#wage demands

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"12,500 STEEL WORKERS OUT AT THREE PLANTS; WAR OUTPUT SUFFERS," Toronto Star. January 14, 1943. Page 1. ---- Loss Set at 170,200 Tons Monthly, Two-Thirds of Nation's Production ---- ASK WAGE BOOST ---- Three of Canada's basic steel producing plants today are tied up by strikes. A total of 12,500 men have quit work at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; Sydney and Trenton, N.S., to enforce demands for wage increases.

Five thousand workers at Sydney, N.S. - on strike for the third day - were joined early today by 4,000 at Sault Ste. Marie and 3,500 at Trenton.

Strikes at Sydney and Sault Ste. Marie tied up two of the dominion's three basic steel producing plants. It was estimated by government figures the loss in production at the two plants would amount to; 170,212 tons a month, or two-thirds of the country's basic steel output.

Workers at the Steel Company of Canada at Hamilton have decided to defer strike action until the company management has been approached regarding negotiations with the United Steelworkers of America (C.I.O.).

Picket Lines Set Up The strike at the Sault began officially at 7 a.m. when members of the day shift didn't report. Picket lines were set up.

The strikers were not joined by 500 transportation department employees and machinists, members of American Federation of Labor unions. These entered the plant to work today and were not interfered with by pickets. An additional 500 men engaged on construction work were not direly affected by the strike, it was reported.

It was announced that 300 men had been left in the plant to do maintenance work. No effort was made to stop those who wished to continue their regular work in the plant, but as buses neared the picket lines, a union representative boarded each and read the following statement: "This bus after its next stop will go through a picket line - any working man going through that line to work is undermining the fight of his fellow-workers for decent living standards. Let your conscience be your guide."

[blakbonnet]

he's so pretty 😌 [x]

[ahaura]

from @/JoshuaPHilll, via More Perfect Union

[novathesheltie]

such a difficult life

[rabbiteclair]

a while back my mom discovered that the owner of the company was stealing basically all of the money that he was supposed to submit for things like 'taxes' and 'health insurance' and 'court-mandated payments' for the employees, listing them on the pay stubs but then pocketing the money to help keep the company afloat

she then made sure that everybody in the company knew, submitted her resignation effective immediately, and spent about the next week calling government offices to report every crime, regulatory violation, and breach of employment contract that she could think of. and now it looks like the series of investigations that she kicked off might be the thing that finally destroys this man's company.

sometimes I'm proud of her

[cruyffista]

him having adhd makes so much sense actually....

[leolingo]

they should invent a college major that doesnt involve doing things

[siderealsandman]

Time to find names for my new Tau pilots

[slonechnik]

literally cant any other language be so in demand in this country i thought itll be over like back in fucking 2017 whywhywhy

[athetos]

I know there’s at least 2 other ppl interviewing for this position so I’m not getting my hopes up however I’m still going to give my best tomorrow 😤

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Early in the 1840s contractors learned they would not have a free hand in hiring from among the labourers who congregated around construction sites. To a considerable extent, the labour force would be shaped by the factional, ethno-racial, and religious loyalties of the labourers themselves. In the 1840s, the feud of Cork and Connaught became the primary vehicle in a conflict for work which stretched along the entire St Lawrence system in skirmishes and running battles which spilled over from one project to another; for example, Connaughtmen drove Corkmen from the Cornwall, and Corkmen retaliated by driving Connaughtmen from the Queenston-Grimsby Road works; on larger projects one faction took over the work under one contractor, and the displaced faction moved to take jobs on another contractor's section. Representatives of the Board of Works, contrac +tors, and local magistrates came to see the feud as primarily a fight over work, going so far as to argue that "[t]he sole object" of the combinations of labourers in factions - Cork and Connaught and the sub- divisions of Leinster and Roscommon and Mayo and Sligo - was to secure employment. In this the feud was a direct attack on the powers of the board and contractors to control the labour force and workplace. Contractors could only take back control if unemployment was lowered dramatically, leaving no reason to fight, or if surplus labourers were forced to move on, leaving no one to fight. The Connaughtmen made the argument most succinctly during a meeting with goverment officials and James Buchanan, a respected member of the Irish community and ex-consul at New York: "[G]ive us work to earn a living, we cannot starve, the Corkmen have all the work, give us a shar of it." Studies of feuding have likened it to the labourers version of the closed shop, the means by which to restrict access to work, and to a primitive syndicalist organization." But it was the form without the consciousness and, in this respect, part of the process of fragmentation in which subgroups fought for advantage in the labour market and workplace. The waning of the feud at mid-century meant it was less visible and divisive on construction sites in the 1850s, though it still figured in reported conflict on private railways in the Canadas and the United States at the beginning of the decade."

