#labor relations

[irradiate-space]

saw the post and didn't comment at the time, but you know what you do with a surplus of cucumbers?

you feed your surplus cucumbers to your pigs or goats, and then you slaughter your animals when there isn't a surplus of food.

The workplace phenomenon of union labor shoving cucumbers through managers' mail slots is because of a failure to integrate the whole diversity of farming into backyard grow operations. Of course you have a surplus! You built a machine to generate organic materials and you didn't scale up your organic materials processing to match!

[travsd]

Lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

March 25, 1911 was the date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. We marked the centennial a few years ago here on Travalanche, along with the fact that there was an off-Broadway play up about it at the time. This year we have timely and terrifying reason to bring it up again. It’s not a complicated story. The place was a garment factory, located on the top three floors of a ten story…

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[racefortheironthrone]

Would you say covid is having a black plague style effect with the rise of more militant labor leadership, or are there any other factors playing a role?

Not really, no.

I think the fundamental change has been a longer-term post-Great Recession tightening of the labor market that started around 2016 and (with the exception of a brief blip during the lockdown) has continued to the present, along with even longer-term changes in public attitudes about unions and inequality.

I would argue that the changes in union leadership and the increases in strikes and organizing drives we've seen recently are essentially a lagging response to that shift in worker leverage vis-a-vis the bosses.

[emptyanddark]

"Instead of imagining a world without work that will never come to pass, we should examine the ways historical struggles posited an alternative relationship to work and liberation, where control over the labor process leads to greater control over other social processes, and where the ends of work are human enrichment rather than abstract productivity. furthermore, these struggles point toward the only vehicle for a liberation from capitalism: the composition of a militant struggling class that attacks capital in all its manifold domination, including the technological".

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller

[severianrising]

[its-not-easy-with-love-blog]

Thought I would only be able to dream about it, but then you came and gave me exactly the love I wanted.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

I was reading about the John Deere strike and they linked to this cool site compiling labor actions around the country:

[shadow27]

Only fans has "suspended" (not cancelled) its plan to ban sex workers. Former OF creators aren't buying it.