EDIT: the strike and boycott ended, for now, on Sunday July 27. Negotiations have resumed. Stay tuned for updates.

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Fenway Park concession workers are ON #STRIKE and on the picket line as of noon Friday! The strike is against Aramark corporation, not the #RedSox.

The union has called for a #BOYCOTT of all food and drink purchases in Fenway Park during the strike, which will continue for at least this weekend's series against the #Dodgers unless they can settle with the company.

{EDIT: added a pic of non-scabby snacks that fans enjoyed during the boycott}

Support our neighbors in UNITE-HERE Local 26, who worked without a contract for over six months! Enough is enough. Remember, fans can always bring in outside food, and usually you can get in with sealed bottles of water.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/strike-fenway-park-concession-workers-165350281.html

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#shortages #livingwage

Today in Labor History July 13, 1892: Martial law was declared in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, with National Guards and federal troops coming to “restore order.” The Western Federation of Miners had called the strike, demanding a living wage of $3.50/day. However, their militancy escalated when they discovered that the bosses were using Pinkertons to infiltrate and undermine their union, and after mine guards killed of one of their members. Things came to a head on July 11, when WFM members fought gunbattles with company guards at several mines and dynamited the Frisco mine.

I've been watching old episodes of the sitcom "It's A Living", and every time they sing "It's a living." in the theme song, part of me wants to angrily shout out "Not anymore it isn't!"

Basing people's social security and retirement funds on how much they can cajole some fascist corporation into paying them during their working life is not a just or a sustainable plan.

We need a return to defined benefit retirement and/or UBI for every person earning less than $100k a year.

“The gig economy is zero rights and zero protection,” says Shaf Hussain, a food delivery courier in London.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-25/gigification-the-future-of-work/

Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits #Technologysector #Technology #Gigeconomy #Livingwage #Worldnews #Business #USnews #UKnews #Uber #Apps

Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/second-study-finds-uber-used-opaque-algorithm-to-dramatically-boost-profits #Technologysector #Technology #Gigeconomy #Livingwage #Worldnews #Business #USnews #UKnews #Uber #Apps

A healthy economy doesn't break if one big conglomerate goes down, for whatever reason.

Our economy is not healthy, but it could be. Local and Regional producers are the key to a sustainable future, not relying on exploitative food and goods shipped halfway around the world.

The caveat is that sweatshop conditions cannot be tolerated. It only works with living wages and reasonable incomes.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-23/commoning-diversity-and-small-scale-manufacturing/

#Localization #Community #Sustainability #Economy #DeGrowth #LivingWage #

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life with which we surround them.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…