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#MayDay before it was hijacked and given a political colour by leftists was a pagan festival which signified the arrival of Spring
Today celebrated as #InternationalWorkersDay or #LabourDay it has deep religious and historical roots : (1/5)
#LabourDay2023
#LaborDay
#MayDay2023
Today celebrated as #InternationalWorkersDay or #LabourDay it has deep religious and historical roots : (1/5)
#LabourDay2023
#LaborDay
#MayDay2023
The origins of #MayDay feativals come from the Roman festival of Floralia where Flora the goddess of flowers and spring is worshipped
6 days long games with theatres, sports were held in her honour.
The celebrations have a history of more than 2000 years throughout Europe. (2/5)
6 days long games with theatres, sports were held in her honour.
The celebrations have a history of more than 2000 years throughout Europe. (2/5)
#MayDay is also celebrated regionally as Beltaine, Calan Mai and Walpurgis nights even today
Beltaine and Calan Mai signifies the arrival of summer with bonfires, feasting decorating homes with flowers
Walpurgis night is held in honour of St. Walpurga and her cannonisation. (3/5)
Beltaine and Calan Mai signifies the arrival of summer with bonfires, feasting decorating homes with flowers
Walpurgis night is held in honour of St. Walpurga and her cannonisation. (3/5)
1/ As we celebrate #LaborDay an often overlooked facet is the history of the Labor movement and how workers seeking better pay and conditions often were met with fatal force, extradition or arrest.
2/ This includes the #GreatRailroadStrike of 1877 in which the National Guard and federal troops were used to suppress the strike and fired into crowds with an estimated 100 deaths nationwide. #LaborDay
3/ The 1886 #BayViewMassacre in Milwaukee in which the state militia opened fire against peaceful demonstrators calling for an 8-hr workday killing 15. #LaborDay
On this Labor Day, be reminded that we have the 8 hr work day, 40 hr work week, & child labor laws because of the labor movement. #LaborDay
If you're enjoying your long weekend, remember that you have a weekend break from work because of the labor movement. #LaborDay
Workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, pensions, and Social Security? They exist largely due to the labor movement. #LaborDay
1) A #Laborday list of books that recognize the immense labour that makes communications, digital technologies, and media- culture (and with gratitude to labour of all the social science and humanities researchers who have long been at the forefront of producing this knowledge).
3) Not doing the "Florida thing" with the cultural and creative industries Andrew Ross @ProfKateOakley @oconnorjustin13 @angelamcrobbie @rmax @markbank @nicole_s_cohen @enda_b
"#LongCovid is a $3.5 trillion problem," said David Cutler, a professor of economics at Harvard University, "And there are very few 3.5 trillion problems that we know as little as we know about thisโ
Happy #LaborDay ๐ abcnews.go.com/Health/mans-laโฆ
Happy #LaborDay ๐ abcnews.go.com/Health/mans-laโฆ
โThe newly engaged 26-year-old, who worked long days in finance at a start-up and taught skiing on the weekends, would spend the next several months in a haze on her couch in her Washington, D.C., apartment. Unable to focus, she lost her job.โ #LongCovid
โA Census Bureau survey suggests that among people who have been infected, one in five still experience lingering symptoms.โ #LongCovid
#LaborDay
Today is about celebrating our wins as #Americaโs #Workers. Thanks to the diligence of #LaborUnions we have #RightsForWorkers Thank You @UAW @NEAToday @AFLCIO @steelworkers @IBEW @UFWupdates @UAPipeTrades @IUBAC @UMAW_ @AlliedPilots @NUHW and more for your fight for us
Today is about celebrating our wins as #Americaโs #Workers. Thanks to the diligence of #LaborUnions we have #RightsForWorkers Thank You @UAW @NEAToday @AFLCIO @steelworkers @IBEW @UFWupdates @UAPipeTrades @IUBAC @UMAW_ @AlliedPilots @NUHW and more for your fight for us
As you enjoy this #LaborDay2022 know that the #TNGOP is actively trying to dismantle your rights to good paying jobs, paid vacation, holidays, benefits, safe work environments with their push for #Amendment1 they call it #RightToWork, but is actually #CorporateRight to bully
The supporters of this garbage like my opponent Scott Cepicky and our governor Bill Lee are open in their disdain for the workers of Tennessee, they know we lead the nation in low paying wages & that states that embrace the ability for Labor Unions to negotiate have better wages
This #LaborDay weโre highlighting some lessons in solidarity from Japanese and Mexican Americansโ 100+ years of shared farm labor history. ๐งต densho.org/catalyst/japanโฆ
While the two groups were on opposing sides in many of these encounters, there were also remarkable instances of unityโlike the multiracial union organizing that formed the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association in turn-of-the-century Oxnard, California.
