They (kleptocrat corporate capital) are already beginining to remove tooling equipment from Canadian factories to send south of the border.
Time for the Canadian government to nationalize assets of companies that attempt do this and halt them.
#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Universities Reeling from Trump Cuts Fear for a ‘Lost Generation’ of Scientists
My union, the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, is on strike. I'm not really participating, since I'm on leave due to the recent birth of my second child, but even just watching from the sidelines, it's an empowering experience. The admin is going to great lengths to try to break our strike, even though our demands are really quite reasonable. They haven't yet even offered us a contract that's as good as the status quo before we formed the union, which says a lot. They're inventing new, questionably-legal strike breaking tactics and are using international students as pawns to try to force the strike to end.
But we've gotten so much solidarity from tenure-track faculty, staff, and especially students (who are enduring a lot of scary stuff from the admin as classes have been reduced from full to half credit if the professor is striking). It's heartwarming to see that support, and to understand that collective action really is powerful.
Of course it's more difficult on a broader scale, but collective action is also the answer against Trump. Whether that's a May Day massive protest, or the #50501 movement slowly building up steam, or corporate boycotts shifting corporate interests (which would only ever be a short term win, but I'd take that right now), I'm hopeful that something is going to break through. Is going to turn hurt and scared and angry people into a mass that dictates change, because there already are plenty of us if we act with enough coordination.
Shout out to the United Auto Workers #UAW who we're a part of. I was a member in grad school too.
Mein Wort zum Sonntag:
Ich befürchte, dass #merz #union #cdu_csu statt wie versprochen die #AfD zu halbieren, sie zu verdoppeln.
#afd_verbot_jetzt #merzKANNesNICHT
The local chapter of the Service Employees International Union has put out a call to action to support detained workers like Lewelyn Dixon.
The SEIU Union demands that the University of Washington:
– Protect detained workers’ jobs
– Provide leave for immigration proceedings
– Educate all employees on their rights
Today in Labor History March 29, 1948: Police attacked striking members of the United Financial Employees’ Union and arrested forty-three in the “Battle of Wall Street.” This was the first and only strike in the history of the New York or American Stock Exchanges.
This boils my blood. I don't know the US labour history, but I do know how hard public sector workers in Canada and Alberta had to fight to gain collective bargaining rights, which they were not allowed because they were "civil servants".
All public worker strikes were wildcat strikes and illegal until 1967 when Federal workers gained the right to collective bargaining through the Public Service Staff Relations Act which took 2 years to pass through Parliament after the wildcat Postal Workers Strike of 1965.
Federal government employees responded by joining unions in record numbers.
Public sector workers in Alberta did not gain these rights until 2016, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that ALL Canadian workers have the fundamental right to strike, essential to even the playing field between workers and employers.
That hasn't even been 10 years ago, that our Provincial healthcare workers, education workers, social workers, wildlife workers, custodial workers, and many more have had access to such basic fundamental rights to legal collective job action! You may not have realized that all these strikes you are seeing now are history in the making!
We are living out a struggle for the right of the working-class to SURVIVE.
It breaks my heart to see our fallen comrades losing this fight with such desperation to the south, and makes me fearful of the coming storm we will have to face in Canada as our populist shadow government pushes to put us down in Canada.
Postal employees rally against #DOGE: "It’s about rich versus poor. Who built this country? It wasn’t people in suits. It was people in coveralls."
https://www.labornotes.org/2025/03/postal-workers-throng-500-rallies-save-postal-service
Whoa, yesterday, #Trump illegally stripped #CollectiveBargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers in 18 different departments across multiple #FederalAgencies.
The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *#war* on President Trump’s agenda.”
Is he going to use #wartime powers against #union members now?
#law #LaborLaw #labor #Musk #DOGE #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #propaganda #Trumpaganda #gaslighting #NaziState #MafiaState
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-exempts-agencies-with-national-security-missions-from-federal-collective-bargaining-requirements/
Solidarity with my public sector #union siblings facing incredible pressure in this environment.
Today in Labor History: March 28, 1968: Martin Luther King led a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Police attacked the workers with mace and sticks. A 16-year old boy was shot. 280 workers were arrested. He was assassinated a few days later after speaking to the striking workers. The sanitation workers were mostly black. They worked for starvation wages under plantation like conditions, generally under racist white bosses. Workers could be fired for being one minute late or for talking back, and they got no breaks. Organizing escalated in the early 1960s and reached its peak in February, 1968, when two workers were crushed to death in the back of a garbage truck.
#meloni sollte man im Auge behalten, ich traue ihr keinen Meter über den Weg.
In #italien versucht Sie eher die #demokratie zu demontieren. Aber vielleicht deshalb findet #union #cdu_csu sie so toll 
ntv mobil: Meloni stärkt Trump bei Kritik an Europa den Rücken https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Meloni-staerkt-Trump-bei-Kritik-an-Europa-den-Ruecken-article25663131.html
#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava DOGE has a dodgy plot to gut Social Security and please billionaires
Musk says US$1 trillion in US spending cuts possible without touching services
The policy violation the students are accused of is, shall we say, interpretive. And the supposed infraction went down 4 months ago. So there is a 100% chance that the institution’s administration is sending the federal administration the fast food equivalent of fruit baskets so they no longer have to worry about all that pesky academic freedom bullshit. #Union #Fascism #AdjunctLife
#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Farmers cast their votes for Trump. Now Musk’s cuts are hitting them.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0213/elon-musk-trump-voters
Trump’s and Musk’s Disgusting Response to California Fires
https://newrepublic.com/post/190004/trump-musks-disgusting-response-california-fires
Union und SPD planen den Generalangriff auf den Datenschutz: Bürgerkonto-Pflicht, Altersverifikation, verpflichtende ePA, massiver behördlicher Datenaustausch – dazu ein Opt-out-Prinzip, das faktisch jeden zur gläsernen Person macht. Wer profitiert? Wirtschaft, Militär, Forschung. Wer verliert? Unsere Grundrechte. Unfassbar!
There's a playbook to how fascists work - they target groups that the majority doesn't care about or actively fears/despises (as a result of hegemonic training).
UC Access Now and disabled workers' experiences with UAW bore this out - when it came to attacks on disabled workers, most abled workers were fine with it or even agreed with ableist management.
Deserting disabled people as a sop to the powerful only shows them how easily you cave & they expand the tactics to abled people eventually.
Dismantle your own ableism now before fascists dismantle you.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/27/us-disability-rights-trump #Fascism #Ableism #Capitalism #Union #Labor #HigherEd
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mit allen Tassen! 
