#internationalworkersday Timeline

2y

DS9 scene. A humanoid Bajoran (Leeta) with a bit of nose loaf is standing in the middle of a group of Ferengi. She looks super pumped up and is cheering them on. Closed caption reads, "(all chanting): Union! Union!"

Happy International Worker's Day everyone

1y

Dear makers, doers, and thinkers,

As we celebrate #InternationalWorkersDay, we reaffirm our commitment to building a fairer and more inclusive society with:

💰 Equal pay for equal work
📉 Minimum wages and skill investment
🛡️ Minimum income support
🏥 Worker safety and health protections

And we’re taking forward a new Union of Skills to help you gain access to the skills you need to get ahead, and to make sure they’re recognised throughout the EU.

Always by your side.

A circular arrangement of blue line-art icons representing various professions surrounding the text, "Your work, your rights. Europe's strength." Starting from the top and moving clockwise, the icons include a gavel, a hard hat, a smartphone with speech bubbles, a lightbulb, crossed wrenches, a broom and dustpan, two interlocking gears, a stethoscope, crossed rolling pins and a whisk, a laptop displaying code, a taxi, and a book. The European Union flag is at the bottom right corner.

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Saw this variant on the #InternationalWorkersDay thing, and I prefer it.

A variant on the 8 hours for work, rest and whatever graphic, but with 4 hours for work and 12 for “what we will”

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on this international workers' day, please remember those whose labour goes largely unacknowledged, unappreciated & unpaid. here's to the carers & the cleaners & everyone else without whom the human world would pretty much grind to a halt.
#iwd #internationalWorkersDay #huitHeures #1erMai #work #labour #art #illustration

digital ink illustration of person from the waist down who's barefooted & holding a broom.
to the right of the figure are four rectangles.
the first contains the word 'domestic'; the second, 'labour'; the third, 'is' & the fourth, 'work'.
colours are black, white, pale peach & crimson.

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For International Workers’ Day, here’s Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhuH2K5yzw

#Scottish #literature #song #politics #politicalsong #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #Orkney

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In the blunted night of the coal shed,
without a torch, my fingers dig
among the coal for the coal.
Hear it scutter into the bucket…

—Brian McCabe, “Coal”
published in BODY PARTS, @canongatebooks 1999

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/coal/

#Scottish #literature #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #poem #poetry #coalmining

Coal
Brian McCabe

In the blunted night of the coal shed,
without a torch, my fingers dig
among the coal for the coal.
Hear it scutter into the bucket.

Something else is gathered, uttered
from a darker place where memory digs
and throws its coal into a bucket –
as if a ghost stuttered, spoke:

My father clears his throat, curses
the government: ‘Thirty years in Rosewell,
in Bilston Glen, in Monktonhall –
and what is there to show for it?’

And what is there to show for it?
Flattened sites, non-places, absences
surrounded by meaningless villages.
The bars look like air-raid shelters.

‘If the shops need iron grilles here,
they’ll need them everywhere.
Like the miners of Monktonhall
we’ll all know what siege means.’

I stumble from the dark into the dark
of that night into this, to light a fire,
to watch the flames rise and flare
into eloquent tongues.

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Tae the Lords o’ Juteopolis the weavers hae spoke
“If ye rug doon oor wages, as sure as the cleck
We’ll fling up the shuttle; we’ll sune lat ye pree
The pluck o’ the lasses o’ Bonnie Dundee.”

—Mistress Lapstane, “Ane Strik(eing) Ballant”, 12 August 1875
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #19thcentury #Victorian #strike #union #tradesunions