In 1897, East Coast sugar magnates Henry, James, Benjamin, and Robert Oxnard had founded the American Beet Sugar Company and developed acres of fields on land that had, within recent living memory, belonged to Mexico and Chumash Indians.
Today on #LaborDay I want to talk to you about supporting strikes and unions.
People get very personally a fronted when people like therapists, nurses, doctors, and teachers strike. They also get upset and blame these same people when they can't get help.
So the Kaiser Strike
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People get very personally a fronted when people like therapists, nurses, doctors, and teachers strike. They also get upset and blame these same people when they can't get help.
So the Kaiser Strike
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Kaiser mental health workers in California and Hawai'i are on strike because Kaiser has refused to fully staff its clinics forcing clients to wait for care. Kaiser is breaking the law and clinical standards.
Yet people are upset with the workers.
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Kaiser mental health workers in California and Hawai'i are on strike because Kaiser has refused to fully staff its clinics forcing clients to wait for care. Kaiser is breaking the law and clinical standards.
Yet people are upset with the workers.
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I have seen people complaining about workers "abandoning" their patients.
This is horrible short sided crab in barrel behavior. It is Kaiser who is denying care. Kaiser not properly staffing and crating dangerous environments for workers and clients alike.
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This is horrible short sided crab in barrel behavior. It is Kaiser who is denying care. Kaiser not properly staffing and crating dangerous environments for workers and clients alike.
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#LaborDay thread on #academic labor.
Renewed @AAUP chapter at #Wesleyan @WesleyanAAUP has compelling hist of fac/admin relations & negotiations ca 1916-2000
TL;DR
--AAUP key but not strongest tool for labor
--instead Junior fac self-org & info sharing
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Renewed @AAUP chapter at #Wesleyan @WesleyanAAUP has compelling hist of fac/admin relations & negotiations ca 1916-2000
TL;DR
--AAUP key but not strongest tool for labor
--instead Junior fac self-org & info sharing
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Acc. to this hist, key contexts for #Wesleyanโs AAUP:
-- a rich lib arts college into #highered โexperimentationโ
-- a โLittle Uniโ w/ PhD progs in sciences
-- square circle: low tenure density & high contingency
-- longstanding Junior Faculty Org (JFO) addressed contradiction
Acc. to this hist, key contexts for #Wesleyanโs AAUP:
-- a rich lib arts college into #highered โexperimentationโ
-- a โLittle Uniโ w/ PhD progs in sciences
-- square circle: low tenure density & high contingency
-- longstanding Junior Faculty Org (JFO) addressed contradiction
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@WesleyanAAUP hist notes contradictions in 1915-17 statements of @AAUP prez John #Dewey & co-found Arthur Lovejoy:
profs + trusteees collab on everything to do w/ education (curriculum to budget to donations);
admin there to "implement".
Nonetheless: profs salaried employees.
@WesleyanAAUP hist notes contradictions in 1915-17 statements of @AAUP prez John #Dewey & co-found Arthur Lovejoy:
profs + trusteees collab on everything to do w/ education (curriculum to budget to donations);
admin there to "implement".
Nonetheless: profs salaried employees.
On #LaborDay, our nation honors the skill, devotion and solidarity of the hard-working Americans who make up the heart of our economy and the foundation of our countryโs strength.
This year, while marking the transformative achievements of Americaโs labor movement throughout our history, we celebrate an organizing wave that is reaching workplaces across the nation โ from coffee shops and warehouses to newsrooms and ballparks.
.@POTUS and Congressional Democrats are proud to fight alongside a burgeoning labor movement as we put #PeopleOverPolitics.
Because we know that the middle class is the backbone of our Democracy โ and the middle class has a union label on it.
Because we know that the middle class is the backbone of our Democracy โ and the middle class has a union label on it.
So, you are following the #TrumpRally tweets. Hi. I live here. I work here. I love here in Rural and North East #Pennsylvania. We've knocked on 45k doors since March as @acttogethernepa.
The NY Times just said we are the center of political universe.
We know what do.
The NY Times just said we are the center of political universe.
We know what do.
We build people power to use people power by endorsing candidates like these leaders who will work so that all Americans have the tools and opportunities to realize their dreams.
actiontogethernepa.org
actiontogethernepa.org
Winning #elections is part of the long arc of work we are doing so that we have an #economy that works for all, communities that welcome any and a green Earth for everyone. We also have to rebuild a politics of people, of durable engagement, of forging resilient trust networks.
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Bruce told me he takes the 22 bus daily (1/4)#SanFrancisco
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Bruce told me he takes the 22 bus daily (1/4)#SanFrancisco
Bruce said a group of young ppl threw things at his head on the bus around Chestnut & Fillmore
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Bruce asked the driver to call PD he says he was sucker punched, glasses flew off & he fell to his knees.
