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Today in Labor History June 30, 1906: United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in response to Upton Sinclair's novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocious sanitary conditions in Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair intended his book not only to bring attention to the public health threat of the squalid working conditions, but also to the racism faced by Chicago’s largely immigrant meat workers, as well as the corruption of both the politicians and union officials. However, the public was most outraged by the prospect of getting food poisoning from the rotten meat.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #meatpacking #publichealth #thejungle #uptonsinclair #union #corruption #foodsafety #chicago #workplacesafety #immigration #fiction #novel #book #author #writer @bookstadon

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Today in Labor History June 30, 1906: United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in response to Upton Sinclair's novel, “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocious sanitary conditions in Chicago meat packing industry. Sinclair intended his book not only to bring attention to the public health threat of the squalid working conditions, but also to the racism faced by Chicago’s largely immigrant meat workers, as well as the corruption of both the politicians and union officials. However, the public was most outraged by the prospect of getting food poisoning from the rotten meat.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #meatpacking #publichealth #thejungle #uptonsinclair #union #corruption #foodsafety #chicago #workplacesafety #immigration #fiction #novel #book #author #writer @bookstadon

Front cover of The Jungle (1906), written by Upton Sinclair and published by Doubleday, Page & Company. Image shows buildings with smokestacks spewing smoke. By Unknown author - This file has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90013862


Klaremitte @klaremitte@troet.cafe am 05. Mai 2025, 17:47:
Wann nehmen Politiker, die dafür bezahlt werden, die Interessen derjenigen Bürger:innen zu vertreten, die sich im demokratischen Spektrum befinden, endlich ihre Verantwortung wahr?! Hört auf mit faulen Lügen, Fake-news und Ausreden! #cdu, #csu, #union, #spd & Co: #afd Verbot jetzt!


In the face of massive layoffs, video game workers are unionizing in record numbers — with new wall-to-wall unions at Bethesda and Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Taylor Welling and Kathryn Friesen about their union campaigns and the state of the industry.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/236_unionizing_the_video_game_industry_w_taylor_welling__kathryn_friesen

#tech #gaming #videogames #union #microsoft #blizzard #bethesda #wow

We're just the beginning of the line of dominoes right? We are showing that it is possible to organize a game workers union, especially under Microsoft. I would love to see every game studio under ZeniMax, under Microsoft unionized. And then eventually the rest of the industry.


Retreating striking miners being shot in their backs by deputized posse, September 10, 1897. By Unknown author - The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 12, 1897https://www.newspapers.com/image/168032656/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74827096


One of our laid off #union members created this #comic, reporting their experience yesterday. It is a bittersweet but amazing wrap up of what many have experienced.

#1u #layoff #layoffs #LaborDay #labor #CodeForAmerica

A long comic strip with the events of August 31, 2023 of a worker at Code for America who was laid off while on paid time off. They got the notice and immediately noticed that their work laptop had been remotely shut off. They described the experience as being shut out of a breaking up with someone after a multi-year relationship. Furthermore, they expressed how the points made by leadership on termination did not map with what was described by the CEO. They explained the fear of even further harm by leadership despite being jobless. They felt that their layoff was related to three forms of union and labor activities they highlighted. They end it asking people to support the union internally still, to ask for donation to the fund, asking union members to join our internal observers channel and for those laid off to join our laid off slack.


This is why I said fuck: it was announced internally but instead of engaging in union bargaining, upper leadership decided to do this https://codeforamerica.org/news/moment-of-change-on-our-journey/

#labor #union


When Red Hat was a smaller corporation, it was common to see the following quote — attributed to Mahatma Gandhi — used internally and in external marketing:

"First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win."

Interestingly, this quote didn't originate from Gandhi at all. It originated from Nicholas Klein, a trade union activist addressing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Klein

#RedHat #Union #WorkersRights #FOSS

A photograph of Red Hat chairperson Paul Cormier presenting to an audience. In the background, a presentation slide with the misattributed quote bullet pointed. Photograph of a Red Hat poster showing the misattributed quote.
Photograph of a Red Hat office showing the misattributed quote painted on the wall.


These giant inflatable rats are a staple of New York City streets. They are used by unions to protest construction companies employing non-union workers.

#NYC #street #rat #union