Cannes Film Festival, which begins on May 14, may see its first strike since 1968. Freelance festival workers from a labour group called Sous les écrans, la dèche (Broke behind the screens) want to raise awareness of the growing instability of the film industry in France. The group includes around 200 projectionists, programmers, PR representatives, and ticketing and guest relations workers, most of whom also work at other festivals across France. Here's more from Euronews.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Apr 19, 2024
"...THE FOUR QUESTIONS
An 1887 edition of the Arbeter Fraynd– a socialist paper published in London– reworked the Four Questions ("Why is this night different than all other nights?"– which is actually one question and four answers...
Their edition read as one might expect a poor laborer to say:
Ma nishtane, why are we different from Shmuel the manufacturer, from Meyer the banker, from Zorach the money lender, from Reb Todros the rabbi? They don’t do anything and they have food and drink during the day and also at night at least a hundred times over, we toil with all our strength the whole day and at night we have nothing to eat at all..."
Living wages, workers rights, glaring inequality, and class warfare are nothing new, but in today's economy they are urgent issues. Predatory capitalism is a tyrant we must escape from.
"Labor #unions do many things, but the most important thing is bring workers together into a collective project. The work of a union is to build #solidarity among its members and to expand that solidarity into the rest of the workplace, then ultimately, globally throughout the entirety of the #WorkingClass. Like all great athletic feats, the creation of an international #LaborMovement requires lots of boring exercise."
"The latest email [a return to office warning] from #Amazon reportedly angered some employees: 'Is this supposed to scare people?' one employee wrote on an internal chat shared with Insider.
#WorkersRights groups say pushing employees back to the office against their will stands only to strengthen the growing #LaborMovement in the tech space." #BigTech
"Biden will be out of power in a few years, but a #LaborMovement with 10 million new #union members would transform the entire American political landscape for decades to come."
"#Unions do not have to endorse the #BidenAgenda. Unions can set the agenda. Now is not the time to settle. Now is the time to demand. The #LaborMarket is strong, the appetite for unions is high and the discontent with #inequality is everywhere. This is a time to push the president, not bow and scrape and thank him for what he has done. Working people are begging to become a part of a strong #labormovement"
"It is the job of the #LaborMovement’s institutions to turn that enthusiasm into the maximum possible gain. That’s where the malfunction is. We have an army ready to fight the #ClassWar led by generals who have been trained to assume that it is unwinnable."
"UPS was sending us to die for their profits without batting an eye. I also had family members that caught covid and passed away. In spring of 2021 suffering from burnout and depression I suffered from heat exhaustion that put me on disability for two months. That was my experience during the pandemic. One good thing to come out of it was our solidarity and new found militancy to fight the bosses after that incredibly abusive time period."
"Workers at three Peet’s Coffee locations in Berkeley and Oakland have started a union drive.
The workers, who are hoping to join the Industrial Workers of the World IU 460, filed three petitions for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday."