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wildcat and sympathy #strikes #slowdowns, confronted strikebreakers, smashed milk bottles, blocked depots challenged bosses, who worked them seven days a week, trade union officials, who often refused to organise official #strikeaction despite popular enthusiasm for militant #milkcarriers of #ForestHill and #Catford

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27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (#IWW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois. One of the first multiracial unions in the US, #Wobblies organized all workers into #onebigunion, to end exploitation and abolish #capitalism.

It organised large swathes of previously unorganised workers in the US, and pioneered many innovative new types of #directaction like #slowdowns, #sitins and #sabotage.

Anti-war IWW was made illegal; organizers beaten, jailed and murdered.

"We are #labor! You can not exist without us" ✊🏿

Every #worker everywhere should take action, now.

#Strikes. #SlowDowns. "#QuietQuitting" (i.e., do only what you've agreed to when #hired or in #negotiation, and are fairly paid for, not one bit more, ever).

Your boss is never your friend. Demand ALL that is rightfully yours.

YOU do the work, YOU are the value, not any executive.

Only as long as you keep eating it will they keep feeding you bullshit, so stop.

#Union

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