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Garment workers march to demand enforcement of the industry-wide agreement reached after months of strikes and other actions (Photo: NGWF).
Workers are reinforcing the exterior rock wall and adhering it to a new inner concrete wall as part of seismic upgrades to Education Hall at Oregon State University. Date: Jan. 20, 2011 (photo: Theresa Hogue)
The News Line: News Friday, 13 December 2013
Firefighters strike tonight!
Norfolk firefighters’ picket line outside Sprowston Fire Station during their last strike in November
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AHEAD of today’s and tomorrow’s four-hour national fire strikes in England and Wales, leading firefighters told News Line they want general strike action across the public sector.
Firefighters in England and Wales will strike for the fifth and sixth times this weekend, between 6.00pm and 10.00pm on both Friday 13 and Saturday 14 December.
Paul Neale, London South West Region FBU Organiser, told News Line: ‘The government aren’t listening, but we’re quite prepared to have a long battle.
‘The issues are clear – we signed a contract which clearly stated that we would have a pension at the end of our careers, but now they are tearing it up and rewriting it, all against their own medical evidence which says it is physically impossible to continue doing this job till you’re 60.
‘The biggest casualties will be female firefighters, who the medical evidence shows will struggle to maintain fitness levels.
‘The government are totally aware of this and this attack on us is part of a vindictive campaign against all those who have borne the brunt of the immense crisis caused by inept bankers and their political allies.
‘I think we should call for much longer strikes of eight days, and the TUC should be calling a national general strike of everyone out, on the grounds that we must defend our jobs and the services we provide.’
Kev Game, Norfolk Brigade Secretary, told News Line: ‘To be fair, its absolutely disgusting. We are not trying to get more from our pensions, to retire any earlier or to get a gold-plated pensions. All we want is what we signed for.
‘The last two years they’ve put our contributions up, so we are now paying 13% of our wages for our pensions every month, one of the highest contributions anywhere in the public or private sector.
The strike action that we are taking has actually come from the membership – a 78% vote in favour of strike action. Personally, I think we should develop the struggle, especially when you’ve got the news that MPs are getting an 11% pay rise, about £7,500 a year.
‘They say we are all in this together! Well, public sector workers like ourselves are all in it together, all of us having had a pay freeze for coming up to four years now.
‘I think we should have a general strike to show that the public sector workers are very unhappy about the way we are being treated.’
Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union General Secretary, said: ‘It’s now been almost two months since the government has been willing to meet us for negotiations despite several invitations from us.
‘Until they do and until they start to actually resolve the dispute, we’ll keep up the pressure for the sake of public safety and our members’ pensions.
‘In a week when the full details emerged of a £7,600 pay rise for MPs’ — which will also increase their pensions — firefighters’ anger at the government’s unworkable, unaffordable and unfair proposals will be even greater.
‘No firefighter wants to strike, but we cannot allow the government’s ludicrous proposals — and outright hypocrisy — to stand. We’ll keep on fighting until the government sees sense and comes back to negotiations.’
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name of this volcano resembles that of a different volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, also known as Gunung Merapi; there is also a third volcano named Marapi in Sumatra. The name "Merapi" means "fire" in the Indonesian language.
West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The work is low-paid and very onerous. Workers earn around $5.50-$8.30 (Rp 50,000 - Rp 75,000) per day and once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks about three kilometers to the nearby Pultuding valley to get paid.
Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an east/west-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 metres (1,184 ft), a surface of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).
In 2008, explorer George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.
There is SO MUCH construction work going on in Beijing before the Olympics. I have trouble walking the street of my hostel. In the City centre the cranes are everywhere. In the Hutongs - narrow streets or alleys - the government is tearing down the old and ugly houses and building the same house over and over again so that the Westerners wont see anything ugly in August. Sometimes they just surround an ugly neighbourhood with a nice gray wall. I'll surely post more on this subject later.
Colombia’s isolated indigenous communities were devastated by exceptional floods in recent months. However, access to remote villages in order to provide aid requires sailing down rivers for hours, in speedboats loaded with medicines and personnel.
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Workers laying pipes in a trench.
Probably related to the Lillian Street Interceptor sewage system improvements. Undated.
Accession 1991-03 #89
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A building site in the baking sun. One of the boys said he was not yet 13, but that he was proud to be doing heavy labour for 12 hours a day for a wage of just one dollar. He explained that if he doesn't work, his family will go hungry.
