#Union news and an interview with Alexis Vassiley author of the new book Striking ore 'The Rise and fall of union power in the #Pilbara'. Striking ore focuses on the workers themselves including their agitating for hard won breakthroughs in pay, conditions and safety.
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/striking-ore-rise-and-fall-union-power-pilbara
#FIFO (Fly in Fly out - casual workers)
#labormovement #mineworkers #organize #solidarity #unions
#communityradio #3CR
This episode with host James Brennan brings you union news and an interview with Alexis Vassiley author of the new book Striking ore 'The Rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara'. Striking ore focuses on the workers themselves including their agitating for hard won breakthroughs in pay, conditions and safety.
🎵 Is that the wind you hear howlin’ through the holler?
Or the ghost of a widow that cries?
For every man that died for a coal company dollar
A lung full of dust and a heart full of lies”
—“It’s About Blood,” Steve Earle (2020) 🎶
#BlackLung epidemic is tearing through #Appalachia, killing miners as young as their 30s. And the Trump admin just defunded #NIOSH, the worker health agency that’s been tracking it.
2023
https://inthesetimes.com/article/coal-miners-black-lung-young-dying-old-mans-disease-kim-kelly
Miners dismissed for organizing march barefoot. October 2024
https://bianet.org/haber/miners-dismissed-for-unionizing-march-barefoot-to-parliament-300606
Interview (2020)
https://birartibir.org/a-union-governed-by-those-who-produce/
June 1983 - December 1984. the #union that represented the workers was decertified. capital teamed with government to crush labour … earlier in 1981 air traffic controller strike POTUS Reagan broke the strike overnight; fired 11,000 unionised controllers in a single morning and then banned them from working in the federal service ever again.
#BarbaraKingsolver #mineworkers #Arizona #strike #workingclasshistory
#labormovement #project2025 #Bookstodon
As the Pulitzer-winning author’s little-known first book is published in the UK, she discusses the roots of division in the US, her wild childhood, and putting the story straight about where she’s from
2024
https://karibu.org.za/the-marikana-struggle-and-the-argument-for-a-living-wage/
2022
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/marikana-massacre-miners-police-killings-anniversary/
2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_massacre
#Marikana #mineworkers #labormovement #platinum #livingwage #workingpoor #Capitalism
Thanks @workingclasshistory
#Matewan #MingoCounty #WestVirginia
#MineWorkers #Strike #WorkingClassHistory
The WV Mine Wars Museum preserves and interprets artifacts and historical records of the local communities affected by the Mine Wars, exploring historical events from multiple perspectives through the lives of ordinary people. The museum is dedicated to educating the public about the events of the M
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