We might be on day 11 of our strike action, but we’re not letting up.

From North West region in Manchester, up to Scotland and back down to Gateshead and Sheffield, out members were out in force this morning.

#Strike #UniteTheUnion

#birmingham #bin #strike #union #UnionStrong #1u #uk #UkPol

Sign the petition to support bin workers here: https://t.co/fbEpLbVvRu

Donate to the strike fund – Unite WM/7186 Branch, account: 20308397, sort code: 608301. Title donation: BCC Strike Donation

https://www.shopstewards.net/2025/04/nssn-722-support-the-striking-birmingham-bin-workers/

Focus "Teen Movie" 30/34

Les filles font la loi (1998)
aka "Strike ! Les filles contre-attaquent"

★★☆☆

Un teen-movie féministe, certes sympathique, mais pas mémorable pour autant.

✍️ La suite ici :
https://www.senscritique.com/film/strike_les_filles_contre_attaquent/critique/317650237

#LesFillesFontLaLoi #LesFillesContreAttaquent #Strike #KirstenDunst #GabyHoffmann #RachaelLeighCook #HeatherMatarazzo #MatthewLawrence #TeenMovie #Film #Cinema

#BrumBins: Work to clear rubbish backlog continues as striking bin workers vote to reject council's offer

READ: https://bvoices.uk/3RjwKV4

#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK
#strike #unite #industrialaction
#B31Voices #BVoices

Today in Labor History April 14, 1930: Over 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers were arrested for union activities in Imperial Valley, CA. 8 were convicted of “criminal syndicalism.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #imperialvalley #mexican #filipino #union #farmworkers #immigrant #strike #syndicalism #prison #repression #antilabor

Today in Labor History April 14, 1917: IWW sailors went on strike in Philadelphia and won a ten dollar per month raise. Ben Fletcher, an African-American IWW organizer, was instrumental in organizing the Philadelphia waterfront. Fletcher was born in Philly in 1890. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913.

In 1913, Fletcher led 10,000 IWW Philly dockworkers on a strike. Within two weeks, they won a 10-hr day, overtime pay, & created one of the most successful antiracist, anticapitalist union locals in the U.S. At the time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.

By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color.

Fletcher also traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. And in 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.

You can read my full biography of Ben Fletcher here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #benfletcher #racism #africanamerican #philadelphia #longshore #lynching #BlackMastadon

> When radical things happen, only fools do not become more radical. History can explain the present, but getting locked into a dynamic that no longer works is how things go extinct. The strike is our power. Get ready, willing, and able to use that power. The greatest tragedy would be seeing unions shrivel up and wither away without a fight.

Not Just Unions; Strike-Ready Unions.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/not-just-unions-strike-ready-unions

#union #strike #unionize #HaveYouUnionizedYet #leftist

Will you participate in the #strike at #Wageningen University and Research today! We see eachother from 9:30 onwards on the AID field (close to the bells). We see this as a #climatestrike!

#staking #WUR @resource