Today is the 120th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The preamble to the IWW constitution says, "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common… (1/6) “There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life." (2/6)

The graduate workers at Cornell University have won their union election!! 96% of graduate workers--a total count of 1,873 to 80--at Cornell University said yes to a union with UE. (1/4)

https://twitter.com/cornell_gsu/status/1722773913698976094

The workers are fighting for comprehensive healthcare coverage and accessibility, safety and equity in their workplace, fair wages and compensation, accessible transportation and housing, and support for international workers, parents, and caregivers! (2/4)

“Declaring that both the Republican & Democratic Parties have become the champions of big business betraying the needs of the American people, 3,240 delegates founded this weekend a new American political party.” This may sound like a fantasy, but 75 years ago today... (🧵, 1/14) delegates “representing workers, farmers, professional people, veterans, and housewives from every state of the union” met in Philadelphia. The notably multiracial convention was chaired by UE General President Albert Fitzgerald. (2/14)

Today marks 150th anniversary of the founding of the Knights of Labor, the first national workers’ organization in the U.S. that sought to unite all workers around a vision of replacing monopoly capitalism with a society based on values of social solidarity. #1u 1/16 At their peak in 1886-87, the Knights of Labor claimed close to a million members (at a time when the U.S. population was between 50 and 60 million), organized in close to six thousand local assemblies. 2/16