Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #STRIKE

Most recents (24)

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/06/tha…

#Pluralistic

1/ A mirrored office tower bea...
Today 6/6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for @rightscon:

eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

Wed 7/6, I'm keynoting @republica in #Berlin:

re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

Thu 8/6, I'm at @otherlandberlin Books with my novel *Red Team Blues*:

otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

2/
A business model for bankrupting the oil companies: Incentives matter (and that matters).



3/  Image:  Flying Logos (modi...
Read 23 tweets
AS NATIONAL TALKS RESUME, UPS TEAMSTERS READY FOR STRIKE VOTE

Subcommittees to the @UPS #Teamsters Nat'l Negotiating Committee, including Safety & Health and Premium Services, got back to the table in full force today as national talks with UPS resumed in Alexandria, VA. (1/12) Image
The teams, working across the table from @UPS negotiators, adjusted and improved contract language to help reach tentative agreement on nearly 10 articles before the end of the day. (2/12)
Simultaneously, the #Teamsters’ national committee announced that #strike authorization votes among UPS members will start being conducted by local unions in-person and nationwide beginning this week. (3/12) Image
Read 12 tweets
TFORCE STRIKE VOTE TO BEGIN IN-PERSON

Thousands of Freight #Teamsters at TForce will be able to begin voting for strike authorization starting this week. Image
The TForce National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee urges all members at the company to vote YES to authorize a #strike — to only be called in the event TForce does not reach agreement with the Teamsters.
Strike authorization balloting will be done in-person outside of TForce barns or at local union halls. Results will be announced on Friday, June 16.

“Our members’ voices need to be heard at TForce," said John A. Murphy, #Teamsters National Freight Director.
Read 6 tweets
🚨UPS STRIKE VOTES START THIS WEEK 🚨

Local unions representing @UPS #Teamsters will begin conducting in-person voting this week for strike authorization. #1u Image
Voting YES will enable the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee to call a nationwide strike at UPS should the company fail to reach agreement on a strong new contract for more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters.
Strike authorization votes will be recorded in-person at local union halls and at the gates of UPS facilities.

Results will be announced Friday, June 16.
Read 7 tweets
I am on strike from work.

It is my first time being on strike and my second day. I am one of over 100k public servants in Canada currently on the picket lines. Like seemingly everything in today's society, people have polarized opinions about this. /1
On one hand, you have the socially-minded labour supporting crowd. There is a "rally around workers" effect, often from other workers who realize they could be next or simply recognizing a big labour negotiation like this one will set the benchmark for them in the future. /2
On the other hand, there are the more individualist type or people who are frustrated by the interruption to their lives. Some may have lower salaries and benefits than me and my colleagues and wonder why we should get more. /3
Read 16 tweets
Any Attempt To Restrain Lawyers From Appearing Before Court Will Lead To Prosecution For Wrongful Restraint: Madhya Pradesh High Court Initiates Contempt Case Against State Bar Council #Strike livelaw.in/news-updates/m…
Any attempt by any person in restraining a counsel to appear before the Court shall also render them liable to be tried for an offence under Section 341 of IPC: Justice Atul Sreedharan
The strike called by the Chairman and the elected members of the State Bar Council is in brazen defiance of the order passed by the Division Bench hich inter alia required lawyers to resume their work: High Court #MadhyaPradesh
Read 4 tweets
Mar. 1:
1/ Many #Russian #Warships in #BlackSea

#Crimea report:
New #Russian #Missile #Attack could be #Pinpoint or in #Multiple waves

This was announced by the head of the #Joint ..continued

2/
#UkraineRussiaWar #Warships #Ukraine .@oleksiireznikov
t.me/Crimeanwind/23…
Mar. 1:
2/ Many #Russian #Warships in #BlackSea

..#JointCoordinatingPressCenter of the #DefenseForces of the #South of #Ukraine, #NataliaHumenyuk on the air of the telethon.

