The Waco Brothers - Plenty Tough, Union Made
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Au6FS3zGrR8
It's a song for today and every day.
#InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #Union #UnionStrong #UnionMade
Strikes are a great way to push back and build union strength!
A May Day Meditation on the Need for Strikes
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-05-01-may-day-meditation-need-for-strikes/
To-day is #MayDay, also called #InternationalWorkersDay. The date comes from the #HaymarketMartyrs, killed in the US for demanding an eight-hour workday. The US labour movement has gotten way too timid over the last century and it needs to wake tf up.
#UnionStrong #IWW #strike
“Thousands of community organizations, labor unions and human rights activists filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, marking #MayDay, also referred to as International Workers' Day.” #UnionStrong
#BostonWeekend 2/x
Thu #workers: #MayDay rally 530p @ #BostonCommon
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwx1kYhqTR/ bit.ly/bos-mayday2025
#Boston #Labor #1u #UnionStrong #IWW #Massachusetts #InternationalWorkersDay
The Western Pennsylvania Communist Party USA stands with working classes throughout the world in celebration of May Day! Take some time today to reflect on the history of this international holiday and how that history impacts the daily lives of workers throughout the U.S.!
Alberta Health Services has referred to the proposal to stop paying minimum wage (imposing a minimum wage gap) as a "basket of goodies", while doling out raises to managers and non-union employees like candy.
The average living wage in Alberta is $21.72, far above the $15 minimum wage.
https://www.aupe.org/news/news-and-updates/ahs-gss-ahs-loves-low-wages-bargaining-breaks-down
This is the same organization which is privatizing as many of the services administered by General Support Support Services to outside agencies who are charging many times the cost of internal staff, resulting in "horror stories" in Alberta hospitals, such as some staff reporting "finding dentures and used diapers in supposedly clean linens," and other effects of K-Bro's private laundry services (some picture examples below).
Cleanliness is not to be taken so lightly in healthcare. “Health care works when we focus on quality, not profits,” says Curtis Jackson, AUPE vice-president and chair of the union’s Anti-Privatization Committee. “Health care staff and patients across the province experience the awful reality of for-profit laundry services first-hand. Albertans deserve a higher standard of health care, which can only be achieved through public ownership and accountability. Taking publicly-delivered health services out of the public domain and awarding them as contracts to private corporations has consistently cost our province and everyday Albertans more while providing lower quality and diminished outcomes."
This is also the same organization which is giving a 6% raise to union-exempt employees, which largely (2/3rds) consists of management (since management represents the employer's interests and cannot be a part of union efforts), as well as Deputy Ministers appointed by the UCP as part of their "reorganizing" of AHS into 5 separate health ministries, and other positions which can't be unionized (see letter below).
Not only giving management a raise, but snubbing the Union, under-funding public workers, and forcing privatization.
AUPE wants to bargain and negotiate, but AHS wants to go into formal mediation. Perhaps this is the strategy of the Alberta Government who had immediately thrown the Dispute Inquiry Board (DIB) on CUPE workers in public education when they voted to strike.
Though we have Essential Services Agreements which guarantee a minimum staffing requirement exempt from striking, and that is supposed to protect us from such "back to work" orders by an overreaching government.
In any case, AHS General Support Services workers need to be prepared for the possibility of a strike or employer lockout in the upcoming future.
For health, for education, for working conditions, for human rights, for our trans siblings, for kids, for the rivers, the forests, and the ocean.
Stand up workers.
Let's fight back together.
https://www.psa.org.nz/campaigns/fight-back-together-maranga-ake-2025
See you out there.
Wear a mask.
#ThisIsMyUSA
WA State Nurses Association in Bellingham, WA, rally today outside St. Joseph PeaceHealth Hospital.
The union has spent 1300 hours trying to negotiate an acceptable contract and is on the verge of a strike.
One sticking point: PeaceHealth has raised their health insurance premiums and copays, while cutting 100 local physicians from their plan, many of whom the nurses had as their long term providers.
#UnionNews #BellinghamWashington #Event_Bellingham
Tuesday, April 29:
WA State Nurses Assoc Informational Picket at PeaceHealth Hospital.
"Give us a fair contract or face a wall of nurses and community members demanding change."