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โOne more shot & I would have been brain injuredโ (2/4) #SanFrancisco
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Bruce asked the driver to call PD he says he was sucker punched, glasses flew off & he fell to his knees.
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โOne more shot & I would have been brain injuredโ (2/4) #SanFrancisco
He was let off & crawled/ran to a nearby restaurant which was packed w/customers
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โEveryoneโs got their Labradoodle & Patagonia. Iโm trying to save my butt.โ
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(Bruce is v. funny & credits meditation.)
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He says the suspects followed & swung at him at the restaurant (3/4)
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โEveryoneโs got their Labradoodle & Patagonia. Iโm trying to save my butt.โ
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(Bruce is v. funny & credits meditation.)
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He says the suspects followed & swung at him at the restaurant (3/4)
It's #LaborDay weekend, and a botnet with stolen profile pics is retweeting various giveaway tweets and pretending to be from Michigan.
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
This botnet consists of 11 accounts created in early 2021. All follow far more accounts than they are followed by, and ll but one have their profile location set to somewhere in Michigan (@JacobMassengil's location is simply "USA").
Each account in this botnet tweets via its own custom app with a name consisting of 30 random letters and digits (e.g., @CarlaFreemly tweets via "LcOkMRRPjRblxHlQPo8OnwltoYXFWg"). Most also have older tweets sent via apps that were subsequently removed (the erased******* apps).
1 - Welcome to #ThreadTalk, #LaborDay edition. Our topic? Mills, Strikes & Textile Labor.
Buckle up, though. There is a distinct lack of dazzle today.
We're meeting the makers & laborers of apparel history--& how they lived & died for their craft.
Buckle up, though. There is a distinct lack of dazzle today.
We're meeting the makers & laborers of apparel history--& how they lived & died for their craft.
2 - In Asia, & China specifically, silk became one of the first real fabric blockbusters for trade during the Han Dynasty, beginning the Silk Road.
Traditionally, weaving was left to women while men farmed & sold, and this continued as trade grew.
Traditionally, weaving was left to women while men farmed & sold, and this continued as trade grew.
3 - Francesca Bray puts it simply in "Textile Production & Gender Roles":โThe growth of the textile industry involved new forms of organization of production that made men the skilled workers and marginalized women.โ
This is by no means unique to China. It's the story of fabric.
This is by no means unique to China. It's the story of fabric.
Today we remember the original Rednecks: 10,000 coal miners who fought a literal army in order to earn better working conditions during the Battle of Blair Mountain 100 years ago.
Here's a little bit of info about the largest armed labor uprising in U.S. history:
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#LaborDay
Here's a little bit of info about the largest armed labor uprising in U.S. history:
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#LaborDay
These West Virginian miners were diverse members of the working class: white and Black, immigrants and deep-rooted locals. They lived in an oppressive company town where the mining company controlled every aspect of their life, even charging them for their own work tools.
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When United Mine Workers began organizing in the area, companies hired private detectives to spread propaganda and intimidate union sympathizers.
Things came to a head when the local sheriff, a supporter of the union miners, was murdered by these agents in broad daylight.
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Things came to a head when the local sheriff, a supporter of the union miners, was murdered by these agents in broad daylight.
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Today we celebrate the American workerโthe entrepreneurs w/ their dreams & the workers w/their skills who built this nation. But itโs troubling to see the disregard we now see for hard work. Almost every business is trying to hire people, but so many donโt want to work. #LaborDay
With @POTUS45 Trump, the US had the strongest economy, some say since Eisenhower, & we had more people working than at any time in our historyโbut itโs evaporating. COVID had an impact, but political mismanagement has dealt a debilitating blow.
Repeated stimulus payments & giveaway packages have encouraged people not to go to work. The Republicans seem to know how to get people to work and the Democrats seem to know how to tax your money and give it to people as an incentive not to work.
We have a nostalgia for factory jobs with good pay, benefits, time-off, safety, but for most of history factory jobs sucked: low pay, no benefits, brutal schedule, dangerous. It is collective bargaining of unions that made these jobs great, not the work itself โฆ
Now that the work has moved to service sector, healthcare, etc we need to bring the fight to these sectors, make the type of jobs that exist, with high demand for workers, great: good pay, benefits, time-off, safe โฆ
Owners of capital have massive bargaining power over workers, they have a lot more information than the workers about the work & more flexibility about who works when, only when workers unite, to bargain collectively can they get their fair shake from the owners โฆ
"My Socialism: Labor Day Notes on Jodo Shinshu Martyr Takagi Kenmyo"
Takagi Kenmyo's Pure Land conscience was activated when he became Josenji's head monk in 1899, coming into contact with the social and economic suffering of the many burakumin (outcastes) in his congregation.
