#machine workers

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"THREE UNIONS HEARD ERE WORKERS CHOOSE," Toronto Star. July 22, 1943. Page 2. --- Joint Meeting Held in Jarvis Sees Machinists' Group Given Mandate ---- In Jarvis Tuesday evening spokesmen for three unions - two affiliated with the C.I.O. and one with the A.F. of L. - placed their cases before workers of two war plants and then asked the workers to vote for the union they wanted to represent them.

The three unions were the United Steelworkers of America, C.I.O., the United Automobile Workers of America. C.I.O., and the International Association of Machinists. A.F. of L. After hearing the representatives of all three, a majority of the workers voted for the machinists.

The workers were from the John Bertram Machinery Co. and the Pratt and Whitney Co.. both of Jarvis. Russell Harvey. A.F. of L. organizer and one of the men to speak on behalf of the machinists' union, said today the vote was "informal" and no agreement has been made with either of the companies, whereby the companies will bargain collectively with the union chosen.

"Our organization program is just getting under way in the plants," he said, "but we consider Tuesday's meeting something new and an excellent method of enabling workers to choose the union they want to represent them."

The joint meeting was held at the request of the workers, who stated their desire in a petition signed by 80 per cent. of their number.

Alex Reith. grand lodge representative of the International Association of Machinists, said the three unions had made a "gentleman's agreement" whereby the losers will not attempt to organize in the two plants.

[pinkimark]

Welcome to the unconventional shaped tumblr sexymen gang, Ena. ❤

[adragonthatwrites]

Nuzi is a ship where

"Me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic"

works from both directions.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Predation. [Patreon | Commissions]

[optimistic-autistic]

nothing so aggravating as seeing people claim what Hades did was just a misunderstanding because he ''loved Persephone too much''. like i don't know about you, but it's pretty hard for that to turn into building a town based on slavery and later getting a girl and assaulting her (even if it's just implied, he still at least had to pretend to do something like it, because his goal was to make Persephone mad).

[handweavers]

i'm a weaver my time is spent sitting at looms and spinning wheels and sewing machines and dye pots, and my ability to make any money at all comes from the fact that my work can't be truly reproduced by machine and speaks to my own and others' desire to reconnect with acts of making and living that are slower and emphasize the physicality of our lives, that we are present in our bodies in a physical world and we are sensorial creatures who relate to each other and the world through tactile means. it serves as a reminder that there is a lot we can do away from screens, that there is joy and meaning to be found in creating something with your hands, and that through this we can find channels to address and learn to live with grief and loss without running from the fact that we are living animals with meatbodies and a finite amount of time.

i think it would be very easy for me to fall into a trap where all modern technology is bad and we need to escape it at all costs and to take a luddite approach to technology - literally a luddite approach, because the phrase "luddite" comes from workers in england during the industrial revolution who destroyed machinery in cotton and wool mills to protest the introduction of that machinery as cost saving measures by the capitalists. but the problem in that situation wasn't inherently the machinery that processed cotton and wool more efficiently, it was that the people who owned the factories used that technology as an excuse to pay fewer workers and maximize profit while creating more unsafe working conditions for the workers that remained. in a situation where the workers owned the factory and the machinery, the introduction of this machinery wouldn't have necessarily been harmful but rather potentially helpful to the workers, for whom more free time wouldn't be a death sentence and proper precautions in the use of the machinery to protect human life could be prioritized

i don't want to make the mistake of confusing technology or some other boogeyman as my enemy. the enemy is capitalism, and i choose to prioritize class consciousness over my private existential worries about new technological developments. all the tech we use is made by humans, just like this economic system we live in. we have the capacity to dismantle economic systems and build new ones, just as we have the capacity to use the tech we make in ways that benefit rather than harm us and the world we live in. my gut tendency is to be distrustful of new tech but i have to remind myself that it isn't helpful and it obfuscates what's actually going on.

[mingot-studios]

Am I the only one who seriously can't STAND Edwin?

