Today In Labor History April 9, 1930: The IWW organized the 1700-member crew of the Leviathan, the world’s largest ship. Originally a German passenger ship, the U.S. seized it in 1917, during World War I, when it was docked in New York harbor. The U.S. subsequently used it to transport its troops to Europe. In September, 1918, the Leviathan left New Jersey, filled with men dying from Influenza. Dozens perished from the flu on the passage over.
Letra da música “No Veneno” de Strike
#Strike #NoVeneno
https://daletra.com.br/strike/letra/no-veneno.html
Report: 1200+ "Hands Off" protests against Trump & Musk are ready to take to streets across the US today.
We don't want MAGA hands "on our democracy, our communities, our schools, our friends & neighbors".
~Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups organising Saturday's events.
#fascism #uslabor #trump #uspol #musk #strike #resistfascism .
Interview: "Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison"
"Their goal is to ramp up deportations.. as quickly as they can.
"Every single day now, new stories are coming out showing that they made a lot of mistakes."
But even when they admit their mistakes, Trump says he won't return those people to their families.
~Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, American Immigration Council
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/2/trump_deportations_el_salvador_immigrants
#uspol #racism #fascism #trumpdeportations #immigrants #resist #strike .
"As Wellesley College professors go on strike, students are faced with ‘a moral dilemma’"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/01/business/wellesley-college-faculty-strike/
#Wellesley #College #Students #Professors #Strike #Labor #Union
Today in Labor History March 31, 1949: The Canadian Seamen's Union launched a strike that would last six months.
Not a Dad Joke (but relevant to this post):
What's stiff and full of seamen?
.... A submarine.
This boils my blood. I don't know the US labour history, but I do know how hard public sector workers in Canada and Alberta had to fight to gain collective bargaining rights, which they were not allowed because they were "civil servants".
All public worker strikes were wildcat strikes and illegal until 1967 when Federal workers gained the right to collective bargaining through the Public Service Staff Relations Act which took 2 years to pass through Parliament after the wildcat Postal Workers Strike of 1965.
Federal government employees responded by joining unions in record numbers.
Public sector workers in Alberta did not gain these rights until 2016, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that ALL Canadian workers have the fundamental right to strike, essential to even the playing field between workers and employers.
That hasn't even been 10 years ago, that our Provincial healthcare workers, education workers, social workers, wildlife workers, custodial workers, and many more have had access to such basic fundamental rights to legal collective job action! You may not have realized that all these strikes you are seeing now are history in the making!
We are living out a struggle for the right of the working-class to SURVIVE.
It breaks my heart to see our fallen comrades losing this fight with such desperation to the south, and makes me fearful of the coming storm we will have to face in Canada as our populist shadow government pushes to put us down in Canada.
Today in Labor History: March 28, 1968: Martin Luther King led a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Police attacked the workers with mace and sticks. A 16-year old boy was shot. 280 workers were arrested. He was assassinated a few days later after speaking to the striking workers. The sanitation workers were mostly black. They worked for starvation wages under plantation like conditions, generally under racist white bosses. Workers could be fired for being one minute late or for talking back, and they got no breaks. Organizing escalated in the early 1960s and reached its peak in February, 1968, when two workers were crushed to death in the back of a garbage truck.
Today In Labor History March 27, 1904: The authorities kicked Mother Jones out of Colorado for “stirring-up” striking coal miners. Earlier in March, the authorities deported 60 striking miners from Colorado. In June, they arrested 22 in Telluride. For nearly 2 years, strikers, led by the Western Federation of Miners, were violently attacked by Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts detectives. 33 strikers were killed. At least two scholars have said “There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as systematically used by employers as in the Colorado labor war of 1903 and 1904.”
Fascist political candidates don't win unless there're enough voters who feel disenfranchised by the other parties.
From the 1980s, Democrat leaders abandoned the US working class (eg, Clinton) 
Then a narcissistic psychopath came along and promised to get retribution for them.
He was lying of course, but they were desperate for a daddy-saviour.
#trump #fascism #uspol #usworkers #psychopathy #resist #strike #bds .
Today in Labor History March 23, 1970: President Richard Nixon declared a national emergency and sent 30,000 troops to New York City to serve as scabs to break the first nationwide postal strike.
