your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾

labour educator. (they/them/comrade)

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

a movie like sisterhood of the travelling pants except it’s about unions sharing the same scabby the rat

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

In my new book, Fired Up About Unions, my goal was to explain unions & worker power, past & present - to people who are eager to know more about labour. I write about how unions are the best tool young people have to change the world.

#futureofwork

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[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

The BC Teachers Federation, the province wide labour union representing over 40,000 teachers, has just passed a resolution in support of BDS!

The first province-wide motion to support BDS in solidarity with Palestine!!

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

Read my first foray into substack:
https://t.co/bxJBCnMX8A

[Labor Notes @labornotes]

“The bosses underestimate how connected, resourceful and determined we are in our demand for equity. I talk with my colleagues on strike and I hear over and over again, 'I am in it for the long haul,'” writes Adriana Webb, medical social worker at Kaiser: https://t.co/s4JJsf3z7M

[National Union of Healthcare Workers @NUHW]

We’re thrilled to launch NUHW’s Union Organizer Training Program! Be part of the movement that’s making a difference in workplaces across the country as union favorability continues to grow. Register now! 🔗https://t.co/MVl6yvHeNz

[Amazon Piss Jugs @JeremyWard33]

Y'all have no idea how happy this makes me

[vampire workday @imbobswaget]

man people are being so insane online right now don’t you know it’s stone fruit season

[Emma Jackson @EmmaJackson57]

Edmonton’s first annual Billionaire Block Party was a resounding success!

We’ll see you again in Q4. 🤑

https://t.co/9NAsaF8bBQ

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

sad to report that in order to get something done you have to do it 📚

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

@ES_Wickham Truly had me for a minute there

[Civic Service Union 52 @CSU52]

No progress has been made in the on-going negotiations after the City of Edmonton chose not reach out to the union over the weekend.

Today, Civic Service Union 52 has served strike notice to the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Public Library.

After the 72 hour notice period, the picket line will begin at 11:00am on Thursday, March 14th. #yeg #csu52

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

@evanj_hamont ur strava continues to inspire me

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

egging someone’s house but with this beauty

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

cool, now ban back to work legislation.

#canlab

[CBC News @CBCNews]

Sources with knowledge of the anti-scab legislation tell CBC the government will table a bill that would prevent employers in federally regulated workplaces from bringing in replacement workers during a strike. https://t.co/uYHo4PKJXe

[your employer sucks 🍞🌹🌾 @colerockarts]

workers analysis by and for workers from me:

[Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag]

Not only do labour publications @rankandfileca and @labornotes report on workers' struggles, they help build a stronger labour movement.

Union organizer and educator @colerockarts recommends articles for workers looking to organize more strategically.

https://t.co/PYA22LkeCN

[Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. (he/him) @ajesusjoseph]

Sarah Jama was elected, winning every single poll, for who she is, what she stands for, & how she does it. Every poll. Her positions were known then. The ONDP's removal of Sarah from the party & shutting down of emails, websites, etc. is a direct affront to the democratic process

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag]

We're in Edmonton at @AviaryEdmonton with @JeremyAppel1025 @colerockarts and @aladeankheroufi to celebrate our 50th tonight! Doors 7:30, program 8, PWYC/by donation, masking strongly encouraged.

[Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag]

Four years after the HK protests, organizers reflect on how to grow the movement under China’s political repression.

"We have never doubted that we will be back out on the streets in movement with each other. The question [...] is: how will we return?" https://t.co/qJPs9a75dw