Folks,
Greetings from the Burgh, where we are preparing for a major week of tracking the growing movement for May Day Strikes.
54% Raised Towards May Day Strike Coverage
While many mainstream outlets are just starting to pick up on May Day coverage, Payday has been out covering the growing movement for months. But, unlike mainstream reporters, I gotta crowdfund my salary so I need your help.
We are currently 56% of the way to our crowdfunding goal. Can you donate to help us pay the bills?
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May Day Actions in 100 Cities Sponsored by Unions
So far, Payday Report has tracked May Day actions in over 100 cities that are being sponsored by over 200 unions. (See our map here)
We started our map by tracking specific May Day actions backed by unions to get a sense of how unions were responding to the call for a May Day Strike. However, some unions are being slow to back May Day and many more actions are being sponsored by community and immigrants’ rights groups.
Check out May Day Strong Coalition’s Full Map Here
Madison School Districts to Close for May Day
Last week, Payday reported on how all the major school districts in North Carolina were shutting down at the request of the teachers union. Now, Madison, Wisconsin schools have also announced that they plan to shut down at the requests of unions. The move came after 70% of Madison Teachers Association members signed a pledge calling for a May Day walkout.
Speaking of the increasing involvement of unions in May Day actions, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of the Wisconsin-based Voces de la Frontera, said that the shutdown is a very big deal.
“It represents a very important national escalation of resistance against the growing inequality between the ultra rich and working people,” said Christine Neumann-Ortiz.
Palestinian Unions Call for May Day Support
Finally, while some U.S. mainstream unions are jumping on to support May Day actions, the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions-Gaza is reminding U.S. unions about their obligation for solidarity with workers around the world. From their statement:
Our colleagues in the American Labor Movement:
The martyrs of this catastrophe are your colleagues - your peers in both profession and class. They must not be reduced to mere statistics, rather they were workers who produced, healed, taught, and saved lives. Consequently targeting them constitutes a direct assault on the very concept of labor itself, as well as on the values upon which the global trade union movement was founded. It is from this standpoint of shared struggle - and with a full appreciation of the significance and impact of your presence, particularly within the United States - that we reach out to you.
Accordingly, as we extend our greetings to you and to the working class worldwide, particularly the martyrs, prisoners, wounded, and bereaved, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day, we in the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions call upon you to transition from the stage of expression to the stage of action, and from symbolic solidarity to impactful solidarity.
For their statement in Arabic click here
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