#labour movement

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

[wellingtonskeleton]

This weekend is Labour Weekend in Aotearoa

We celebrate it at the end of October to remember Samuel Duncan Parnell winning the eight-hour working day in New Zealand, a right he had fought for as a carpenter at Petone in early 1840 through a strike.

You can read more about him here, or learn about him through song, as immortalised by the Wellington Sea Shanty Society.

[hellhoundacy]

Working an unpaid internship is confusing the fuck out of my moral code because on one side the work I do is really fun and rewarding, and I generally like helping people with their work but on the other hand I’m doing hard physical Labour and should be payed accordingly for it but on the other other hand money is the engine of social death and I wish to never become part of the capitalist death machine

[neighbourhood-threat-official]

To Trotskyists

What measures could/should be taken to prevent bureaucratisation in a hypothetical socialist state (or the degeneration of the worker state) or to reverse it? Trotsky might have written about this, if this is the case, please pont me to the corresponding texts; I am not very well acquainted with Trotskyist theory as of yet.

[bossymarmalade]

poster by ricardo levins morales

[danzigmcfly]

[rikaklassen]

Peru – Lima High Court declares COVID-19 an occupational disease for all workers

Peru – Lima High Court declares COVID-19 an occupational disease for all workers

The court’s rationale is that COVID-19 can be considered an occupational disease because it can be transmitted orally among individuals, including in the workplace. The court cited international instruments such as the ILO conventions and recommendations that support classifying COVID-19 as an occupational disease. The court emphasized that immediate exposure to the disease at the workplace or during work-related activities is sufficient to qualify it as an occupational disease. The court further held that there is no legal or conventional basis to restrict the classification of COVID-19 as an occupational disease to healthcare workers, as high rates of contagion through oral transmission make it clear that the disease can be associated with workplace exposure. The court also deemed it discriminatory and unconstitutional that Law No. 31025 considered COVID-19 as an occupational disease for healthcare workers only, as the risk of contagion extends to all types of workers, violating the principle of equality and non-discrimination established in the Peruvian Constitution. Consequently, the court orders the defendant company to pay 200,000 soles in compensation for moral and personal damages to the worker’s estate.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Time to get the labour unions to back this court decision internationally, not just Peru, and bring about a clean air revolution. If liberals and conservatives keep insist to "return to normal", then we need to update building codes, upgrade HVAC, mandate maximum CO2 limits and minimum air change rates (ACH) in every room, paid sick leaves, make respirators free for all, introduce far-ceiling UV-C lights and so on. WE CAN DO THIS!