Showing posts with label labor unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor unions. Show all posts
Monday, September 07, 2020

Hold On, I'm Comin'.

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It's where my head is heading. We have the ability to have those fights on offense under a Biden presidency while we are likely to...
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Fire in the Hole.

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Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts. Labor Day is M...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Labor Day 2019: It SHOULD be honored on May 1. Today is a boss's holiday, but we'll celebrate with songs about working people, and thoughts by Dan Canon.

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Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts. Labor Day is M...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 19: Department heads, insurance peddlers, duffers and a few other odds and ends from Gahan's long and winding money trail.

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Previously: The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 18: Clark Dietz, CD PAC top Gahan's "Quality of Distant Corporate Donors" ch...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Just one of those "no shit, Sherlock" moments: "Sickouts and Strike Threats Stopped the Government Shutdown."

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Workers organizing to further their own interests, rather than those of the oligarchs. What a concept. Sickouts and Strike Threats S...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Becker: "What’s happening at Four Roses has implications for both the broader labor movement, as well as future generations of American workers."

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Photo credit: WKYT. I didn't know an international brewing company (Kirin) owned Four Roses. In Japanese , "kirin" ca...
Monday, September 03, 2018

Labor Day should be May 1. Today is a boss's holiday, but we'll celebrate with songs about working people, and thoughts by Dan Canon.

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Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts. Labor Day is ...
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Friday, June 01, 2018

Solidarity with the Communications Workers of America union members picketing AT&T on Spring Street.

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I was walking up Spring Street earlier and stopped to chat with the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union members who are on strik...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Vandals strike Asheville brewery: “No more breweries” and “**** Beer City.”

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My initial thought upon reading about "anti-brewery vandalism" in Asheville was something on the order of:  "Just their luc...
Monday, September 04, 2017

The workers' holiday? That'd be May 1 -- and American workers did that.

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Just as long as we're clear about the fact of the matter, I'm down with today. Labor Day is May 1 , by Jonah Walters ( Jacobin...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Long read: "Major league baseball has a long but little-known history of rebels, reformers, and radicals."

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Bud Selig is to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. That's actually more repulsive as Donald Trump being elected president. ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Time to learn something: "Friday is César Chávez Day, but who was César Chávez?"

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Source. The Wikipedia answer: César Chávez Day Cesar Chavez Day is a federal commemorative holiday in the U.S. by proclamation of...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Resisting, are you? That's nice. Now learn about Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.

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I could be wrong about this, but posting memes on Facebook might fall a bit short of what's needed. Mother Jones: The Woman , by E...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Essential reading: "The 'middle class' myth: Here’s why wages are really so low today."

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According to Oil Can Eddie, "Class consciousness discourages office workers from unionizing." I'd guess that something qu...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Plaid Friday 3: "Americans have chosen cheap ... (and) it's led to a cycle of impoverishment."

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Something to consider while you're standing in line. Who's Really to Blame for the Wal-Mart Strikes? The American Consumer , by J...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Rock on: "America’s biggest retailer may be in for an unexpectedly painful holiday season."

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The Hostess Twinkie extinction stories are mere empty calories compared with the real action.  Bloomberg Businessweek provides the overview...
Monday, September 03, 2012

REWIND: Labor Day screeching, and Labor Day reading.

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(Originally published in September, 2009) The first part of the transgendered professor's Labor Day screed are the words of Samuel Gom...
Monday, September 05, 2011

Erika unleashed: "Eye" before "eeee!" except after "see."

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At least Erika has a sense of humor . To celebrate America's purported Labor Day (most for the rest of the planet observes the concept o...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

My first bicentennial logo entry.

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The seal of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor , an imperfect group to be sure but New Albany's best hope before being cru...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Speaking of statements of moral authority....

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Check out James Kelso in late 1800s New Albany, via Lawrence Lipin's Burying the "Destroyer of One Happy Home" again: