#part of the union

[pepperf]

Thinking about strikes and unions lately reminded me of this favourite from my childhood, Part Of The Union by the Strawbs. It's a good, solid, stompy, socialist folk song.

[mortuarybees]

same people crying about ups drivers winning $42/hour are the same people who dismiss unions and say they just take your money and don't do anything for you. Bet you'd like $42/hour!!!!!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hello Madam. Sorry Madam.

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[luxmoogle]

𝔗𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔞 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔯𝔬𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔦𝔠𝔢 ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ℜ𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 ✩₊

[ravensvalley]

#HighPerch

Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

@BenAdrienProulx September 12, 2024.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Union χ - Dwarf Woodlands

[megamindfandombookclub]

On BlueSky social, Both Brett Simons (one of Megamind's writers) and @neil-gaiman (cause he's one of my favorites and I love him.) responded to my questions about how things were with the strike finally nearing completion with better pay and protections for the writers.

This is what they said.

How can you help?

Now negotiations are still being made and as of this moment, the contracts are not signed, but you can help them by donating to the causes, and/or spreading the word!

Solidarity friends!

[tweedfrog]

Don't have much to say about this ep except to share this important message

[goldensunset]

O you, who at the world's far-off end dwell,

I know your wish- it is my wish as well.

[rose-madder-gaze]

So near the end It may as well be done, So far from you I may as well be gone.

[somegrumpynerd]

can you make more drawings of your Dadmare AU please?🥺

I really do love the found family concept so much

Y'know what anon? I can and I will and I have, we're so back!!

Part of the joy of parenthood is finding socks in places they shouldn't be (and knowing that all of your children are liars)

[palms-upturned]

For US unions like the UAW — which has thousands of members in weapons factories making the bombs, missiles, and aircraft used by Israel, as well in university departments doing research linked to the Israeli military — the Palestinian trade union call to action is particularly relevant. When the UAW’s national leadership came out in support of a cease-fire on December 1, they also voted to establish a “Divestment and Just Transition Working Group.” The stated purpose of the working group is to study the UAW’s own economic ties to Israel and explore ways to convert war-related industries to production for peaceful purposes while ensuring a just transition for weapons workers.

Members of UAW Labor for Palestine say they have started making visits to a Colt factory in Connecticut, which holds a contract to supply rifles to the Israeli military, to talk with their fellow union members about Palestine, a cease-fire, and a just transition. They want to see the union’s leadership support such organizing activity.

“If UAW leaders decided to, they could, tomorrow, form a national organizing campaign to educate and mobilize rank-and-file towards the UAW’s own ceasefire and just transition call,” UAW Labor for Palestine members said in a statement. “They could hold weapons shop town halls in every region; they could connect their small cadre of volunteer organizers — like us — to the people we are so keen to organize with; they could even send some of their staff to help with this work.”

On January 21, the membership of UAW Local 551, which represents 4,600 autoworkers at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant (who were part of last year’s historic stand-up strike) endorsed the Palestinian trade unions’ call to not cooperate in the production and transportation of arms for Israel. Ten days later, UAW Locals 2865 and 5810, representing around forty-seven thousand academic workers at the University of California, passed a measure urging the union’s national leaders to ensure that the envisioned Divestment and Just Transition Working Group “has the needed resources to execute its mission, and that Palestinian, Arab and Muslim workers whose communities are disproportionately affected by U.S.-backed wars are well-represented on the committee.”

Members of UAW Locals 2865 and 5810 at UC Santa Cruz’s Astronomy Department have pledged to withhold any labor that supports militarism and to refuse research collaboration with military institutions and arms companies. In December, unionized academic workers from multiple universities formed Researchers Against War (RAW) to expose and cut ties between their research and warfare, and to organize in their labs and departments for more transparency about where the funding for their work comes from and more control over what their labor is used for. RAW, which was formed after a series of discussions by union members first convened by US Labor Against Racism and War last fall, hosted a national teach-in and planning meeting on February 12.

Meanwhile, public sector workers in New York City have begun their own campaign to divest their pension money from Israel. On January 25, rank-and-file members of AFSCME District Council (DC) 37 launched a petition calling on the New York City Employees’ Retirement System to divest the $115 million it holds in Israeli securities. The investments include $30 million in bonds that directly fund the Israeli military and its activities. “As rank-and-file members of DC 37 who contribute to and benefit from the New York City Employees’ Retirement System and care about the lives of working people everywhere, we refuse to support the Israeli government and the corporations that extract profit from the killing of innocent civilians,” the petition states.

In an election year when President Joe Biden and other Democratic candidates will depend heavily on organized labor for donations and especially get-out-the-vote efforts, rank and filers are also trying to push their unions to exert leverage on the president by getting him to firmly stand against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. NEA members with Educators for Palestine are calling on their union’s leaders to withdraw their support for Biden’s reelection campaign until he stops “sending military funding, equipment, and intelligence to Israel,” marching from AFT headquarters to NEA headquarters in Washington, DC on February 10 to assert their demand. Similarly, after the UAW International Executive Board endorsed Biden last month — a decision that sparked intense division within the union — UAW Labor for Palestine is demanding the endorsement be revoked “until [Biden] calls for a permanent ceasefire and stops sending weapons to Israel.”

[fister420]

THE GUNDAM JOKE CAME FULL CIRCLE

[bealzebubs-blog]

I know I'm late to the whole miku around the world trend but have trad goth Brit miku.

[luxmoogle]

⋆｡°⭒✩･:*:｡ Swirls of sinister smoke, there one minute, then gone ~ ༘ ⋆ .ೃ࿔*:･

[ravensvalley]

#RedFox

Canadian Red Fox at dawn walking the Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

@BenAdrienProulx October 14th, 2024.