Two sessions:
Morning Session: 0600–0900
Midday Session & Rally: 1100–1300, with a rally starting at noon.
More info: https://www.wsna.org/union/update/update/4-days-until-we-walk-lets-make-history
2/3 - #PineTreeActivism Calendar
Scheduled Events
Details confirmed as of Sat, April 26th
MAY DAY EVENTS (alphabetical by location)
MAY 1, Thur 12-1:00PM – #GrandIsleME Community Center, 366 Main St. #MayDayStrong: We are Many www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/779019/
MAY 1, Thur 4-5:00PM (& every Thur)– #KennebunkME Rt 1 & Fletcher St, front of Kennebunk Library. Weekly Stand Out To Speak Against Government Actions designed to benefit the powerful. Hosted by Democrats of Kennebunks & Arundel, one of the most active Democratic memberships in Maine.
MAY 1, Thur 12-1:00PM – #MadawaskaME 340 Main St (Pocket Park by Daigle's Furniture. Maine May Day Strong – We Stand United for a world where every family has housing, healthcare, fair wages, union protection, and safety – regardless of race, zip code, or immigration status.
MAY 1, Thur 3:30-6:00PM – #OronoME Village Green (behind the Orono Public Library), 39 Pine St. May Day – #UnionStrong, Stand United for Union Principles https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/780378/
MAY 1, Thur 3:30-6:00PM – #PortlandME - March through the city! 35 Bedford St, USM Portland Campus (in front of McGoldrick Ctr.) #MayDayMarchAgainstTrump – Strength in Solidarity! Starts at USM > Post Office > Portland HS > Portland Museum of Art for music & speakers. Organized locally by #MaineMayDayCommittee https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/778395/
Also, SURJ Meet-Up: Attend May Day Strong Rally together! 3:30-Start at USM. 5:00PM-Portland Museum of Art. 5:30PM-Rally begins Congress Square Park. Organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/776818/
MAY 1, Thur 3:30-5:00PM – #WatervilleME 60 Front St, Head of the Falls. May Day Strong: Waterville – organized by Indivisible Mid Maine for The #NEA: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/780831/
There are no guarantees that any approaches, new or old, to reversing the labor movement’s decline will succeed. But Eric Blanc makes a case for why we should wager on worker-to-worker unionism.
Bet on Worker-to-Worker Organizing
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/blanc-response-worker-organizing-unions/
#USpolitics #TownHall #Nebraska
"TAX THE RICH! Nebraskans drown out multi-millionaire Sen. Pete Ricketts"
by moreperfectunion
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DPTljNqtves
Quote by mpu:
"Apr 24, 2025
Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a multi-millionaire, just held a town hall with constituents who rejected his defense of Trump's tax cuts for the rich.
"You're voting for corporate tax breaks that benefit your family."
#TaxTheRich
#USbeware #FascistsAreHere #TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#WorkersUnite #UnionStrong
Great piece by @404mediaco 's @julesaroscoe on the horrible (wifi) conditions of deep ocean fishermen.
Within this context and all other atrocities related to deep sea fishing I also recommend "The outlaw ocean" by Ian Urbina.
https://www.404media.co/they-sometimes-worry-that-im-dead-already-deep-sea-fishers-fight-for-wi-fi/
#USpolitics #Republicans at #Bernie 's
As the Trump admin [disciples] are trying to gaslight you into believing that 'those are all paid democcrats' [by Soros no less] it is really refreshing to see who shows up at the #FightOligarchy -rallies in those RED states.
They turn out to be Republican voters [that can still think for thenselves].
"Why Republicans Came to a Bernie Sanders Rally" [2:50 min]
by Bernie Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLeolffpJ0g
Quote by BS:
"Apr 22, 2025
We asked Republicans in Bakersfield, CA about why they decided to come out for our Fighting Oligarchy rally. Here’s what they had to say:
#USbeware #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#WorkersUnite #UnionStrong
#AbusiveHealthcare #CapitalismIsFailingYou
“Why is the labor movement so dependent on the government in the first place? Can we afford to be in a situation where one orange man can suspend the union process? The moment has opened our imaginations to what labor organizing would be like without the NLRB.”
No #NLRB? No problem. Via @industrialwrkr
