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Mandu and Mom Jul 28, 2023

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Did you know that in the US, labor unions began forming locally in the mid-19th century in response to the social and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution?

With unions at the forefront of everyone’s minds right now, it’s important to understand the history of unions and why we’re seeing such a strong (and necessary) resurgence: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/usa-labor-unions-worker-rights

Past, Present And Future Of U.S. Labor Unions

What’s behind a 21st century resurgence of labor unions in the United States after the upheaval of the late 1900s.

The Big Picture

Chrismxtx Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei Here in Texas many of my fellow liberals fail to understand the importance. Unfortunate.

Democracy Matters

Without unions, we’d all be starving at the mercy of the billionaire class…

#TaxTheRich #SAGAFTRA #WGA

Carza Jul 28, 2023

@DemocracyMattersALot @georgetakei
It’s happening all over the world, big corporations are turning the whole world into to a third world universe. They have to be stopped and get be to normalcy. Us little people are now struggling to get by while their pockets are overflowing. Time to START TAXING THE RICH. Without little people doing their dirty work, they would have nothing. I cannot see them getting their hands 🙌 dirty, can you?

cogitate Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei unions (and employers who invest in their employees in general) are so much more important now. How can we claim to have a democracy and a just society when our everyday lives are being taken over by the whims of billionaires?

@georgetakei
corporations left to their own devices will exploit labor at an inhumane level

David H. McCoy Jul 28, 2023

The GOP’s vision is kids working 70 hours a week, with no water break, for pennies, while pregnant, to build character.

Pete Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei maybe unions can can turn our plutocratic gerentocracy back into a democracy.

AirForcePam Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei we are having a resurgence in American manufacturing & a large amt of infrastructure building so of course Unions are growing in numbers & want more from the companies they are working for. FINALLY, there is American Growth.

Chris Laslett Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei There’s a really interesting podcast about the IWW from @magpiekilljoy here https://overcast.fm/+5O9QcCSD4

Part One: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech — Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Ed Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei https://mastodonapp.uk/@ucu/110740681836044096

UCU (@[email protected])

A consultation launched today by the USS Trustee shows that the scheme is on track for full restoration of pension benefits by April 2024, reversing the cuts imposed on staff in April 2022. The cuts saw members lose on average 35% from their guaranteed retirement income. Figures included in the consultation demonstrate that not only can the cuts be restored, but that the contributions members are required to pay can be reduced. https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13093/UCU-higher-education-members-to-be-congratulated-as-pension-consultation-shows-a-significantly-lower-contribution-rate-and-total-restoration-of-benefits-on-track-for-April-2024?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social&campaign=ucuRISING #UCU #ucuRISING #USS #HigherEducation

Mastodon App UK

DonThom Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei Syndicalism is such an effective tool that capitalists have been trying to stop efforts of the proletariat from unionizing since at least the 19th century, but more realistically, as long as the idea of capital has been around. The need to take advantage of someone else’s labor for another’s gain is at the very heart of capitalism and classism.

DonThom Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei As we start to utilize Syndicalism, this allows the fruits of the labor to become better redistributed amongst the people who produced the labor needed. #IWW #DirectAction #unionize #solidarity

J Lou Jul 28, 2023

@AcesAreWild @georgetakei In terms of property rights, unionizing doesn't really give workers the fruits of their labor. The employer appropriates 100% of the positive and negative fruits of the workers' joint labor while the #workers receive 0% of the fruits of their labor. The only way to correct this so that the workers jointly appropriate the fruits of their labor is to re-structure the firm as a worker #coop. Workers don't just produce #labor. They are responsible for all production

DonThom Jul 28, 2023

@jlou @georgetakei You are very correct! That is actually a large part of syndicalism though, particularly anarcho-syndicalism. This is because when trying to employ syndicalism you would create a coop like you suggested, it is just referred to as a syndicate within this context. So yes, I 100% agree with your take

Catherine Schmidt Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei just read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle to get a test of why there are unions….if it hasn’t been banned in a library near you.

ALF Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei Hikaru Sulu defended universal rights in fiction. George Takei defended universal rights in real life. Thank you.

RainCityBunnies Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei
an example of the need for unions is the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, which killed 146 workers

Alejandro Jul 28, 2023

@georgetakei Hi George! I've always been a big fan of your work, but realizing now as I read your toots that you hold such political commitments...! I now admire you all the more for it. People say "never meet your heroes". If that was ever a thing, you prove it wrong! Thank you for your activism and your commitment to popular causes. Big hug from Argentina.

Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦Jul 29, 2023

@georgetakei #TeamUnion !!! 🖖 ❤️

Aoífe ní Aodhagáin aka Evaliz Jul 30, 2023

@georgetakei so many of the privileges we take for granted now, like weekends off and vacation time we owe to organized labour.

Dale Worthington Jul 31, 2023

@georgetakei I know this! Because Boards of
Directors are greedy bunch of mother truckers!