Today in Labor History February 3, 1910: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones addressed Milwaukee brewery workers during a two-month stint working alongside women bottle-washers while on leave from the United Mine Workers:

"Condemned to slave daily in the wash-room in wet shoes and wet clothes, surrounded with foul-mouthed, brutal foremen . . . the poor girls work in the vile smell of sour beer, lifting cases of empty and full bottles weighing from 100 to 150 pounds, in their wet shoes and rags, for they cannot buy clothes on the pittance doled out to them. . . . Rheumatism is one of the chronic ailments and is closely followed by consumption . . . An illustration of what these girls must submit to, one about to become a mother told me with tears in her eyes that every other day a depraved specimen of mankind took delight in measuring her girth & passing comments."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #MotherJones #workingconditions #women #exploitation #milwaukee #publichealth #wages #wageslavery

#podcast Dive into a powerful conversation with the political scientist, historian, curator and anti-racist decolonial feminist Françoise Vergès as she unpacks the social and environmental politics of cleaning, waste and vital needs, questioning how water, air, food, housing, medicine and hygiene are constructed through systems of racial capitalism and coloniality.

https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/

#workingconditions #waste #activism #museum #decolonialism #art

🏷️#US #AirTrafficControllers #WorkingConditions #LowMoral # #FAA

🎁 🔗 https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/these-air-traffic-controllers-are-leaving-their-jobsand-heading-to-australia-13935de6?st=q5Ncbq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Economic tension is turning us against each other: https://www.aurianneor.org/economic-tension-is-turning-us-against-each-other/

#abundance, #art, #aurianneor, #citizen, #compassion, #crises, #democracy, #differences, #docile, #economictension, #economy, #election,# inequalities, #intolerance, #photomontage, #pittingpeopleagainsteachother, #politicians, #politics, #power, #precariousness, #publicinterest, #qualityoflife, #standardof iving, #strategies, #tolerance, #ultra-rich, #unemployment, #wages, #workingconditions

UPS driver goes viral after sharing his weekly paycheck

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/ups-driver-viral-paycheck-ex1

Immigration: https://www.aurianneor.org/immigration-2/

#agriculture #art #asylum #aurianneor #decentwork #democracy #detentioncenters #developmentaid #environment #farmer #immigration #inequalities #insecurity #justice #laborshortage #laborer #law #medical #migrants #multinationals #worker #nononsense #Photomontage, #politics #pollution #prison #racisme #restaurants #social #unfaircompetiton #workinspector, #workers #workingconditions

#UAW Issues Statement Condemning Dangerous #WorkingConditions and #ImmigrationRaid at #Hyundai

https://uaw.org/uaw-issues-statement-condemning-dangerous-working-conditions-and-immigration-raid-at-hyundai/

ICYMI 📻 We talk to Zarina Muhammad, who walks us through The White Pube’s collaborative process and projects to date. We delve into Zarina’s diasporic identity and the politics of assimilation, as well as polyvocal narratives and fiction as critique.

📚 48:09 — The Successful Funding Application Library
💸 36:54 — “I could have even more ideas if I were rich.”

https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-428-zarina-muhammad/

On self-publishing, redistribution, and the realities of making art under capitalism #podcast #workingconditions

Today in Labor History September 2, 1991: 25 workers were killed by a fire at the nonunion Imperial Foods poultry processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Bosses had locked the doors in violation of the law, leaving the workers no way to escape. The accompanying video is of the Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster song, performed by Mojo Nixon and Jello Biafra, with an accompanying slide show about the disaster.

If you thought the bosses learned anything from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which killed 146 young immigrant women in 1911, or that the new labor laws enacted in its aftermath would protect workers, you’d be dead wrong. Workplace hazards kill approximately 140,000 workers each year (over 5,000 from traumatic injuries and roughly 135,000 from occupational diseases), or over 350 workers per day. And this is believed to be a vast undercount. Many of these deaths and injuries are due to violations of labor and workplace safety laws. Even before Trump gutted OSHA, the agency was hamstrung by low funding and understaffing, resulting in an enormous backlog of inspections. The numbers will likely be much higher for 2025, once the data has been collected, due to the many attacks by Trump and Congress on workers’ rights and protections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8iPdu_Tq1I&list=RDl8iPdu_Tq1I&start_radio=1

https://aflcio.org/reports/dotj-2025

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hamlet #foodprocessing #workingconditions #workplacesafety #northcarolina #trump #osha #union #unionbusting