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Peter Riley

After a 74-hour #strike by 1,000 workers, the #Nexperia #Philippines Workers’ Union secured the reinstatement of #union leaders Mary Ann Castillo (president) and Girlie Battad (union official), along with a PHP50 (US$0.87) #wageincrease over three years.

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3CR Community Radio · Victory to the Philippines Nexperia workersAfter a 74-hour strike by 1,000 workers, the Nexperia Philippines Workers’ Union secured the reinstatement of union leaders Mary Ann Castillo (president) and Girlie Battad (union official), along with a PHP50 (US$0.87) wage increase over three years. My guest today is Rochelle Porras from Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research in the Philippines.
#laborMovement#organize#solidarity
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Miguel Symonds Orr
Design Labor is Work. Workers Need Unions.

I'm glad to see conversations about design and labor multiply in design spaces and social media circles. Design professionals are often taught to see themselves as artists and not workers, which helps to keep designers from advocating collectively for better working conditions - a concept Marisa Cortright names "The Myth of the Calling". Read Cortright's essay "Death to the Calling: A Job in Architecture Is Still a Job" in Failed Architecture for more on this idea. https://failedarchitecture.com/author/marisa-cortright/

#architectsneedunions #jointhemovement #union #solidarity #architecture #architectureunion #1u #labormovement #uwcbe #uwcollegeofbuiltenvironments #gouldhall #gouldhalluw #uwlandscapearchitecture #uwarchitecture #rhino3d #rhinoceros3d #3dmodeling #digitaldrawing #illustrationartists #illustration
An isometric drawing of staircases in UW's Gould Hall building with text surrounding that reads "Design Labor is Work. Workers need unions." The design is black and white with a noise texture added.
#Illustration
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it.

If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, that’s fine; he’s making a case. The book is a compelling case not only for organizing millions more workers into the labor movement but for doing it in a way that could help them build power in their unions and in their workplaces.

Blanc is clear that neither he nor the worker-organizers he writes about have invented the notion that workers should have control of their own organizing drives. He cites examples beginning with the early twentieth-century Wobblies to show that bottom-up, nonbureaucratized unionism is an ancient thread in our movement.

Today’s worker-to-worker unionism, in Blanc’s definition, means that workers train other workers in organizing methods, unlike the usual union practice of leaving that mentoring to staffers. The organizing drive itself is initiated by workers, rather than being chosen by union strategists. And the workers have a decisive say on day-to-day strategy — at least partly because there are just fewer staffers around. Hopefully, that’s also because the union has accepted the wisdom of letting workers lead."

jacobin.com/2025/03/blanc-work

jacobin.comLet Workers LeadThe “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.
#Unions#LaborMovement#WorkerToWorker
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant Workers

from #WorldOutlook
March 12, 2025

"The following is a statement by the #AmazonLaborUnion – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (#ALU-IBT) Local 1 defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The #ALU represents #Amazon workers at the company’s giant JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

The #ALU statement sets a good example of how the labor movement needs to treat immigrant workers: as fellow workers, as brothers and sisters.

This question has become urgent as the Trump administration has escalated raids, arrests, and deportations of immigrants under the guise of expelling “foreign criminals” from the United States. "

world-outlook.com/2025/03/12/a

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#Teamsters #news

World-Outlook · Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant WorkersThis is a statement by the Amazon Labor Union – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (ALU-IBT Local 1) defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The ALU represents Amazon workers at the company's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
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Peter Riley

After 46 days on the picket line, nurses walked back into eight #Providence hospitals across #Oregon in good spirits after ratifying a new contract with their employer February 26. Their effort was bolstered by striking doctors, nurse practitioners at Providence St. Vincent’s, and doctors, nurses, and midwives at the Providence Women’s Clinics.

labornotes.org/2025/03/oregon-

Labor Notes · Oregon Nurses End 46-Day Strike with Pay and Staffing AgreementsAfter 46 days on the picket line, nurses walked back into eight Providence hospitals across Oregon in good spirits after ratifying a new contract with their employer February 26. Their effort was bolstered by striking doctors, nurse practitioners, and other hospitalists at Providence St. Vincent’s, and doctors, nurses, and midwives at the Providence Women’s Clinics. The agreements for the 5,000 nurses, who are represented by Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), include improvements in staffing language, pay raises, and pay for missed meals or breaks during a shift.
#Healthworkers#labormovement#organize
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Peter Riley

Wanted: #GeneralStrike Songs
(Sing while you Strike, Occupy a Chorus!)
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/02/c

2025 Contest
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Labor Notes · Contest: Songs and Chants for the Strike LineMusic has special power to raise our morale in times of fear and grief. In the Pittsburgh Labor Choir we’ve learned that songs have their greatest power when everyone is participating, not just listening. When the crowd takes the responsibility for chanting, or the whole assembly sings together, we feel our collective power. We may still be grieving and scared, but we’re also filled with hope. From rhythm, to morale, to endurance—to victory. What makes a chant or song good for large-group participation? Making it consistent and predictable makes it easy for people to join in.
#frombelow#labormovement#rankandfile
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Peter Riley

@angryeducationworkers @workingclasshistory

22 Feb 2018, 20,000 #educationworkers in West Virginia walked out on a #wildcatstrike protesting against low pay and the inferior health insurance scheme.
#RankandFile teachers organised themselves in defiance of the law and their own #unions. They shut schools in all 55 counties, affecting a quarter of a million students.

March 6 2028 teachers and other state employees got a 5% pay rise.

#labormovement#directaction#solidarity
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