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Today in Labor History July 14, 1791: Birmingham Riots against religious dissenters, the chemist and liberal political theorist Joseph Priestley, and supporters of the French Revolution. Priestly discovered oxygen and invented carbonated water. Just prior to the riots, he tried to form a society in support of universal suffrage. However, he had also published a pamphlet describing how to extract the most work out of the poor for the smallest investment. He also held religious ideas that conflicted with the orthodoxy of the Anglican Church. Throughout the 18th century, Birmingham was notorious for Church-and-King riots, stoked by the ruling elite. In 1751 and 1759, mobs attacked Quakers and Methodists. In 1780, there were the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots. One contemporary described the Birmingham rabble as the "bunting, beggarly, brass-making, brazen-faced, brazen-hearted, blackguard, bustling, booby Birmingham mob."

Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.

Today in Labor History July 13, 1917: A 3-day General Strike began in São Paulo, Brazil, following the killing of the anarchist shoemaker, Antonio Martinez on July 10. Martinez was killed by police during a demonstration in support of textile strikers. The strike wave continued into 1919, with an attempted Anarchist Revolution in November, 1918.

Morgen ist Nationalfeiertag in Frankreich
Freunde aus Deutschland wollten wissen, wie wir in Frankreich den Nationalfeiertag begehen. Meine Antwort war vielleicht etwas zu schnippig:
„Traditionsgemäß wird bei uns an diesem Tag nur rotes Fleisch und Blutwurst verzehrt.
Vegis greifen auf Rote Beete zurück.
Ich hole den Nachbau einer Guillotine aus dem Keller und stelle sie vor die Tür.
Im CD Player läuft in Dauerschleife die Nationalhymne."
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Workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 5 voted to authorize a strike at Safeway locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the North Coast, citing unfair labor practices and “bad faith bargaining.” Workers have been without a contract since April.

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Times-Standard · Northern California Safeway workers vote to authorize strikeBy Robert Schaulis

Thousands of members voted nearly unanimously to authorize both an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) or an Economic strike, should either option become necessary. This show of solidarity demonstrates our collective strength and commitment to securing the fair agreement our members deserve.

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A local sanitation workers strike that began on July 1 in Boston, Massachusetts, and left trash unpicked across the city is now spreading nationwide in a series of labor actions coordinated by the Teamsters union as frustrated workers demand better pay and benefits from Republic Services, a major waste disposal company.

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share.google · Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread NationwideAs work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.