#Esperanto and the radical workers' movement.

"Nations are realities; they are facts. To recognize a fact, however, is not to justify it. Religions and epidemics are facts, but their existence is not justified on that account." - Eugène Lanti

https://libcom.org/article/why-there-esperanto-workers-movement-gary-mickle

#Anationalism #internationalism #antinationalism #antistatism #alterglobalization #linguistics #conlang #workerorganizing #eugenelanti #libcom #SennaciecaAsocioTutmonda

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

Wise words from Jane McAlevey on the importance of sustained (#union and other) #workerorganizing for the long run.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/labor-organizing-great-resignation-unions/

Rosado-Marzán’s essay, “Fair Transition Funds, Employer Neutrality, and Card Checks: How Industrial #Policy Could Relaunch #LaborUnions in the United States,” explores lessons learned in #PuertoRico and #Sweden. It suggests how contemporary U.S. industrial policy could sustain “new #WorkerOrganizing and build power from the bottom up.”

https://newsismybusiness.com/essay-lessons-from-puerto-rico-sweden-could-shape-us-labor-strategy/

Heard on: Striking Starbucks workers chant outside of a Starbucks coffee shop during a national strike. Several. Above ...

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of workers who went on strike increased almost 50% last year, compared to 2021.
Why so many workers are going on strike these days - Marketplace