bilt2tumble:

cocainesocialist:

cocainesocialist:

United Auto Workers sit-down strike (1936)

this strike won them a 5% pay increase and the right to talk during lunch, in case you needed a reminder that if capital had its way your worklife would be entirely dystopian

That’s funny… Isn’t there a 21 Century, High Tech, Co. who just decreed that THEIR workers aren’t allowed to talk on the line, use the bathroom ‘too much’ or take more than a 30 minute Lunch break?… Oh! And NO Unions… ‘Amaaaa… Rosa’?… ‘Amazone’?… Something with an ‘A’…