Thrashed by economic crises, my generation of trade unionists never wondered what to change or why. We wondered how. Jane McAlevey provided an answer, reviving strategic organising, giving it new life and language that endures. Love and solidarity to a giant! www.newyorker.com/news/persons...
The renowned organizer and theorist has a terminal-cancer diagnosis. But she has long been fighting the clock.
Belgium is on strike today 💪 Transports en commun perturbés ce jeudi 5 octobre en raison d’une manifestation nationale, la moitié des bus et trams de De Lijn ne rouleront pas www.rtbf.be/article/tran...
We've got an international thread of trade unionists in bsky. (Safely) add your comrades:
The right to strike is under attack worldwide but it is resurgent as a strategic tool among workers who know their worth.
The Biden White House published UAW President Shawn Fain's class war sermon. The Trump Admin published a 100 page report on why socialism is bad. The Biden admin's pro-worker and anti-monopoly work doesn't absolve their shortfalls, but they're a hell of a lot better than many of us expected.
The new WGA contract has novel AI language, which will set standards for other CBAs: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material. Writers can use AI if the company allows it, but the company can’t require it’s use. The company must disclose if any materials they give to writers are AI generated.
The WGA reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on a new three-year Minimum Basic Agreement.
No half efforts!
In Nepal, education workers have shut down schools to resist hostile education reforms that restrict freedom of association www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Scores of people march in Kathmandu as a protest over education reforms enter its third day.
In Australia, it's poultry workers asserting their right to strike amp.abc.net.au/article/102888…