#UK: three #strikebreakers dismissed by management after talking to picketers. They join #strike
https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2025/march/birmingham-bin-agency-workers-fired-for-talking-to-picketers-join-strikes
#scabs #strikes #union #unions #Birmingham #agencies #Unite #JobSecurity #HumanRights #WRCO #RaceToTheBottom #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar
Port Adelaide’s #strike caused by a retrogressive federal award for #watersideworkers so striking wharfies attacked #strikebreakers AS Blackburn V.C. formed the Essential Services Maintenance Volunteers and 500 middle-class men were sworn in as special constables. Blackburn’s ‘Black and Tans’ patrolled the port with rifle and bayonet. #Scabs got jobs
https://labornotes.org/2023/10/new-jersey-nurses-two-months-strike-safe-staffing
#NewJersey #nurses call for #SafeStaffing similar to #California's, which led to less #burnout and lower #MortalityRates - "Our system treats nurses more as a #cost center than a #ValueCreator"
#MortalityRate #ValueCreation #CreationOfValue #RWJUH #NewBrunswick #Rutgers #retaliation #UnionBusting #HealthInsurance #TravelingNurses #scabs #StrikeBreakers #injunctions #A4536
There ought to be nine nurses on the day shift at 9 Tower, a trauma surgery unit inside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Instead, some days there are just three. “Sometimes I’d look at a patient’s face and know that I won’t be able to maybe help feed them when they need to be fed,” said nurse Sophia Moccio, “or clean them when they need to be cleaned. It is distressing, and depressing for us.” Staffing levels this bad are a major reason why she and 1,700 of her co-workers at RWJUH have been on strike since August 4.
Safety fears have been raised at a strike-hit Scots weapons plant that supplies missiles to Ukraine after an accident with a fork lift
GMB Scotland said that the accident has sparked “grave” safety fears over troops being used to fill in for striking workers as a contingency plan.
#Scotland #Beith #StormShadow #strike #WageSlaves #GMB #safety #military #scabs #StrikeBreakers
These aren't just any scabs, either. They're predominantly Black workers who rely on the $700m #Instawork app for gigs. These workers are being dispatched to cross the picket line without any warning that they're being contracted as #strikebreakers. When workers refuse the cross the picket and join the strike, Instawork cancels all their shifts and permanently blocks them from new jobs.
This is a new, technologically supercharged form of illegal strikebreaking.
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@Gte Maybe #StrikeBreakers wouldn't be so much if #Unions weren't picky about admitting new members?
Not that I justify backstabbing fellow wageworkers - that's always bad.
But if >99% of all U.S. households can't handle a surprise expense of $400, they can much less accept a paycheck cut, and employers know that most #WageWorkers are in a #Precariat!
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8RTtnPQ/
I 100% agree with the message in that TikTok; I would support a #NationalStrike
#Labor #Unions #UPS #WritersGuildAmerica #Organize #Strike #ShutItAllDown #WealthyElite #CEOs #Support #StrikeBreakers #Landlords #Rich #Shareholders #Musk #Elon #Bezos #Actors #Writers #Teachers #Nurses #Teamsters #HotelWorkers #Agriculture #Railroad #ScreenActorsGuild #SAG #Truckers #Starbucks #GroceryWorkers
He dismissed as “nonsense” and “silly” any talk of a general strike to back the AP Parts workers. Owen Bieber [Photo: UAW].
The 285-day strike by Toledo AP Parts workers was the longest in the history of the city and bears important lessons for autoworkers today.
Lessons of the 1984-1985 AP Parts strike in Toledo
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
John
Peter Riley
Mark
Cory Doctorow
Kevin Karhan 
Don Hawkins - W7DAH
General Strike Now
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