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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9h

#OtD 10 Oct 1972 Black sailors from the USS Kitty Hawk in the Philippines during the Vietnam war decided to disrupt a favourite hangout of white sailors in a segregated whites-only area in protest at the beating of a Black sailor the previous night. More: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

10-10-1910 IRELAND: Huge torchlight march through Dublin to celebrate release of socialist and trade union leader James Larkin from jail.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

10-10-1933 USA: Pixley, CA: 18,000 cotton workers strike & ultimately win a pay raise; 4 workers killed during the strike.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

10-10-1947 AFRICA: Beginning of a 170-day strike ending 19 March 1948, in the railways of French-speaking West Africa. 20,000 strikers mobilized in all the territories of the former AOF under the slogan "For equal work, equal pay".

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9h

#OtD 10 Oct 1901 Laurent Tailhade, satirical poet and editor of the French anarchist newspaper Libertaire, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and fined 1000 francs for making "incendiary" comments during the Russian Tsar's visit to France

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 8h

#OtD 10 Oct 1908 suffragettes and unemployed men stormed a meeting hosted by PM Herbert Asquith in Leeds, UK. The groups were holding separate protests and met by chance, and decided to rush the meeting. A window was broken and there were a few arrests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8243...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 8h

#OtD 10 Oct 1995 the first mass walkout of French public sector workers occurred against cuts to their pensions shutting transport, schools, universities and the post. Later, private sector workers joined, and by December they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8249...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 7h

CANADA: Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday | CBC News

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 Canada Post workers, announced late Thursday that it will end its nationwide strike action and move to rotating strikes starting Saturday....

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 7h

FRANCE: Players' union backs Rabiot over criticism of Serie A's Australia fixture www.straitstimes.com/sport/footba...

France's players' union backs Rabiot over criticism of Serie A's Australia fixture

France's players' union (UNFP) has thrown its support behind AC Milan midfielder Adrien Rabiot after Serie A Chief Executive Luigi De Siervo dismissed his concerns about scheduling Milan's league matc...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 7h

Why ICE? Why? The cruelty and terror are the point..

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 22h

ICE smash car window & drag 2 sisters out—in front of elementary school at pick up time.

13 masked agents surround car—while children yelled "It's ICE!" running away in fear.

Both Jocelyn and her sister, who was driving, are DACA recipients—and were released after allowed to prove legal status.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 7h

AUSTRALIA: Activist seafarer returns to Oz www.thedcn.com.au/news/activis...

Activist seafarer returns to Australia

Activist seafarer Hamish Paterson returns to Australia after detention in Israel, sparking calls for justice and an end to Australian arms exports to Israel.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 7h

GLOBAL: Sydney Congress: white-collar voices www.industriall-union.org/sydney-congr...

Sydney Congress: white-collar voices

Ahead of the IndustriALL upcoming Sydney Congress, 40 white-collar union delegates met online, 29 September 2025, to strategize on advancing their priorities in the debates.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

New! Thanks to support from our listeners on Patreon (patreon.com/workingclass...), we have been able to add transcripts to our double podcast episode about the successful movement against the UK poll tax. Check it out on our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 7h

USA: Two movies document Starbucks union fight in Buffalo buffalonews.com/life-enterta...

Two movies document Starbucks union fight in Buffalo

The Starbucks union organizing campaign that started in Buffalo has inspired two films by documentary filmmakers. One is "Baristas vs. Billionaires," premiering at North Park Theatre Friday night, the...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 10 Oct 1903 the Women's Social & Political Union was founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester by six women. A split from the non-militant NUWSS, they chose the slogan "Deeds, not words" and a direct action approach to win votes for women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1262...

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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 6h

The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social

The Alberta Worker @abworker.bsky.social · 6h

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social

Red Deer care home workers get first contract

Workers will receive improvements to wages, shift premiums, sick leave, and overtime.

albertaworker.ca/news/red-dee...

Red Deer care home workers get first contract

Workers will receive improvements to wages, shift premiums, sick leave, and overtime.

albertaworker.ca

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 10 Oct 1922 Puerto Rican strike leader and women's rights advocate Luisa Capetillo died of TB aged 43. She had taken part in many strikes, including the highly successful sugarcane strike of 1916 which won 13% pay increases stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8244...

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AAUP-CSU @aaupcsu.bsky.social · 6h

Over the past 9 months, @aaup.org and the 100's of branches have proven that WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. We are building a "Wall of Wins" to help faculty, students, and staff see the power of unity. HELP US by quote-posting with links to your own stories about #AAUPwins to be collected on a new website.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6h

Socialist writer Charles Fourier died on this day 188 years ago.

Nearly two centuries later, his insightful, outlandish, yet oddly practical ideas still seem shockingly modern.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado-

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

She was lauded for being a “key, unifying figure" in the once deeply divided opposition to the Maduro regime.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” The former op...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 6h

Trump/Miller are abusing the power of the fed govt: rather than solving problems for Americans they are trying to silence the voices of those raising those concerns. That’s not democracy. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 5h

As superintendent Casey Coffey and I write, we want to showcase this collaborative approach to CTE and community schooling so it can be seen as a blueprint and adapted across the country.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 5h

New Lexington, OH educators, unions, businesses and nonprofits are partnering on programs and supports for students and families—and it is truly making their schools the propeller of growth and opportunity for the region. www.foxnews.com/opinion/wein...

WEINGARTEN, COFFEY: In Appalachia, one school district is proving public education still works

New Lexington public schools in rural Ohio achieve 99% graduation rate through career and technical education programs that transform students and community.

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 5h

On World Mental Health Day, let's not forget the huge place that the workplace occupies in many of our lives, and therefore in our minds 🧠

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 5h

UK: RMT welcomes Mayor’s call to pause visa changes affecting rail workers www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-wel...

RMT welcomes Mayor’s call to pause visa changes affecting rail workers

Transport union RMT today welcomed the intervention by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in calling for an urgent pause to damaging government changes to the Skilled Worker visa scheme which threaten t...

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