ERROR 404 ▼⭕Virée pour avoir défendu la #Palestine, #Melissa_Barrera contre-attaque : elle traite ses ex-collègues de #Scream de « #scabs », lance sa boîte de prod et annonce travailler uniquement avec des #Pro-Palestine.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe first #GeneralStrike of waiters and hotel staff in #NewYorkCity began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1912. Directed by the #IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), it peaked at 6000 workers on #strike. Hotels used #racism and #scabs, and this first strike was only partly successful.
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 7, 1907: Bloody Tuesday occurred in San Francisco. The Street Car workers were among the most militant workers in the city and San Francisco, one of the strongest labor cities in the country. The mayor, Eugene Schmitz, and two city supervisors were from the Union Labor Party. San Francisco workers, particularly the streetcar union, had struck in five of the six years from 1902 to 1907. Capitalists were fed up with the power of the city’s unions and wanted to crush them once and for all. Led by Rudolph Spreckels (the sugar magnate), the bosses hired the Burns Detective agency to undermine the political establishment. They did this by exposing the corruption of the mayor and the board of supervisors. However, the violence started when scabs tried to run the streetcars, resulting in an exchange of gunfire between union men and scabs.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #scabs #sanfrancisco #police #strike #privatepolice #corruption
Today In Labor History March 27, 1912: Start of the 8-month Northern railway strike in Canada by the IWW. Over 8,000 construction workers walked off the job at Northern Railway workcamps Wobblies picketed employment offices in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Tacoma and Minneapolis in order to block the hiring of scabs.
Fellow workers pay attention to what I'm going to mention,
For it is the fixed intention of the Workers of the World.
And I hope you'll all be ready, true-hearted, brave and steady,
To gather 'round our standard when the red flag is unfurled.
CHORUS:
Where the Fraser River flows, each fellow worker knows,
They have bullied and oppressed us, but still our union grows.
And we're going to find a way, boys, for shorter hours and better pay, boys
And we're going to win the day, boys, where the river Fraser flows.
For these gunny-sack contractors have all been dirty actors,
And they're not our benefactors, each fellow worker knows.
So we've got to stick together in fine or dirty weather,
And we will show no white feather, where the Fraser river flows.
Now the boss the law is stretching, bulls and pimps he's fetching,
And they are a fine collection, as Jesus only knows.
But why their mothers reared them, and why the devil spared them,
Are questions we can't answer, where the Fraser River flows.
(Lyrics by Joe Hill, 1912, to the tune of “Where the River Shannon Flows.”)
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #strike #union #railroad #FraserRiver #joehill #scabs #sanfrancisco #vancouver #seattle #minneapolis
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.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #colorado #union #strike #mining #motherjones #WorkplaceViolence #scabs #coal #pinkertons #minewars #wfm #WesternFederationOfMiners #womenshistorymonth
Levka#ICE #TSA #scabs #scabbing #LaborIssues
"ICE agents expected to arrive at U.S. airports to assist with TSA shortages
President Donald Trump has suggested the agents would be arresting undocumented immigrants at airports.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are expected to arrive at airports Monday to assist with staff shortages, a day after President Donald Trump threatened he would do so unless congressional Democrats agreed to a GOP-backed funding deal to end a partial government shutdown."
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.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nixon #scabs #USPS #strike #union
Peter Riley“From the river to the sea” is not the first phrase to be criminalised in this country.
In 2015, the MUA was fined $80,000 and a union official fined $15,000 for putting up posters naming and shaming #scabs during a 2011 dispute. In 2024, 5 union officials were fined between $5,000 and $85,000 for “verbally abusing” scabs . . . touch one, touch all.
We will all be stronger if we fight together.
Sarah Missen (@sarahmissen)
On Wednesday (11/3) two activists were arrested and charged under the state’s new draconian hate speech laws which criminalise the phrases “from the river to the sea” and “globalise the intifada” - if doing so would cause “menace, harassment, or offence”. The Guardian reported: “Liam Parry from the Students for Palestine group had led the protest, where there was a large police presence that included officers [from] the public safety response team. “I’m not sure if everybody here [knows] the history of the different slogans that the government is trying to ban us from saying, so [in] the interests of education, I want to explain [it] to you,” he said at the protest. He went on to deny that the phrase was terroristic or antisemitic, saying it was instead a call for freedom and dignity of the people between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea. “So when we say, from the river to the sea, we are calling for the freedom of the people of Palestine,” he said.' He discouraged others from chanting the slogan. Moments later, as protesters started to march, he was arrested.” A second activist was arrested and charged, likely because they were wearing a shirt that said “from the river to the sea”. From the river to the sea is not the first phrase to be criminalised in this country. In 2015, the MUA was fined $80,000 and a union official fined $15,000 for putting up posters naming and shaming scabs during a 2011 dispute. In 2024, 5 union officials were fined between $5,000 and $85,000 for “verbally abusing” scabs during the Oaky Creek North Dispute in 2017. Officials called scabs “scabs”; “maggots” and “rats”. The Mining & Energy Union was ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation to a worker who had been identified as a scab on signs and on social media. There are also instances of workers being sacked for calling scabs “scabs”. I think it is important to draw these parallels, not to equate workers’ struggles here in Australia with the struggles of the Palestinian people, but to remind us all of one of our unions’ core tenets - touch one, touch all. It is the same governments, bosses and systems that oppress, demean and legislate against workers, that are actively repressing those fighting for justice for Palestinians. We will all be stronger if we fight together. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/two-protesters-arrested-on-first-day-of-queenslands-from-the-river-to-the-sea-ban-ntwnfb
Today in Labor History February 7, 1913: A county sheriff and his deputies on the “Bull Moose Special” (an armored train fitted with machine guns), attacked a miners’ tent colony at Holly Grove, in West Virginia. This was during the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike (4/18/1912 through July 1913). Mother Jones was one of the main organizers. Over 50 people died during the violent confrontations with scabs, goons and private detectives. Countless more died from starvation and malnutrition. In terms of casualties, it was one of the worst strikes in U.S. history. It was a prelude to the bigger and even more violent Battle of Matewan, and the Battle of Blair Mountain (Aug-Sep, 1921). The latter was the largest labor uprising in U.S. history, and the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. 10,000 minors battled 3,000 lawmen and scabs, and only ended with the U.S. army intervened. Up to 100 people died. And during the battle, bombs were dropped on the striking miners by airplane, the 2nd time in U.S. history that had been done. (The first was just months earlier, during the Tulsa Race Massacre).
Read my full article on the Battle of Blair Mountain, and the history leading up to it, here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #motherjones #coal #mining #massacre #bombing #matewan #westvirginia #machineguns #scabs #strike #police #army #insurrection #civilwar
JohnMiners #strike for safer work conditions. Management brings in #scabs. “As far as I know, they fled and refused to work under those conditions.”
https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2026/01/24/miner-ptotest/3150458
#strikes #union #unions #Armenia #WorkplaceSafety #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar