Next was a rousing talk by Annelise Orleck the history of labor's fight against poverty wages and unsafe working conditions and the modern, global efforts to preserve and extend those gains at the Cornell University ILR School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4W6HPUnFo (7/11) #labor #history
https://pca.st/podcast/35903350-25b7-013a-d5f9-0acc26574db2
If you're in #Macnmara, the seat is pretty close to tipping green despite the gigantic cash injection to make gigantic hideous #LNP billboards everywhere.
Do your bit and help dunk them in the green paint. Remember it has to be #Greens 1 as #Labor would rather ensure the #duopoly keeps going than side with the #progressives with which they previously shared similar values.
Hammering Man in Basel, Switzerland
This 42-foot tribute to the workforce still reminds us to pause and recharge.#labor #artoutside #art #publicart #sculptures #section-Atlas
Hammering Man
George #Rawick’s warning in 1964 about the threat of rising #authoritarianism seems prescient in that is presaged our current fascist era that began with #Reagan and continues through #Trump.
“But one thing remains certain — that if the Negro struggle is defeated — it will be defeated in the midst of a general reactionary development in the #UnitedStates. To stop this the Negro struggle must become even more radical in its demands, its form of organization, and its actions. For unless the Negro working class, the one active progressive force at present in American society, goes forward, all of American Society will continue to slide towards barbarism, towards an increasingly authoritarian solution to the crisis of #capitalism. Those purported left-liberal friends of the Negro … who counsel the Negro movement to develop ‘a careful strategy’ … offer advice which if adopted will prove disastrous to both black and white working class people.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis has a solution for Florida's labor shortage: softer child-labor laws.
From @WSJ (gift link): https://flip.it/V-CDDi
Nach einer Pause zu Ostern liefert #AVM jetzt wieder ein neues #Labor-#Update für drei seiner #Router aus. Die #FritzBox 6591 Cable sowie die #FritzBox7590 und ihre AX-Variante erhalten neue Beta-#Firmware. https://winfuture.de/news,150525.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
Iran’s exiled ‘crown prince’ calls for mass labor strikes to topple regime – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/950621/ #Afghanistan #Communications #Conflict #Conflicts #Crisis #Democracy #Diplomacy #DonaldTrump #Drones #ElonMusk #Exports #GeorgeW.Bush #HumanRights #Iran #Iraq #Israel #labor #LaborRights #MiddleEast #Military #monarchy #NobelPrize #NuclearDeal #Policy #Referendum #Religion #Rights #satellites #Syria #Tanks #Technology #Ukraine #UnitedStates #VladimirPutin #WarInUkraine
Day 26 cont 
“Thirty years ago, the average #buyer looked more like the #MedianIncome earner. But over time we’ve seen that shift [to] #households that are in the top two income quintiles, so top 40 per cent of income earners, and shift from being #SingleIncome earning households to #DualIncome households,”
#AusPol / #housing / #HousingCrisis / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals / #Labor <https://archive.md/kbscP> / <https://www.theage.com.au/property/news/how-much-you-can-afford-to-spend-on-a-house-20250423-p5ltn1.html>
Day 26 cont 
“Prime Minister #AnthonyAlbanese has defended the #Labor candidate running against Peter Dutton as an “extraordinary Australian” after it emerged she tweeted faked images of the opposition leader wearing a #Nazi uniform.”
Leadership.
#AusPol / #AliFrance / #Dickson / #Labor / #PM <https://archive.md/lQ01i> / <https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-defends-labor-candidate-who-posted-dutton-nazi-meme-20250424-p5ltzq.html> (cont)
Day 26 cont
“The #HousingCrisis has dominated the #FederalElection campaign, and all sides of politics have desperately tried to #harness or #neutralise it as an #issue.
An analysis by The #AFR of nearly 25,000 data points compiled by research firm Cotality, formerly #CoreLogic, reveals how the property market is playing out at an electorate-by-electorate level, and what this means for #voters – both at the #election on May 3 and into the future”
#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals / #Labor / #Housing <https://archive.md/g5TZJ> / <https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/these-5-maps-reveal-the-house-price-pain-that-could-sway-the-election-20250421-p5lt63> (paywall)
Day 26 cont 
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“Nationals leader #DavidLittleproud says one of his “proudest” moments of his #leadership has been to oppose #TheVoice to # parliament.
Speaking to the #NationalPressClub, Littleproud says it wasn’t a decision that was made quickly by his party room.
Within our party room, in a #respectful way we undertook a #committee within our party room to listen [to the] yes and no case, to understand what the machinery would look like, what it would mean for us who represent some of the most #disadvantaged #Indigenous #Australians in remote areas.
Littleproud says the voice would have repeated “mistakes of the past” and was not the way to empower local communities.”
A reminder Littleproud has no tertiary #education, a rarity in leadership teams in #Labor, #LNP, #Greens and #Independents.
#AusPol / #racism <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/24/australia-election-2025-live-labor-coalition-teal-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-policy-cost-of-living-voting-spender-pamphletntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6809ab7d8f08e65b05d1de6e#block-6809ab7d8f08e65b05d1de6e>
Why are we putting up with all the BS happening in #America ? Let’s shut it all down. #USA #NationalStrike #GeneralStrike #Politics #Strike #Fukital #Boycott #Consumer #Labor #Organize #Activism fook a #WatchList
Day 26 cont 
“The top reasons #voters are hesitant on #Albanese or #Dutton – and it’s worse in #MarginalSeats: An exclusive survey for this masthead, conducted by research firm #ResolveStrategic, reveals the top concerns voters have when considering either of the #MajorParties on May 3.”
#AusPol / #Labor / #LNP / #Liberals / #National / #greens / #Independents <https://archive.md/rNBDk> / <https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-top-reasons-voters-are-hesitant-on-albanese-or-dutton-and-it-s-worse-in-marginal-seats-20250418-p5lst0.html> (paywall)
Day 26 cont 
“#PeterDutton is avoiding visiting any of the seven sites for his proposed #NuclearReactors , #AnthonyAlbanese and the #Labor party claim, arguing the issue has become “radioactive” for the #Coalition.
The #Liberal leader says he is still committed to #NuclearPower, even as he concedes it may not be “politically popular”.
#AusPol / #nuclear / #NuclearPolicy / #LNP / #Nationals / #NuclearWaste <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/24/exclusion-zones-is-peter-duttons-campaign-avoiding-proposed-nuclear-power-sites>
Day 26 
“Over five decades, here’s how voters have shifted away from the major parties”
#AusPol / #Labor / #LNP / #Nationals / #Liberal / #Coalition / #Greens / #Independent <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/election-data-rise-independents-major-party-drift/105144918>
Next was an important panel on the past, present, and future of public sector labor organizing at the Cornell University ILR School with Joseph A. McCartin, Todd Dickey, Aurora Rojer, and MT Snyder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIjtRktlO_Q (3/6) #labor #US #government
I think I've started writing again:
The Disappearing of Students is a Labor Problem | Unionist
https://unionist.bearblog.dev/the-disappearing-of-students-is-a-labor-problem/
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