston Coal plant in Carbo, Virginia, inaugurating the year-long strike. While a one-month Soviet coal strike dominated the U.S. media, the year-long Pittston strike received almost no media coverage in the U.S. The wildcat walkouts involved 40,000 miners in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. Over 2,000 people occupied Camp Solidarity. Miners and their families engaged in Civil Disobedience, pickets, work stoppages and sometimes sabotage, vandalism and violence. Over 4,000 were arrested.

#workingclass#LaborHistory#pittston
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Daniel Dvorkin

cbsnews.com/colorado/news/unio

Friends in the #Denver metro area, and along the Front Range from #Cheyenne to #Pueblo, take note. Please don't cross the #picket line.

Many of my friends have worked at #KingSoopers over the decades. It used to be completely unionized, and a good place to work. #Kroger bought it out in the 1980s, and has steadily ground down the #unions ever since. I honestly don't know how much of a difference this #strike will make.

I do know the battle is worth fighting, and those who fight it are worth supporting. As convenient as King Soopers is around here, there are other places to shop. Do what you can, when you can, and maybe things will get better someday.

CBS Colorado · Unionized Colorado grocery store workers to begin two-week strike on ThursdayBy Jennifer McRae
Ned Donovan

Standing with my fellow arts workers at the Atlantic Theater Company who are striking for a fair contract. Crew members are vital to theater, and as a newly organized workforce under #IATSE it should not have had to come to this.

Proudly marching on 16th st as a member of #actorsequity and #sagaftra.

Muliple members of non arts unions have joined the march. Solidarity matters.

#Theatre#theater#offbroadway
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Peter Riley

@tim

Stop #strikebreaking #scab labour

#Woolworths Melbourne South Regional Distribution Centre

2 Portlink Drive in #Dandenong South

#Picket line 4.30am 2nd of December 2024

access Portlink drive via the Western Port Highway (there's no access via Taylor's Road)

One day longer, one day stronger.
The workers' united, will never be defeated.

Media
abc.net.au/news/2024-12-02/woo

#Dandenong #woolworths #labormovementn#warehouseworkers #organize #picketline #Strike #UWU

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Austin Huang ❤️

#Students are also hurting: undergraduates lose support for succeeding in courses and become increasingly frustrated with grades, while graduates lose their income, especially since the #university has also suspended every striking TA from their concurrent positions. We are also in the dark, as the administration never communicates to us about the progress of the negotiation, other than to demand #picket lines to cease. I am hearing more and more expletives on the picket line now. 4/

Peter Riley

As human beings in #Palestine are slaughtered, #unions appealed to workers internationally to stop the supply of arms to Israel's #hightech #warmachine. In response, workers in Belgium, India & Spain have refused to handle weapons shipments, while in Canada workers in a number of cities have set up flying #picket lines to disrupt business as usual at #armscorporations.

mediacoop.ca/node/119209

#RankandFile #solidarity
#antimilitarism #militaryindustrialcomplex

Mural: #Jenin Refugee Camp

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.

The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #BreadAndRoses #policebrutality #union #police #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #BigBillHaywood #strike #picket #immigrants #poetry #novel #books #author #writer #uptonsinclair @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History February 19, 1990: After a 10-month strike, rank-and-file miners at the Pittston Coal Co. ratified a new contract. Ninety-eight miners and a minister occupied a Pittston Coal plant in Carbo, Virginia, inaugurating the year-long strike. While a one-month Soviet coal strike dominated the U.S. media, the year-long Pittston strike received almost no media coverage. The wildcat walkouts involved 40,000 miners in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. Over 2,000 people occupied Camp Solidarity. Miners and their families engaged in Civil Disobedience, pickets, work stoppages and sometimes sabotage, vandalism and violence. Over 4,000 were arrested.

#WorkingClass#LaborHistory#pittston
John

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/n

#Amazon: “I have three kids of my own and I struggle to make a paycheck, but they don’t care. They put so much fear in #employees. I had major surgery and only took two days off from #work because I was afraid they were going to fire me. It shouldn’t be that way.”

The Guardian · Amazon’s first delivery workers to unionize were later fired – now they’re striking at warehousesBy Michael Sainato
#union#unions#contracting
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