Today in Labor History March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune began on this date. It started with resistance to occupying German troops and the power of the bourgeoisie. They governed from a feminist and anarcho-communist perspective, abolishing rent and child labor, and giving workers the right to take over workplaces abandoned by the owners. The revolutionaries took control of Paris and held on to it for two months, until it was brutally suppressed. During Semaine Sanglante, the nationalist forces slaughtered 15,000-20,000 Communards. Hundreds more were tried and executed or deported. Many of the more radical communards were followers of Aguste Blanqui. Élisée Reclus was another leader in the commune. Many women participated, like Louise Michel and Joséphine Marchais, including in the armed insurrection. Nathalie Lemel, a socialist bookbinder, and Élisabeth Dmitrieff, a young Russian exile, created the Women's Union for the Defence of Paris and Care of the Wounded, demanding gender and wage equality.

Read my complete biograph of Louise Michel here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/louise-michel/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #paris #commune #anarchism #communism #execution #massacre #feminism #ChildLabor #Revolution #wageequality #socialism #agusteblanqui #ÉliséeReclus #womenshistorymonth #louisemichel

Today in Labor History March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune began on this date. It started with resistance to occupying German troops and the power of the bourgeoisie. They governed from a feminist and anarcho-communist perspective, abolishing rent and child labor, and giving workers the right to take over workplaces abandoned by the owners. The revolutionaries took control of Paris and held on to it for two months, until it was brutally suppressed. During Semaine Sanglante, the nationalist forces slaughtered 15,000-20,000 Communards. Hundreds more were tried and executed or deported. Many of the more radical communards were followers of Aguste Blanqui. Élisée Reclus was another leader in the commune. Many women participated, like Louise Michel and Joséphine Marchais, including in the armed insurrection. Nathalie Lemel, a socialist bookbinder, and Élisabeth Dmitrieff, a young Russian exile, created the Women's Union for the Defence of Paris and Care of the Wounded, demanding gender and wage equality.

Read my complete biograph of Louise Michel here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/louise-michel/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #paris #commune #anarchism #communism #execution #massacre #feminism #ChildLabor #Revolution #wageequality #socialism #agusteblanqui #ÉliséeReclus #womenshistorymonth #louisemichel

Providing a living wage is suicide prevention.

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Millions more workers would be entitled to overtime pay under a proposed Biden administration rule

https://apnews.com/article/work-labor-overtime-pay-biden-ba1613a766bd45c4f15650bb7d361063

#OvertimePay #WorkersRights #BidenAdministration #LaborPolicy #WageEquality #WorkforceBenefits #Politics #News

Finally, gender pay gap transparency reaches Australia’s shores | Crikey

"The farce went something like this: every year WGEA would publish its “gender equality scorecard” and “employer of choice” citations, and the media would be awash in stories of employers “voluntarily” doing the right thing by — choose your own gender equality adventure — conducting gender pay audits, offering paid parental leave that didn’t differentiate between “primary” carers (usually women) and “secondary carers” (usually men). The hope was that more employers could be nudged into doing the right thing, but the reality was — and we all knew it — too many weren’t.

There remained, and still remains, a significant so-called “action gap”. Consider this: the 2021-22 data shows that while just over half of employers (54%) have conducted a pay gap analysis, 40% of those took no action as a result."

https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/27/gender-pay-gap-transparency-bill-australia/

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