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Makati City, Philippines - Construction workers rest by the road during break time in Makati City on August 19, 2014. Photo by Mark Cristino
War on Want joined UK and US fast food workers at McDonald’s in Whitehall, London, on Wednesday 13 January, as part of a global campaign for fast food workers’ rights. The demonstration was followed by a fast food forum at parliament, hosted by Fast Food Rights. UK and US fast food workers were joined by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP, who founded the Fast Food Rights campaign alongside the Bakers and Allied Food Workers Union (BFAWU) in 2014, and other leading figures from the trade union and anti-austerity movement.
War on Want has long fought for the rights of workers. We stand proudly beside fast food workers in the UK, and the US Fight For $15 movement, in the global struggle for a living wage, better working conditions and union rights.
Workers at the Toll owned Coles distribution centre in the northern Melbourne suburb of Somerton went on strike today, and picketed their huge plant. They are demanding pay and conditions equivalent to those given to workers at other distribution centres.
(History.com) Dec. 6 - On this day in 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city's namesake and the nation's first president, George Washington. As early as 1783, the infant U.S. Congress decided that a statue of George Washington, the great Revolutionary War general, should be placed near the site of the new Congressional building, wherever it might be. After then-President Washington asked him to lay out a new federal capital on the Potomac River in 1791, architect Pierre L'Enfant left a place for the statue at the western end of the sweeping National Mall (near the monument's present location).
It wasn't until 1832, however--33 years after Washington's death--that anyone really did anything about the monument. That year, a private Washington National Monument Society was formed. After holding a design competition and choosing an elaborate Greek temple-like design by architect Robert Mills, the society began a fundraising drive to raise money for the statue's construction. These efforts--including appeals to the nation's schoolchildren--raised some $230,000, far short of the $1 million needed. Construction began anyway, on July 4, 1848, as representatives of the society laid the cornerstone of the monument: a 24,500-pound block of pure white marble.
Six years later, with funds running low, construction was halted. Around the time the Civil War began in 1861, author Mark Twain described the unfinished monument as looking like a "hollow, oversized chimney." No further progress was made until 1876--the centennial of American independence--when President Ulysses S. Grant authorized construction to be completed.
Made of some 36,000 blocks of marble and granite stacked 555 feet in the air, the monument was the tallest structure in the world at the time of its completion in December 1884. In the six months following the dedication ceremony, over 10,000 people climbed the nearly 900 steps to the top of the Washington Monument. Today, an elevator makes the trip far easier, and more than 800,000 people visit the monument each year. A city law passed in 1910 restricted the height of new buildings to ensure that the monument will remain the tallest structure in Washington, D.C.--a fitting tribute to the man known as the "Father of His Country."
Announcement of the launch of the educational campaign for new protections to domestic service workers, including right to minimum wage and overtime and protection against discrimination while on the job.
Hawaii is only the 2nd state behind New York to enact legislation expanding the rights of domestic service workers.
Singers / musicians, taken at a recording of Workers' Playtime in 1959. Someone has suggested that the man on the far left is Steve Race, a pianist.
Gibson would have been commissioned by the company where the recording was staged, called Willerleys, but I haven't been able to find any trace of them.
In 2124, when humanity had finally resolved all conflicts on earth and started gazing outwards, they needed a cheap and efficient craft to manipulate debris in space. The Worker Bee was the solution: cheap to build, cheap to maintain, but incredibly reliable. As its inventor Trevor McGregor always said: "It ain't designed to win no fancy awards, just git the job done."
I've been building on this small craft for more than six years. It has been wrecked by moves and children until I finally decided to finish it. I'm particularly pleased with the sliding mechanism in the center. It's held in place by an old M-Tron magnet and is really satisfying to slide back and forth.
And I served me time with the iron men
And I've known good times and work a-plenty
But there's no work now in these troubled times
And the shipyard slips they're lying empty
This construction worker is with a beautiful woman.
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Harapan flyover. Jambi and South Sumatra Provinces, Sumatra, Indonesia.
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The BCGEU Young Workers Committee is comprised of members 30 and under who encourage young people to get active in all areas of the union.
2018 New York State Peer Worker Certification in HIV/Hepatitis C/Harm Reduction program graduation ceremony. (Mike Wren/Department of Health)
MATT & HAYLEY JONES, CAROLINE LEONG, HELEN FRIES, BEN CONNELLY, JACKIE FORD, AL SMITH
THE WORKERS BALMAIN LAUNCH PARTY
1/292 DARLING ST, BALMAIN
WEDNESDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2012
PHOTOGRAPHER: BELINDA ROLLAND © 2012
Timorese worker at the site of the future Foreign Affairs office by Dili beachfront road. Photo by UNMIT/ Martine Perret .5 September 2007
Panasonic GF1, Lumix 20,f/1,7 ASPH. This photograph is Copyright and may NOT in part or in whole be reproduced in any electronic or printed medium without prior permission from the photographer.
War on Want joined UK and US fast food workers at McDonald’s in Whitehall, London, on Wednesday 13 January, as part of a global campaign for fast food workers’ rights. The demonstration was followed by a fast food forum at parliament, hosted by Fast Food Rights. UK and US fast food workers were joined by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP, who founded the Fast Food Rights campaign alongside the Bakers and Allied Food Workers Union (BFAWU) in 2014, and other leading figures from the trade union and anti-austerity movement.
War on Want has long fought for the rights of workers. We stand proudly beside fast food workers in the UK, and the US Fight For $15 movement, in the global struggle for a living wage, better working conditions and union rights.