labor – fivepercent

frettedwithgoldenfire:

pearlmaser:

maggiemerc:

I know we like to be thoughtful here on Tumblr so just a reminder that you should not read, subscribe or in general fuck with any version of the new Mic or Bustle itself. This repugnant union busting by some of the most awful men working in media.

Original tweet is here.

Jesus. This is awful.

and galaxy brains on twitter keep pointing to mic as representative of why staffrooms shouldn’t unionize..

Also Vox laid off about a dozen long-tenured employees yesterday who were vocal proponents of their own unionizing efforts, so stay away from all their affiliated sites (Vox, The Verge, SBNation, etc)

queeranarchism:

smalltownantifa:

hipstermarxist:

Greek workers, after months without pay, apply austerity cuts on their bosses car

Showed this to my brother and he went “bet they won’t have jobs after that”

THEY WEREN’T GETTING PAID FOR THEIR WORK ANYWAY!!!!!! THAT’S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT!!!

Workers in this country paid for their rights by suffering brutal beatings, crippling strikes, targeted assassinations of union leaders, and armed battles with hired-gun thugs and state militias. Unions created the middle class. They opened up our democracy.

Federal marshals, state militias, sheriff’s deputies, and at times even US Army troops, along with courts and legislative bodies, were repeatedly used to crush organized workers. Striking sugar cane workers were gunned down in Thibodaux, Louisiana, in 1887. Steel workers were shot to death in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Railroad workers were murdered in the nationwide Pullman Strike of 1894…

The Rockefellers… the Carnegies, and the Morgans – the Goldman Sachs and Walmart of their day – never gave a damn about workers. All they cared about was profit. The eight-hour workday, the minimum wage, Social Security, pensions, job safety… were achieved because hundreds of thousands of workers physically fought a system of capitalist exploitation.

Chris Hedges (Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt)