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The strike by workers at Creamland Diary & supporters was successful 💪
After avoiding it for 3 months, the company sat down & negotiated fairly & transparently last week and they found common ground: https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/union-creamland-dairy-reach-labor-agreement-to-end-strike/
"Farmers in the rural region near the New York border say those stories are not unique.
'The whole thing is screwed up,' said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. 'We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.'”
#Trump #economy #farmers #agriculture #NewYork #immigrants #deportations#ICE#MaskedThugs #labor #workers
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Professor Francesca Klug, a human rights expert (quoted by Rachel Sylvester in the Observer):
'Withdrawing from the ECHR is like a sacrifice to the gods. It would have little bearing on stopping asylum seekers from coming over on small boats, but it would severely reduce cooperation with other European states'.
It seem likely that behind this clamour to constrain human rights' protection is the Right's paymasters' desire to reduce workers' protections!
#ECHR #workers
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/a-useful-political-scapegoat-how-human-rights-play-out-in-the-uk
Professor Francesca Klug, a human rights expert (quoted by Rachel Sylvester in the Observer):
'Withdrawing from the ECHR is like a sacrifice to the gods. It would have little bearing on stopping asylum seekers from coming over on small boats, but it would severely reduce cooperation with other European states'.
It seem likely that behind this clamour to constrain human rights' protection is the Right's paymasters' desire to reduce workers' protections!
#ECHR #workers
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/a-useful-political-scapegoat-how-human-rights-play-out-in-the-uk
Unlike some other infrastructure projects, the Thames Tideway sewage tunnel in London has been completed on time & almost exactly on budget, majority funded via a surcharge on London water bills.
Perhaps key to the success of the project was that workers were all employed (no zero hour contracts) received significant training & were treated well, leading CEO Andy Mitchell to attribute much of the project's success to its employee relations!
Seems like a simple lesson!
Unlike some other infrastructure projects, the Thames Tideway sewage tunnel in London has been completed on time & almost exactly on budget, majority funded via a surcharge on London water bills.
Perhaps key to the success of the project was that workers were all employed (no zero hour contracts) received significant training & were treated well, leading CEO Andy Mitchell to attribute much of the project's success to its employee relations!
Seems like a simple lesson!
Unlike some other infrastructure projects, the Thames Tideway sewage tunnel in London has been completed on time & almost exactly on budget, majority funded via a surcharge on London water bills.
Perhaps key to the success of the project was that workers were all employed (no zero hour contracts) received significant training & were treated well, leading CEO Andy Mitchell to attribute much of the project's success to its employee relations!
Seems like a simple lesson!
In fact, I wrote about this a few months ago
In fact, I wrote about this a few months ago
"Working people want #unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demanding a voice."
from #CommonDreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025#Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of #labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/support-for-labor-unions
#WorkersRights#Workers#LaborMovement#LaborUnions#USA#US#USPolitics #sindicatos #news #politics
"Working people want #unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demanding a voice."
from #CommonDreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025#Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of #labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/support-for-labor-unions
#WorkersRights#Workers#LaborMovement#LaborUnions#USA#US#USPolitics #sindicatos #news #politics
More evidence (this time from the public sector in Scotland) that the four day week not only improves workers' wellbeing, it also improves productivity. Moreover, this is a proper four day week - rescued hours but no loss of pay - making it a powerful example, both for the Scottish government's management of its civil service & more widely.
The momentum is building for the four day week & its social benefits....
More evidence (this time from the public sector in Scotland) that the four day week not only improves workers' wellbeing, it also improves productivity. Moreover, this is a proper four day week - rescued hours but no loss of pay - making it a powerful example, both for the Scottish government's management of its civil service & more widely.
The momentum is building for the four day week & its social benefits....
To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap #labor & cheap #nature. You have to deny people control over their #land, & deny #workers access to the yields of their #production.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
For fuck's sake, I'm BEGGING #liberals to understand that the #capitalist government, run by #capitalists, owning a stake in a #company, is #capitalism, NOT# socialism. It's not socialism if it's not done by a #workers' state for the benefit of the workers.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
For fuck's sake, I'm BEGGING #liberals to understand that the #capitalist government, run by #capitalists, owning a stake in a #company, is #capitalism, NOT# socialism. It's not socialism if it's not done by a #workers' state for the benefit of the workers.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
Yesterday in 1953, the #US & #Britain carried out a brutal #coup that deposed #MohammadMosaddegh, the popular Prime Minister of #Iran, beloved for his #progressive & pro #workers reform, because he sought to restore national control over the country's #oil reserves.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
Yesterday in 1953, the #US & #Britain carried out a brutal #coup that deposed #MohammadMosaddegh, the popular Prime Minister of #Iran, beloved for his #progressive & pro #workers reform, because he sought to restore national control over the country's #oil reserves.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
Phillip Inman's suggestion for a volunteer workforce of boomers (to make up for their luck & political resistance to wholesale tax reform) is all very well as an inter-generational poetical justice but of course not only involves the (sometimes difficult, as he acknowledges) management of volunteers, also presents a major problem around paid work.
Having more voluntary 'work' undermines any programme to make work pay, and to provide 'good work' for the young!
#workers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/09/if-boomers-dont-want-wealth-taxes-they-can-give-their-time-and-skills
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