According to her, the #Russian..continued

3/
#UkraineRussiaWar #Ships #Ukraine
t.me/Crimeanwind/23…
Mar. 1:
3/ Many #Russian #Warships in #BlackSea

.#Russian #Ship #Grouping on #CombatDuty in the #BlackSea continues to be unchanged.

“These are 15 #Russian #Ships, among which there are 5 #Missile #Carriers..continued

4/
#UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine #War
t.me/Crimeanwind/23…
Read 10 tweets
→ Why BIG decisions need BIG support – share 2-minute video

𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝗔 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧

Big decisions need big support. That’s surely something we’ve learnt following the fiasco of #Brexit that most of the electorate never supported.
Let’s look at it this way.

Say you’re the boss of a company with 100 employees. You let the staff vote on whether the firm should move to a new location.

▪ 37 staff voted yes,
▪ 35 staff voted no,
▪ 28 didn’t vote (many staff weren’t sure)
𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟯𝟳 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟬𝟬? 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿.
Read 14 tweets
What happens when you give a group of Luddites the ability to say “No”? Well, @DoombergT answers.

Q: Why is nuclear energy messed up in the US?
A: The NRC, but if you dig deeper you find their regulatory warrant comes from LNT (no safe dose), the keystone for their bad policy twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The reason why I left the nuclear industry is because I didn’t want to deal with the battered wife syndrome that the nuclear industry has due to the NRC. There is a strong desire to change, but there is a fear of artificial dependence. The best way to deal with it, leave.
Yes, I have PhD in nuclear engineering and in 2018 had just invented what was to become Natrium. I chose not to publish, patent, or promote my creation. This was not a decision I took lightly.

How it began:
www2.me.gatech.edu/theses/summary…
What is now:
natriumpower.com
Read 9 tweets
Millions of workers in #France join third mass #protest against pension cuts #Macron | -28min
- over 400,000 people marched in #Paris and a total of 2 million protested nationwide, while millions more went on #strike and stayed at home.
wsws.org/en/articles/20…
#Macron #pension. #Protesters in #Paris marched peacefully with a very heavy police presence | Feb 7
- Tens of 1000s marched in the cities of #Nice, #Marseille, #Toulouse, #Nantes - against the pension bill that would raise the min retirement from 62 to 64
f24.my/9Ef5.T
#Protests in #France continue against #pension reform | Feb 7
- Public transport, schools and refinery supplies were disrupted in France on Tuesday as trade unions led a third wave of nationwide #strikes a day after pension reform legislation
Read 8 tweets
#Firefighters to go on #strike across the #UK after union members vote for action | 1h ago
- More than 80% of members who voted backed strike action across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when they were balloted last month.
yorkpress.co.uk/news/23287075.…
#UK #Teachers set to #strike after pay #talks with #Tory ministers collapse | Jan 30
- Despite years of falling take-home pay, the government offered most teachers just 5 per cent for 2022-23 — about half the rate of 40-year-high double-digit #inflation.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/teac…
Tiny #Britain is sinking.
Who will be on strike on walkout Wednesday? | Jan 30
- 100s of 1000s of workers will go on #strike on Wednesday in separate disputes over pay, jobs and conditions - the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade.
kentonline.co.uk/news/national/…
Read 26 tweets
#THREAD

A #strike is a withdrawal of labour by a worker, often under the instruction of a trade union.

Strikes have been happening since the workers at the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina in Egypt organised an uprising in 1152 BC over late wages.

