Labor Unions

Here we go...

These folks could use a union, alright.

Kinda a bad documentary, but worth a listen to (you don't actively have to watch it).

Awesome!

Check it out! Listen to it while you're doing other things 'cause it's a good one.

Video is an hour and 30 minutes long.

Good podcast series on Southern labor movement.

Video is 10 minutes and 43 seconds.

You can listen to it while you're doing other things.

Glad that the Labor Citizen (from the paper that has its article republished here) is being honest about this. I surmise that this is because the people in this particular industry are usually from the Mid-West and South? Perhaps. Maybe I'm being too cynical.

Interesting observation near the end. Worth a read. Seems there's new blood in the labor movement

Others might find this interesting.

Basically: while there's no direct proof of any nationalist chauvinism in the IWW, though the citations do mention the work Settlers as if to make note of possibly valid criticisms, it does seem that the IWW could only go so far in its revolutionary culture. It is obviously very much based in the "Anglosphere," so to speak. That being said: I'm not sure how much of the "parameters" (as the author says) is based on any sense of "Anglo" nationalism or "Anglo" anything; it may just be historically-based parameters. By that, I mean that it was the turn of the 19th century into the 20th century and, obviously, people were not going to be as far-reaching and far-thinking as we are today.

Still, it's an interesting discussion to be had and you could make this discussion with the entire communist movement, I suppose (with then attitudes on LGBTQ peoples and women and so on and so forth). I'm still going through the article, but I think that while it's a worthwhile discussion to be had, I would argue that we need to also see as these earlier movements setting up the current discourse and culture of our own movements, of a link between the movements of the First International (including Marx and Engels) and the 21st century movements.

Without these earlier movements, we would've never gotten to where we are today.

I hope I'm getting across my point.

This could very well work and it could even give an added boost to labor union efforts that aren't tied to the AFL-CIO.

Of course, the AFL-CIO, while turning more to the "left" in recent years (it was called the "AFL-CIA" because many CIA and other intelligence agents had infiltrated the offshore organizations in other countries, at the very least), is still very much a "reformist" organization in terms of politics, though it is not as "anti-communist" as it used to be (the anti-communist legislation is still there by federal law, I think). The Teamsters are known for being the "most radical" of the unions and the more independent ones. They also get the most flack.

I know people that know Teamster people and they aren't afraid to get rough and dirty when needed; I daresay they may be more "militant" than even the current IWW in some cases, though I would prefer joining the IWW despite the syndicalist bent of the organization.

For those that don't know, this resolution comes on top of a lot of labor battles and fights that have started in the 2010s and have extended even more with the onset 2020 to 2021 so I'm quite hopeful that the labor movement will be a bit stronger than they were before.

But we shall see...

Much as I hate Jacobin quite a lot of the times, they seem to be right here. And it's because of people like Joe Biden that there pretty much is no labor movement, at least not one like the earlier decades. We'll see how the events at Bessemer go, but it won't be any thanks to Joe Biden...

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