Eli FriedmanJust wanted to let folks know about the #Cornell Labor Action Tracker, the only comprehensive database of strikes in the United States. Government stopped collecting most strike data under Reagan so we decided to do it!
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Rebecca ColesworthyHere goes: an #introduction! I’m an #editor at #SUNYPress, acquiring in #GenderStudies, #QueerStudies, #LatinAmericanStudies, #LiteraryStudies, #education, and more more more. My home field is #modernism and I wrote a book about modernist #womenwriters and thinking about the #gift in post-WWI literature and the social sciences. Trying to fight the good fight on behalf of #UniversityPress workers. Here to boost #labor issues and organizing in #HigherEducation.
jack ⍼#histodons Mutulu Shakur is being released! Among other things, he was deeply involved in the pioneering efforts of the Lincoln Detox, a collaborative effort of the Young Lords and other New Left groups to create a community run response to Narcotics Addiction at Lincoln Hospital, which they occupied (a successor operates, but the original program was ended by 1978). It still influences how addiction treatment is carried out—and people forget how radical it once was:
Today is the 81st anniversary of the first #strike by Yale custodial and maintenance, and physical plant workers. It was a one-day strike for recognition, and it was successful. 10 years later, the members of Local 142 left the United Construction Workers to form the independent Federation of University Employees. After organizing the dining hall workers in 1955, (and a 2-week strike in 1953) they affiliated with the Hotel and Restaurant Workers and became Local 35, which they remain today.
Today is the 17th anniversary of the first day of the 2005-2006 GSOC-UAW strike at New York University, still the longest strike in the history of the US graduate employee labor movement.
Adam FilipowiczSomething that needs more attention on #academic and #science Mastodon: UAW Academic Workers have announced a multi-unit statewide #strike against the #UniversityofCalifornia for unlawful conduct, beginning November 14th. This might be the largest academic worker strike in US history.
Please support my fellow postdocs, grad students, and researchers in whatever way you can as we fight for fair labor rights: https://www.fairucnow.org/support/.
I’m Zach SW. I teach #americanStudies, #laborhistory, #RacialCapitalism, and #abolitionistuniversitystudies in upstate New York. I’m very slowly working on turning my dissertation about the history of #strikes by food service, maintenance, and custodial workers at Yale in the 1960s and 1970s into a book, and I’m also working on abolitionist university studies with three co-conspirators who are not, AFAIK, currently on this platform. I also post about #birds and #birding.
Musk announcing his purchase of twitter with the phrase “the bird is free” is reminiscent of Marx’s description of the primitively-accumulated proletariat as “vogelfrei” (bird-free, free as a bird,) with nothing left to its name and therefore nowhere to be. With at least some percentage of the site’s users deserting the platform, and massive layoffs of twitter employees, this phrase now seems pretty apt, albeit in a deeply ironic sense.