https://www.siptu.ie/siptu-has-commended-local-authority-workers-for-their-work-during-storm-eowyn/

https://www.siptu.ie/unions-are-a-moral-voice-in-society-says-president-higgins/

@strght
It's just another sign of his poor knowledge of politics. In former German Democratic Republic it was known as 'Sozialistischer Gruß'. That's why Honecker did it.
'The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of solidarity, especially with a political movement. It is a common symbol representing a wide range of political ideologies, most notably #socialism, #communism, #anarchism, and #tradeUnionism'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
@aureliano

https://www.siptu.ie/competing-for-the-social-good/

Council of Trade Union Leaders: Ukraine accused of interfering in union affairs through new group | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-council-of-trade-union-leaders-interference/ #Ukraine #TradeUnionism #union

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-09-05/degrowth-the-awakening-of-consciousness-before-an-alternative/

#Resilience: Carlos Taibo, an #economist from Madrid, who defines the demands for #degrowth as “endless precise fields such as #health and %education, the rural world and #tradeunionism, #cities and #migrations.”
#sufficiency #sharing #subsidiarity

Oh look! It’s a single graph that shows why sector-wide bargaining is crucial!

While there are a couple of stand-out employers -- whether from actual paid sick leave policies or unionization efforts to fight for said policies -- in the food service sector:

(1) Jack in the Box,
(2) Starbucks (in the midst of a strong union drive),
(3) Chipotle (at least one store closed due to unionization efforts),
(4) In-N-Out Burger

The overall trend is that 78% or so of all food service workers believe (accurately) that they do not have paid sick leave.

My conclusion? Trying to build up individual bargaining units at individual employers is an uphill, losing battle. Organization in food service needs to always have its eye on sector-wide bargaining.

I originally saw this graph from a post on Tumblr, which had a screenshot of a Tweet from More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) talking about a CDC study that found sick workers were tied to 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks. Unionization protects everyone, not just the members.

#OnThisDay 28th May 1912, the Irish Labour Party was founded by James Connolly, James Larkin and William O'Brien as the political arm of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/210/

@Catsandcatsandcats it's frustrating that we keep forgetting lessons learned centuries ago:

"Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of capital. They fail partially from an injudicious use of their power. They fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of simultaneously trying to change it, instead of using their organized forces as a lever for the final emancipation of the working class that is to say the ultimate abolition of the wages system."

--Karl Marx, "Wage Labour and Capital, Chapter 14, The Struggle Between Capital and Labour and its Results"

Oh look. It's "socialist" Biden begging Congress to bust up a union strike. What a friend of labour! (don't laugh!)

Notice how it's not described as a "class struggle," or as a "dispute between business and labor," but as a "labor dispute," as if the workers were the ones causing the problem. Also notice how nothing substantive about the dispute has made it into this "summary" of otherwise "breaking news." The reader is left to wonder just why those dastardly union workers want to cosplay as The Grinch and steal Christmas.

Parenti documented, decades ago, how the mass media covered union activity, in his book Inventing Reality, even pulling timely examples from this very institution (The New York Times) IIRC. The playbook hasn't changed.