worldhistory.org/article/1089/t…
British industrial action has a much shorter, but turbulent, history. There were withdrawals of labour in the medieval & early modern periods, although these were organised by small groups of craft workers in contravention of legislation such as the Statute of Artificers (1563).
Between 1696-1720s, the Journeymen of Feltmakers negotiated with employers & occasionally called strikes. London tailors did much the same from the 1720s, but the Combination Acts prevented workers combining in a trade union, prohibited such action, & wages were fixed by statute.
Read 15 tweets
מחאת המשאיות 🚛🚚 - מה קורה בממלכת #ירדן? 🇯🇴⛽
מה הסיפור ואיך הכל התחיל?
לאחרונה, עלו מחירי הדלק במדינה.
בשנת 2012 היו שתי העלאות במחירי ה #דלק. ההעלאה השנייה (10%) שהייתה אמורה להעלות את המחיר לליטר לדינר (כ1.4$ בזמנו) הוציאה את הירדנים לרחובות וכמעט והופלה הממשלה. >>
ב2012 ההחלטה הושעתה ע"י המלך והסערה שקטה, לבינתיים.
באמצע דצמבר 2022 שוב התקבלה החלטה להעלאת מחירי הדלק אלא שהפעם מחיר הדלק הוא כבר 5 דינר לליטר מאחר וירדן כבר אינה מסוגלת לסבסד את הדלק. מסיבה זו, המלך #עבדאללה השני לא יכול לעצור את ההעלאה במחי החלטה כמו בפעם הקודמת. >>
עם משכורת ממוצעת של הרבה פחות מ2000 ש''ח העלאה כזאת היא בלתי אפשרית עבור הירדני הפשוט.
נהגי המשאיות, הנפגעים הראשונים מעליית המחירים, לא מסוגלים לעמוד בזה. פשוט לא משתלם להם להיכנס למשאית ולהניע.
כאן חשוב לזכור ולהזכיר ש #ירדן תלויה במשאיות כמו אוויר לנשימה.
רק שני שדות תעופה >>
Read 15 tweets
Let’s talk #strike not one person wants to strike!!! What we want is to do our jobs with fair pay, decent conditions to have enough money to pay the bills and feed our kids!!! We want recognition for the amazing job we do day in day out…. 1/
#EnoughlsEnough
Our jobs aren’t easy, we take them home in our heads and our hearts because it’s what we do!!! WE CARE!!! We just want #FairPay along with hospital staff, firefighters, rail workers, civil servants, postal workers, care workers. All those who keep this country running…,,2/
This government seem to forget that we are the ones who work for the people and those people do appreciate us even if those in power care only about their money. It’s time for action. It’s time!!! #EnoughlsEnough #FairPayOrFireStrike #FairPay4HomeCare #FairPayforNursing
Read 3 tweets
They are indoor cats so they cannot go out to attend a picket.
You will have to share their message to get them out there.

#39kIsNotEnough #EducationWorkers #strike A small orange cat grinning at the camera, lying in front ofA large orange and white cat sitting in front of a purple wa
Fitz especially is a fan of multiple education workers in particular. He is familiar with how rowdy kids can be, and gets that his worker friends need to be supported in order to do their jobs well and thrive.
They need support in this strike! #39kIsNotEnough An orange and white cat sitting in front a purple wall, with
Revan is equally strong in his love for kids! He's showing solidarity for his fave 5 year old, who needs EAs, ECEs, caretakers, and secretaries to keep his school running safely!
#EducationWorkers 💜 A small orange cat looking at the camera, lying in front of
Read 5 tweets
Allan Pinkerton was born #OTD in 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland. He headed the Union Intelligence Service during the Civil War and helped lay the foundation for the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, and CIA. He also founded the famed Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which still exists.
Pinkerton emigrated to United States 1842 and founded a cooperage in Dundee, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. He became an abolitionist and operated a safe house for fugitive enslaved people on the Underground Railroad.
Pinkerton was appointed as the first Chicago police detective in 1849 after uncovering a counterfeit scheme. He founded what would become the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. The Pinkerton Agency specialized in investigating train robberies.
Read 12 tweets
For the first time, the National News Agency (NNA) will not be publishing any news other than a single article published early Thursday morning, as its employees go on #strike to pressure for their demands.
./1
In an interview with Megaphone, NNA journalist Huda Zbeeb said that the employees are demanding an improvement of their salaries and the approval of the tenure file.
./2
She added they decided to go on #strike because "salaries are very low, and we have not received transportation allowance for 4 months," let alone the poor working conditions and equipment.
./3
Read 5 tweets
#SupremeCourt to continue hearing plea challenging 27% reservation for OBCs and 10% reservation for EWS in All India Quota (AIQ) for NEET PG Medical courses.