Takagi Kenmyo's Pure Land conscience was activated when he became Josenji's head monk in 1899, coming into contact with the social and economic suffering of the many burakumin (outcastes) in his congregation.
He campaigned against the oppression of burakumin, women, and the poor, and advocated pacifism rather than the rising imperialist militarism of Japan. In 1910 he was jailed on trumped-up charges and sentenced to death (commuted to life imprisonment). He died in jail in 1914.
The Higashi Otanji branch of Jodo Shinshu, which had experienced over four decades of intense government pressure, abandoned him, but some of his work was preserved and in the post-war period he became an important figure. The denomination restored his status in 1996.
On this Labor Day, be reminded that we have the 8 hr work day, 40 hr work week, & child labor laws because of the labor movement. #LaborDay
If you're enjoying your long weekend, remember that you have a weekend break from work because of the labor movement. #LaborDay
Workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, pensions, and Social Security? They exist largely due to the labor movement. #LaborDay
It is #LaborDay in US & Canada.
Recognize the workers who have kept countries open at great risk to themselves - grocery stores , hospitals, sanitation, transportation, delivery, many others. What does the economy do for them?
๐ฅ @rerutled Match 2020
Recognize the workers who have kept countries open at great risk to themselves - grocery stores , hospitals, sanitation, transportation, delivery, many others. What does the economy do for them?
๐ฅ @rerutled Match 2020
When regimes & billionaires say โReopen Americaโ โReopen xxโ etc, always ask:
- whose labour is ignored?
- whose work is appreciated?
- why โessentialโ workers are so un/der/valued?
Always say fuck the capitalist patriarchy
๐ฅ @rerutled #LaborDay
- whose labour is ignored?
- whose work is appreciated?
- why โessentialโ workers are so un/der/valued?
Always say fuck the capitalist patriarchy
๐ฅ @rerutled #LaborDay
To those who are clamouring to โgo back to normalโ and to โreopenโ for the sake of an economy that harms those who are most un/der/valued, I say:
Fuck normal.
(Made in May 2020)
๐ฅ @rerutled #LaborDay #HonorEssentialWorkers
Fuck normal.
(Made in May 2020)
๐ฅ @rerutled #LaborDay #HonorEssentialWorkers
Labor Notes has compiled 24 #LaborDay songs. Some of the selections are classics; others may surprise you. ๐งต
May Day, International Workersโ Day, is the original day of celebration of working-class solidarity marked by rallies, fiery speeches, and demonstrations. #Solidarity
May Day, International Workersโ Day, is the original day of celebration of working-class solidarity marked by rallies, fiery speeches, and demonstrations. #Solidarity
BREAKING: Starting Labor Day we will #OccupyCongress till we get housing and good paying jobs for ALL!
Joining the action Monday
๐ช @anyaparampil
๐ช @LeeCamp
๐ช @MaxBlumenthal
๐ช @medeabenjamin
๐ช @nick_brana
๐ช @paulajean2020
๐ช @ZeynabDay
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Joining the action Monday
๐ช @anyaparampil
๐ช @LeeCamp
๐ช @MaxBlumenthal
๐ช @medeabenjamin
๐ช @nick_brana
๐ช @paulajean2020
๐ช @ZeynabDay
actionnetwork.org/events/join-thโฆ
SCOTUS struck down the eviction moratorium.
Millions are facing eviction again & millions more are losing their unemployment lifeline on #LaborDay. Yet the Dems are on vacation & the steps of Congress are empty.
Now the people are going to finish what the politicians could not.
Millions are facing eviction again & millions more are losing their unemployment lifeline on #LaborDay. Yet the Dems are on vacation & the steps of Congress are empty.
Now the people are going to finish what the politicians could not.
Weโre taking action on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain, one of the greatest labor uprisings in American history, and the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
59.01/ Week fifty-nine, Aug. 28-Sept. 3, 2021, thread begins here.
Week 58 thread below.
Week 58 thread below.
59.02/ Scoring a run on a balk is such sweet victorious humiliation. Like in NFL when a QB gives up a safety by running out the back of the endzone. Thanks Nationals. #LGM
59.03a/ One year without fans in the stands and they forgot how to act right.
The fans can't be abusive, throw objects, hurl slurs. This we know. But we cheer and boo. That's our job. And if players enjoy the cheering they need to fear the booing as well.
The fans can't be abusive, throw objects, hurl slurs. This we know. But we cheer and boo. That's our job. And if players enjoy the cheering they need to fear the booing as well.
