i follow the @DorotheaLange account that posts her work now collected at the Library Of Congress #USLOC; so i decided to do a little #MayDay search to see what history of the United State is hiding in plain site.
i think this is somewhere in the West Village area, close to the Meat Packing District. am going by that rounded corner, the cobblestones and trolley tracks. you could still see those tracks, back in the 1990s, if you walked just a block west from HB Studios.
TIL landlords across the country, but particularly in #NYC would post their rent hikes on May Day.
MAY DAY had a lot of meanings but back in the early 1900s, it was definitely a day to protest #MovingDay unfair #housing#rent increases against the working poor.
Happy International Workers' Day to all the hardworking individuals around the globe! Today, we celebrate the dedication, resilience, and contributions of workers everywhere. Here's to building a brighter future together! #WorkersDay#LaborDay#RockyLinux
Also worth sharing, on why "the U.S. and Canada celebrate their Labor Day in September":
"The ruling class did not want to have a very active labor force connected internationally," said Peter Linebaugh, author of The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day. "The principle of national patriotism was used against the principle of working-class unity or trade union unity."
✊ Diversity, equity & inclusion, not a checklist but an internalized culture.
✊ Concrete commitment to everyone's mental, physical and digital well-being, safety and security.
✊ Unlimited Paid Time Off policy.
✊ Flexible Fridays.
✊ Right to disconnect.
✊ Salary transparency and incentives promoting cooperation over competition.
On #workersday, I wish all the workers in the world the right to be treated by their employers like @torproject treats its people.
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I know, I know, it's weird when the worst people you know are right, even when they're right for the wrong reasons: like, the "Intelligence Community" is genuinely terrible, pharma companies are murderous crooks, and Big Tech really does have a dangerous grip on public debate. The swivel-eyed loons have a point, is what I'm saying:
#LaborDay commemorates the victory of the long, hard-fought Pullman strike, where Black workers brought one of the most powerful companies in America to its knees:
And women have always fought for gender justice through the labor movement: the New York shirtwaist strike is the Ur-example, when women-led unions fought thugs and scabs on icy New York streets:
USA #NYC#NYPD#Drones#Surveillance#Privacy#LaborDay: "In a statement to the Guardian, Daniel Schwarz, the senior privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, said: “Deploying surveillance drones over New Yorkers gathering with their friends and families to celebrate J’ouvert is racialized discrimination and it doesn’t make us safer.”
Schwarz also accused police of “playing fast and loose” with New Yorkers’ constitutional rights to due process and to freely hold peaceful gatherings. He added that the drone ploy was also antithetical to the 2021 Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, which requires New York police to publish impact and use policies on its surveillance technologies.
“As the NYPD keeps deploying these dystopian technologies, we must push for stricter guardrails – especially given the department’s lengthy history of surveilling and policing Black and brown communities,” he continued.
Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, called the decision a “terrible plan that should never have gotten off the ground”.
“We see that there’s a real pattern with the NYPD and with Eric Adams (the New York City mayor) – whenever there’s a risk of bad headlines, they’ll turn to the next technology gimmick,” Cahn told the Guardian."
Wishing a belated happy #LaborDay to all the #Amazon warehouse employees who are working to fulfill all of the 1-click orders I place because #adhd makes it implausible for me to otherwise accomplish basic shopping errands.
"Labor actions that boost workers’ ability to bargain collectively are the only path that has ever led to broadly shared prosperity. What is equally clear from history, however, is that the desire of workers alone has never been sufficient to overcome employers’ resistance to unions. Workers’ efforts need to be supported by strong policy measures that re-level the playing field between workers and employers."
Today in Labor History September 5, 1882: The first American Labor Day was observed, with 30,000 workers marching in New York City. The event was connected to a meeting of the radical Knights of Labor. Oregon became the first state to officially recognize the holiday. Over the years, more an more states recognized the holiday. However, by 1886, workers from around the world were celebrating May 1st as International Workers’ Day, in honor of the American anarchists who were wrongly convicted and executed for the Haymarket Affair. Fearing that the May 1st holiday would strengthen anarchist and communist movements, President Cleveland pushed for federal recognition of the September holiday. And in 1894, Congress passed a bill making it an official federal holiday.
Food laborers, caretakers, people who clean up our messes. I think it’s a good thing to think of ways to pay these people more for their work. I think the greater thing would be to think about how we can make a society, or even just a social group, that elevates and values the labor of “Essential” people, and questions the worth of the kind of people that use their wealth and power to trumpet their “worth” to society 24/7. The world could probably do with fewer investment bankers.
So that’s my thought this #LaborDay. Mention, notice, and thank the people in your life that labor to make your life and the life of the people you love possible. Question why those people are paid so little in a society that equates compensation with personal worth. Challenge whether we should continue to do that.
"Labor" has no etymology. It comes from Latin "labor", meaning "labor". There’s the Archaic Latin form "labos". But it cannot be traced any further. #LaborDay
I would hope that #DukeEnergy has changed its ways in the last 50 years, but they're still taking a PR beating every time people see #HarlanCountyUSA . #Duke's practices back then were utterly inhuman.
Happy Labor Day to all who contribute to the world, whether you're paid in symbolic representations of value or not. Happy Labor Day to all who are with us, whether you're "productive" or not. We are going to live well by sticking together.