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The Union Movement In The USA Died Today

Generally very suspicious of attempts to organise a strike or anything through social media, but will be interesting to see if anything comes of this:

Suppose it is also one of those weird things where under the NLRA wildcats have more protection in the US than they do here?
 
Some useful analysis of the pre-xmas Amazon strikes here:
 
Labor Notes now have a new podcast:
 
Warehouse Workers Who Ship NYC’s Luxury Fashion Brands Are Unionizing
truthout. May 11, 2025
Minutes from the high-end boutiques of SoHo in Manhattan sits Bergen Logistics’ fulfillment facility in North Bergen, New Jersey, where workers sort, package, and ship hundreds of packages a day for luxury fashion brands including Acne Studios, Kenzo, and Phillip Lim.

The workers themselves can’t realistically afford the ornate gowns and crisp suits they ship to online shoppers. Some work two jobs just to stay afloat, and rush to keep up with unit-per-hour expectations.

Now they’re fighting for union recognition and the reinstatement of a colleague the union alleges was fired for her organizing. The workers point to the gap between word and action for high-profile brands that publicly claim to care about working conditions.
 
Nice collection of linked articles from recent and earlier US (and wider) labour history, for Labor Day: Labor Day: A Celebration of Working in America - JSTOR Daily

I've been reading these three:
ETA:
Our initial development was as anarcho-syndicalist revolutionaries who were won over to Marxism. And even then, we loved the heritage of us being anarcho-syndicalists first. We would fight at the drop of a hat, man. There was none of that book shit for us. We loved intellectual development, man, but we liked fighting more than that. That was our heritage.
 
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