Bueno aqui os dejo mi primera practica con texturas. Espero mejorar esta técnica en proximas fotos pero....algun dia tenia que empezar jeje
AWIB-ISAW: Workers' Village (III)
A close up of one of the individual houses of the village. The Workers' Village had a very strict layout and none of the houses varied far from this one. by Kyera Giannini (2009)
copyright: 2009 Kyera Giannini (used with permission)
photographed place: (Deir el-Medina) [pleiades.stoa.org/places/864388873/]
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB). Further information: [www.nyu.edu/isaw/awib.htm].
Worker on a ship construction site. Port of Genoa, Italy.
September 2008
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This is a section of a new memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum and is dedicated to railway workers, this is part of the rear panel and the picture is etched on to marble. © All Rights Reserved.
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Caption (Original Description)
Veteran migrant worker and his wife camped in Wagoner County, Oklahoma
Photographer
Russell Lee
Created
June 1939
Location
Wagoner, Oklahoma
Library of Congress photo
SDASM.CATALOG: Arnold_00111
SDASM.TITLE: Workers Assembling Plane
SDASM.DATE: 1934-1939
SDASM.LOCATION: Shien Chiao China
SDASM.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: watermark on back: ""Agfa-Brovira"" (photo paper brand)
SDASM.COLLECTION: George Arnold Collection
SDASM.MEDIA: Glossy Photo
SDASM.DIGITIZED: Yes
PUBLIC COMMONS.SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
I got the most outrageously dirty look from this old dude in a suit as I walked by marina bay financial centre in shorts and slippers, on my way to give a photography class yesterday. Dude, you look like an idiot wearing a suit in this city, I realize you're only stopping here for a couple days on your VERRRRY important business, but fyi - nobody wears a suit here: you look like a tool. Oh, and perhaps you should try doing something that makes you a bit less grumpy and a bit more interesting for the rest of your working life. Just an idea.
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name of this volcano resembles that of a different volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, also known as Gunung Merapi; there is also a third volcano named Marapi in Sumatra. The name "Merapi" means "fire" in the Indonesian language.
West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The work is low-paid and very onerous. Workers earn around $5.50-$8.30 (Rp 50,000 - Rp 75,000) per day and once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks about three kilometers to the nearby Pultuding valley to get paid.
Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an east/west-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 metres (1,184 ft), a surface of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).
In 2008, explorer George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.
Sex workers are taking part in the International Women’s Strike (IWS), with women in over 40 countries participating. Read the A declaration from English Collective of Prostitutes and Empower Foundation, endorsed by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP.ORG) issued which puts forth some of the reasons why sex workers are striking:
“On March 8, in the spirit of solidarity as part of the International Women’s Strike, sex workers will strike against poverty, criminalization and stigma, whether by refusing to go to work, charging double rates or by any other action possible.”
The Women’s March on Washington is calling for a ‘Day without A Woman’ on March 8 too, International Women’s Day. The contingent is part of the IWS march in Oakland.
Bring Your Red Umbrellas! :-)
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Ms Vu Thi Hoat, 46, says she will never work abroad again but stay at home, taking care of her grandson so that his parents can work in Taiwan (China).
In 2015, she found a recruitment agency to send her to Saudi Arabia, on the condition that she would work as a domestic worker for the same employer as her cousin, with a monthly salary of 1,500 Riyals (VND9 million). However, on arrival, she was sent to a different employer with a monthly salary of only 1,000 Riyals. Disagreeing with the job, she was brought back to Viet Nam after 4 months, on paying the recruitment agency VND60 million but having only received her first month’s salary. Back in Viet Nam, Ms Hoat and her husband decided to borrow another VND200 million to cover the fee to send her son and his wife to work in Taiwan (China), with the hope that they will be able to pay the debts for her Saudi Arabia trip and their own trip, as well as save up for the future.©ILO/Nguyen Viet Thanh
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Gov. Jay Inslee signs senate bill 5272 at this year's ceremony which allows for automated speed enforcement camera systems in established work zones. Gov. Inslee named our highway maintenance worker Adam Gonzales, a speaker at our ceremony, Washingtonian of the Day. He has been struck 3 times since joining our agency in 2016, suffering several injuries.
Migrant workers in Beijing. Stopping for a break late at night on the construction of a new subway station. 24/7 construction exists in Beijing, often under large flood lights.
Workers laying pipes in a trench, with a train visible in the background.
Probably related to the Lillian Street Interceptor sewage system improvements. Undated.
Accession 1991-03 #88
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