[victusinveritas]

[tauon07]

people who defend companies like openai are incredibly funny because sure let's replace paying people's wages with 250 million dollars worth of hardware that is a brilliant fucking idea that has zero downsides

[noxclara]

I personally loved the detail of the team hanging out after the shift and seeing a bit of their personal lifes because it doesn't matter how horrible the day was, at the end of it you are still a human being with a life to live and sometimes that's one of the things that people forget the most about health workers

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Un entretien entre députés et grévistes," La Presse. August 11, 1943. Page 3. --- Il aura lieu demain à 1 heure p.m. Grève dans sa deuxième semaine. --- La grève des 20,000 ouvriers des trois plus importantes avionneries du Canada, la Noorduyn, la Vickers et la Fairchild, est entrée dans sa seconde semaine aujourd'hui pendant que se multiplient les entretiens dans l'espoir de mettre fin à ce conflit.

Toutefois les entretiens que les délégués de la loge 712 de l'Union internationale des machinistes, section de l'avionnerie, ont eus hier à Ottawa ne semblent pas avoir eu de résultats satisfaisants et nous apprenons "qu'aucune concession n'au- rait été consentie par le ministère du travail ou par tout autre représentant fédéral pour le retour des grévistes au travail".

On sait que les trois avionneries sont fermées sur l'ordre des hon. C.- D. Howe, ministre des munitions et approvisionnements, et Humphrey Mitchell, ministre du travail. Les grévistes réclament des arrérages du boni de vie chère.

Entretiens avec les députés demain Les représentants des grévistes auront un entretien avec les députés fédéraux et provinciaux de l'ile de Montréal à 1 h., demain après-midi. apprend-on aux quartiers généraux de la loge 712. Cette conférence a pour but de trouver le moyen d'en arriver à une entente. Il se peut, nous dit-on, que les chefs de la loge et les députés aient ensuite une entrevue avec le premier ministre du Canada, le Tres Hon. M. King.

Les entretiens de MM. Robert Haddow et D. S. Lyons, respectivement représentant canadien et vice-président de l'union internationale des machinistes, avec les chefs du Congr��s des métiers du Canada et des officiels du gouvernement fédéral, ne semblent pas avoir donné de résultat à date.

On n'a aucune nouvelle également de l'entretien que la Fédération provinciale du travail devait avoir hier avec le premier ministre de la province, l'hon. Adélard Godbout, pour lui demander son intervention personnelle dans le différend de l'avionnerie. Les chefs de la fédération reviendront aujourd'hui dans la métropole.

Réunion, hier soir Des milliers de grévistes se sont réunis, hier soir, à l'Auditorium Hall, pour entendre le rapport de leurs délégués à Ottawa, mais on n'a rien annoncé. MM. Sarto Fournier, dé- puté de Maisonneuve-Rosemont aux Communes, Emile Boucher, député de S.-Henri, à Québec, ont toutefois adressé la parole aux grévistes. Bien que M. Fred Rose, nouveau député fédéral de Cartier, n'ait pas été invité à la réunion, mais il a adressé la parole aux grévistes. Il les a encouragés à réclamer leur boni rétroactif.

La réunion d'hier soir était sous les auspices du Conseil des métiers et du travail dont le président est M, Paul Fournier.

M. Rose a déclaré que "le peuple est fatigué de la politique de MM. Howe et Mitchell".

Il a de plus sévèrement blâmé les autorités fédérales, le parti libéral et l'Association des manufacturiers et les accuses d'avoir retardé le reglement de la grève.

il y aura ce soir une autre réunion au cours de laquelle des rapports sur les entretiens d'Ottawa et de Québec seront donnés.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Crowded table to table, textile workers lean over their machines, sewing clothing in the Garment District, June 28, 1944. New York had always been the chief producer of clothing in the U.S. but it also became a fashion center during World War II, when Parisian fashion was unavailable.

Photo: Associated Press

[isbergillustration]

I am going to throw either me or my printer or both out of this fifth story window I want to fucking die

'edit: got it working so i am human again

[whosname]

[id. Digitals sketch of a very focused Salarymen Zura hunched over a sewing machine sewing his next cosplay. He has some pins in his mouth, half of his hair is up in two buns held by pencils. end id]

[ludcake]

biggest jaehaerys flop moment as king (rather than husband and father) is when his wife, THE QUEEN, went to the citadel (his wife who is notable for being the proponent and biggest driving force of some of the main reforms of her time) and she said "hey why don't the girls get to go to the citadel" and immediately got laughed off the stage by the weird wizards and didn't get back up by anyone

(same citadel that her son attended btw)

[gigginox]

solidus snake was right bomb new york city AGAIN