#NEETPG
#neetpg2021counselling
#NEETPG2021
The matter will be taken up immediately after the fresh matter.
Court to commence at 10:30 AM.

#neetpg2021counselling
#NEETPG
#NEETPG2021
Yesterday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had submitted that, "Let us go ahead with the counseling, then we can decide. The Court can then hear the matter and we'll continue."

#neetpg2021counselling
#NEETPG
#NEETPG2021

lawbeat.in/top-stories/ne…
Read 80 tweets
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 11/17/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/dai…
Rarest mammal in North America found in Colorado garage, ‘looking for a new home’

usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

#EndangeredSpecies #BlackFootedFerrets #restoration
Read 8 tweets
We stand in #Solidarity with our Workers in the #Unions & this is the only way to have a say in our Working Environment by #WorkingTogether & doing a #Strike!
People like us, who've been arguing against the broken Gears & For-profit exploitation of #Capitalism, comes in to help.
We're in a #SocietalCollapse as the Full Stop & Endgame of #Capitalism's Growth has begun! We need Calls & Movements for a "Great Transition" from this broken #Dystopia where we have a #ClimateCrisis, #HousingCrisis, #Pandemic, #EvictionCrisis, #HealthcareCrisis,...
#BiodiversityCrisis, etc.
As the system focuses on #Economic Growth, #Corporate Interest & Businesses First while exploiting the #Labor who are treated like hell & not paid a #LivingWage nor anything while everything to basically live is practically an Expense under #Capitalism.
Read 27 tweets
As someone who opposes Islamophobia, why should I vote strategically for a party that drafted a dog-whistle bill around it or that voted for it, over the NDP who didn't?

#Islamophobia #Elxn44 #cdnpoli
As someone who supports labour organizing, why would I vote strategically for a party who doesn't want to strengthen labour laws to support workers during strikes and lockouts, when the NDP does?

#canlab #strike #Elxn44
As someone who wants trade deals that are good for Canada and Canadian workers and don't contain harmful ISDs and respect our sovereignty, why would I vote strategically for any party who undermines that? #trade #cdnecon #Elxn2021
Read 17 tweets
Tweeting live from the #ichbinhanna conference organized by @AKellerGEW !
Warming up!
1/ All tweets about the GEW conference today will be here in this thread.
We're starting NOW with @AKellerGEW saying the opening remarks!

#hannabeidergew, #ichbinhanna & #dauerstellen!
Read 67 tweets
Some farmworker movement history for #CesarChavezDay: In 1955 Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee went on strike. 8 days later, the Latino National Farmworkers Association voted to join the strike (led to UFW)

The UFW strike was broad, not simply about 1 leader 🧵
Unionists like Larry Itliong & Philip Vera Cruz were socialists. They knew in order to win the strike, they had to break the bosses’ division of workers across racial groups - unite around class. Their leadership w/Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez broke decades of boss tactics #UFW
The solidarity clap that many of us use in movements today was created by the farmworkers, who spoke different languages, as a signal to stop working, walk off the fields, and STRIKE. It starts slow, then gets louder, faster, like their heartbeats, into a universal rally cry #UFW
Read 11 tweets
🇮🇱Israeli Strikes Target #Iranian Oil Bound for Syria
Campaign against ships, using mines, shows an expansion of hostilities in the Mideast.
wsj.com/articles/israe…
#Israel has targeted at least a dozen vessels bound for Syria and mostly carrying #Iranian oil out of concern that petroleum profits are funding extremism in the Middle East, 🇺🇸U.S. and regional officials say, in a new front in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
Since late 2019, Israel has used weaponry including water mines to #strike Iranian #vessels or those carrying Iranian cargo as they navigate toward Syria in the Red Sea and in other areas of the region.
Read 7 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!