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#birmingham #bin #strike #union #UnionStrong #1u #uk #UkPol

Sign the petition to support bin workers here: t.co/fbEpLbVvRu

Donate to the strike fund – Unite WM/7186 Branch, account: 20308397, sort code: 608301. Title donation: BCC Strike Donation

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t.coPlease help striking Birmingham bin workers fight against attacks on their pay! More than 350 Birmingham bin workers are on strike, due to the council’s decision to abolish the safety critical Waste Recycling and Collection Officer (WRCO) role. This means pay cuts of up £8,000 for 150 workers. Birmingham’s refuse staff believe the scrapping of the WRCO role is the first step in a broader campaign of cuts across a service that is already on its knees. Please sign our petition to support these workers and force the Council leader and Head Commissioner to listen to its workers and resolve this dispute!
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 14, 1917: IWW sailors went on strike in Philadelphia and won a ten dollar per month raise. Ben Fletcher, an African-American IWW organizer, was instrumental in organizing the Philadelphia waterfront. Fletcher was born in Philly in 1890. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913.

In 1913, Fletcher led 10,000 IWW Philly dockworkers on a strike. Within two weeks, they won a 10-hr day, overtime pay, & created one of the most successful antiracist, anticapitalist union locals in the U.S. At the time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.

By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color.

Fletcher also traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. And in 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.

You can read my full biography of Ben Fletcher here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/

Photograph of Ben Fletcher, 1918. Ben Fletcher, a union organizer for Industrial Workers of the World, was photographed when he arrival at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, September 1918. He was found guilty of "espionage and sedition" and sentenced to ten years in federal prison and fined $30,000. By U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128257560
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dallo

> When radical things happen, only fools do not become more radical. History can explain the present, but getting locked into a dynamic that no longer works is how things go extinct. The strike is our power. Get ready, willing, and able to use that power. The greatest tragedy would be seeing unions shrivel up and wither away without a fight.

Not Just Unions; Strike-Ready Unions.
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How Things Work · Not Just Unions; Strike-Ready Unions.By Hamilton Nolan
#union#strike#unionize
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 13, 1894: The Great Northern rail strike began in Helena, Montana. It quickly spread to St. Paul. The strike was led Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway Union. Workers succeeded in shutting down most of the critical rail links. Consequently, the owners gave in to nearly all of the union’s demands. The successful strike led to thousands of rail workers joining the new union. Debs would go on to lead numerous other strikes, run for president of the U.S. several times, including from his prison cell, and to cofound the revolutionary union IWW, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Lucy Parsons, and others.

Campaign poster from his 1912 presidential campaign featuring Debs and vice presidential candidate Emil Seidel. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4104355
#workingclass#LaborHistory#union
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 12, 1935: 150,000 college students protested across the U.S. in the first nationwide student strike against war. Between 1936 and 1939, the movement mobilized at least 500,000 college students (almost 50% of all American college students at the time) in annual one-hour strikes against war.

Grainy black and white photo of students marching for peace, 1935. Some of the signs read: "Schools, Not Battleships!" and "Strike Against Imperialism."
#antiwar#ww2#students
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 12, 1900: Florence Reece was born. Reece was an activist in the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal strikes, and author of the song, “Which Side Are You On?” She originally wrote the song when she was twelve, when her father was on strike. She updated it to its current form in 1931, during a UMW strike, in response to Sheriff Blair’s thugs, who beat & murdered union leaders. Florence wrote the revised lyrics on an old wall calendar while her home was being ransacked by Blair’s goons, who were looking for her husband, Sam Reece, an organizer with the miners’ union. Many artists covered “Which Side Are You On,” including Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Dropkick Murphys, Natalie Merchant, Ani DiFranco, and Tom Morello.

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YouTubeFlorence Reece segment from Harlan County, USABy Oakland Public Education
#workingclass#LaborHistory#FlorenceReece
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Calico Jesse

“Back in the war days, when the I.W.W. was blooming, they had lined up a lot of the Personville Mining Corporation's help. The help hadn't been pampered, and they used their new strength to demand the things they wanted. Old Elihu gave in to them and bided his time. In 1919 it came. Business was slack. He didn't care whether he had to shut down for a while or not. He cut wages, lengthened hours, generally kicked the help back into their old place.”

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#Hamett#Unions#Labor
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Dr. Anna Latour

Solidarity with my colleagues from Tilburg University, who are on strike today.

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Two days ago, our Senate voted to accept the new Education budget, which includes a 1.2 billion budget cut on higher education. In addition to striking today, Tilburg University is fighting their budget cuts in court, arguing that these budget cuts go against an agreement from 2022 about funding of higher education for the next decade.

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Estafettestaking Leiden 10 maart 2025 Beeld Roland Pupupin
universonline.nlGrab your banner! This is the program for April 10The program of the relay strike in Tilburg on April 10 has been announced. Throughout the day there are activities in the city center and on campus. A protest m
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