The struggle to secure work could transcend factional divisions and become all about being Irish. United demonstrations of Irish labourers were appeals to government and community leaders to do some thing to alleviate hardship among the unemployed. In the summer of 1842, as work commenced on the Welland improvements, the thousands of labourers congregated in the area sent an ominous message of unity to contractors and the board: labourers and their families repeatedly paraded the streets of St Catharines with a red flag and placards demanding "Bread or Work"; patrolling bands ensured that none broke ranks and took the few jobs available; posters threatened "death and vengeance to any who should dare to work until employment was given to the whole"; and a petition to the people of Upper Canada warned, "we all Irishmen; employment or devastation." As increasing numbers of jobs opened up, this impressive show of unity cracked, and hunger pressed labourers onto the works. A similar show of unity the following summer was also short lived. With a major section drawing to a close, the three thousand men thrown out of work many with families, were joined by hundreds still arriving in the area. Power warned the Board of Works that he was surrounded by men "infuriated by hunger," and any delay in commencing new sections of the work would "drive them to despair."" Such collective demonstrations were part of a long tradition of both peaceful and violent protests in which participants demanded food, took control of foodstuffs to ensure their distribution at fair prices, and in some instances ran food into or out of an area. Still very much alive in Europe, these pro sacked mills and stores and attacked wagons and ships transporting tests escalated and became particularly aggressive in the mid-1840s during the early stage of the famine in Ireland, when supplies were still moving in sufficient quantity to be worth the effort."

- Ruth Bleasdale, Rough Work: Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1841–1882. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. p. 219-220

[taihua]

Soren Fire Emblem is a good character for many reasons and this includes the fact that he's the overworked organizer and braincell holder without whomst the party would probably have died of something stupid and preventable. Many such characters get the "he deserves a raise" commentary from fandom but Soren is self aware enough to say out loud "I deserve a raise" <3 rip buddy you would have loved workers unions

[boeing747]

fuck me im so bored. just finished 5 hours of work. Two and a half hours left of work. and then i will go home and do more work. then i will sleep. then tomorrow I will do more work from 8 am to 8pm. potentially more work on friday evening depending on how productive i can be this evening. saturday will probably be fine ^_^ going to hang out with my friends. Sunday I will do tutoring (barely work) and then preparation for the upcoming week of classes which is definitely work. then another really fun 12 hour workday on monday and tuesday and wensday andummmmmmmmmmmmmmm what if we all stood in a circle and got willingly but non-fatally run over by a volkswagen beetle

[angryisokay]

maybe you're in an industry with a group of "old school" workers who love to talk shit about how they suffered without whining about it and never had anything handed to them. they're super tough guys, don't fuck with me types, i know more than you ever will and i'm going to treat you like shit then act like i'm just screwing around types. you know them, i know them, we've all encountered them.

if you're still intimidated by these types, pay a *little* more attention to them.

because odds are they are the whiniest, cry about everything, category 5 tantrum throwing motherfucker you will ever encounter. and they'll spend a week out of work after throwing their back out with a fart.

[clochanamarch]

me googling how to get those 9-to-5 jobs in offices so i can have the 5-to-9 ✨unwind✨ girlie era:

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

god. sometimes i really hate those "10 jobs that you can do WITHOUT a qualification that pay over 100k" and they list something like "human resource management" 130k a year!!! when like. EVERY fucking HR job (and other jobs like this, say like librarian- something that i PAID 17k for and burnt out for in postgrad lmao) strictly DEMAND that candidates must have 1-2 years experience AND an HR DEGREE.

very, very, very, very rarely i see something in HR requiring a TAFE (aussie technical college) certificate (ie MUCH cheaper- 7k) or a diploma in HR. it's almost always a degree, barely EVER "no quals or equivalent experience or similar quals"... even for entry level jobs in hr or most defs management positions.