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Peter Rileypeterjriley2024
2025-12-17

Industrial disputes & news - 17 December 2025
SA public sector workers; Tassie ; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; ; SA & ; ; ; ; ; ; ; & more

(Thanks Sarah Missen)
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2025-12-16

"Striking Starbucks baristas arrested outside the company's West Coast distribution center in Nevada. Cops brought a BearCat anti-riot tank to face down peaceful workers just trying to make ends meet and get a fair contract."

#nocontractnocoffee #Solidarity #union #strike #WorkerRights #labour #LabourMovement #uspol #protest #fascism

Fight for a Union 

Striking Starbucks baristas arrested outside the company's West Coast distribution center in Nevada. Cops brought a BearCat anti-riot tank to face down peaceful workers just trying to make ends meet and get a fair contract. 
#nocontractnocoffee
2025-12-16

"Since October 6, 2025:

- largest rallies in Alberta history are held in support of striking teachers
- Danielle Smith and the UCP respond to this historic support by legislating teachers back to work using the Notwithstanding clause of the constitution. The finance minister and the education minister admit the clause was used to avoid an arbitration decision that almost certainly would have favoured the teachers.
- No meaningful response is seen from the ATA or the labour movement, so Albertans, without any institutional support, organize recall campaigns across the province and begin a historic petition drive to stop public money going to private schools. As of today almost half of the UCP caucus is facing recall (although the Nathan Neudorf recall is almost certainly a scam to avoid an actual recall).
- Danielle Smith and the UCP state that the recall and public initiative legislation is being 'misused' ( i.e. against them)and must be changed.
- the 'Keeping Alberta Forever Canadian' citizen initiative is approved and then completely ignored by Smith and the UCP.
- The UCP holds its AGM and separatists are cheered wildly and openly hateful speech is given standing ovations.
- Smith and the UCP announce Bill 14, a law which will ban people from starting political parties with the word conservative and also retroactively allow the separatists to hold a referendum.
- The original separatist referendum question is ruled unconstitutional by the Court of Kings Bench.
- Smith and the UCP add the notwithstanding clause to three anti trans laws. No legal challenges can be made to the laws. Children in Alberta will now have to have their genitals inspected to play sports at school.
- Bill 14 passes and the separatists file another referendum question.
- The Alberta education minister sends a letter to all parents with children in public schools exhorting them to 'celebrate the birth of christ'.

This all happened in less than 2 months, and I left things out.

Freedom to Smith and her supporters is subjugation for everyone else.

Keep organizing, keep resisting; cause folks if we don't stop this soon, there is a knock coming in the middle of the night."

- Rory Gill (former president of CUPE Alberta)

#abpoli #cdnpoli #fascism #Solidarity #union #strike #Labour #LabourMovement #WorkerRights #workingclass #Alberta

2025-12-16

I just discovered this amazing photo on the Starbucks workers' union's website (Starbucks Workers United: sbworkersunited.org/the-red-cu ), with US Senator Bernie Sanders and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the center, taken in Brooklyn. :)

#Solidarity #union #strike #labour #LabourMovement #uspol

Sen. Sanders, Mayor-elect Mamdani with union Starbucks baristas in Park Slope, Brooklyn
2025-12-16

You know what I love most about the Starbucks strikes? These are all young people. People who can't remember how workers fought for their rights and bought each labour law with blood. Capitalists want this history to be forgotten to bring back indentured servitude. They are learning it by living it.

Our future will be in good hands.

#uspol #union #strike #Solidarity #WorkerRights #labour #LabourMovement

🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelpambiguous_yelp@veganism.social
2025-12-16

@ErikUden While in principle I like your partys organizational principles the best, its still electoralism and material forces will cause capitalists to infiltrate and corrupt your party, remember 100 years ago labour was a party of the labour movement

You're right that changes are fought for on the ground but we cant let the bells and whistles of party organising hamper the movement, mutual aid is not charity, as soon as our movement becomes solely dependant on investment from yourparty we will become party organs. I'm not saying dont take the money because initial set up can take a lot of cash but dont become dependant on it, build dual power directly coops and mutual aid structures of all kinds

#Electoralism #YourParty #UnitedKingdom #Anarchism #DualPower #MutualAid #GreenParty #LabourParty #LabourMovement

Peter Rileypeterjriley2024
2025-12-15

Campaign to Organize Digital Employees in the tech 👩‍💻, games 🕹️, and digital industries 🖱️ with CWA. code-cwa.org/organize

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Campaign to Organize Digital Employees in the tech 👩‍💻, games 🕹️, and digital industries 🖱️ with CWA. 

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Peter Rileypeterjriley2024
2025-12-14

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