Es gab mal eine Zeit, in der der Pfarrer von der Kanzel aus, in oder nach der Predigt, seinen "Schäfchen" riet, #CSU / #CDU zu wählen. Das war ok, für die #Union.
Beklagt die #Kirche ungerechte olitik und steigende Armut, wird sie zur #NG gelabelt und gewarnt. Von der #Klöckner.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/julia-kloeckner-kritik-an-kirchen-als-austauschbare-ngos-a-ab531017-5c9e-42b6-acd9-13556e4896eb

Peter #Pomerantsev : "Après l’ #Ukraine, la prochaine étape pour #Poutine sera de détruire l’ #Union #européenne #UE" (Article partiel) www.lexpress.fr/idees-et-deb...

Peter Pomerantsev : "Après l’U...

Peter #Pomerantsev : "Après l’ #Ukraine, la prochaine étape pour #Poutine sera de détruire l’ #Union #européenne #UE"

(Article partiel)

https://www.lexpress.fr/idees-et-debats/peter-pomerantsev-apres-lukraine-la-prochaine-etape-pour-poutine-sera-de-detruire-lunion-europeenne-ZJKPF3QRR5EEPBBTAZDGGMWNBA/

Seeking advice on collecting union dues!

A recent Exec. Order ended the ability for federal staff to pay union dues through automatic paycheck withdrawal. I am volunteering to help my union, IFPTE Local 8a, find a new way to collect dues. We are looking at Unionly and UnionWare so far. What other services should we research? Any Feds or Unions have advice?

Boosts appreciated for reach.

Photo of tulips represents strength in numbers and standing together.
#StrongerTogether #Union #solidarity

Today in Labor History April 20, 1948: United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther was shot and seriously wounded by would-be assassins while he was eating dinner. It permanently impaired his right arm. He survived and ultimately died in a plane crash in 1970 under suspicious circumstances. Reuther also survived an attempted kidnapping in April, 1938, while his brother Victor was shot and nearly killed by police in 1949. The UAW headquarters was also bombed in 1949. Both Walter and Victor were again nearly killed in a small private plane near Dulles Airport. Despite this history of attempts on his life, virtually no media addressed the possibility that his actual death may have been an assassination.

#news Rufe nach AfD-Verbotsverfahren stoßen in Union auf Unverständnis: Die Debatte über den Umgang mit der AfD belastet schon vor der Amtsübernahme der schwarz-roten Regierungskoalition das Verhältnis zwis... https://hubu.de/?p=275479 | #afdverbotsverfahren #rufe #union #

Factory jobs are not inherently good jobs. Even if Donald Trump’s trade policies bring factories back to the United States, workers need unions to make those jobs well-paying and safe — and Trump has been the most anti-union president in years.

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/unions-factories-trump-jobs-trade/

Eldar Alisherov and Deputy Prime Minister of Republic of Armenia Mher Grigoryan discussed integration and macroeconomic issues https://www.byteseu.com/938901/ #Armenia #economy #Eurasia #RepublicOfArmenia #Union

https://www.europesays.com/2011338/ Plusieurs dizaines de cyclistes blessés dans une chute massive à la course UCI Gran Fondo de l’Eau d’Heure ce dimanche #2025 #België #belgien #Belgique #belgium #BleuEtJaune #foot #Football #game #JPL #JupilerProLeague #match #MauveEtBlanc #mauves #Nachrichten #Nieuws #Nouvelles #paars #paarswit #PlayOff #PlayOffs #playoff #RoyaleUnion #RSCAnderlecht #rsca #SaintGilles #SaintGilloise #SintGillis #Soccer #Sporting #union #unionistes #usg #voetbal #wedstrijd #XavierPiron

Jetzt macht die #Kirche EINMAL was richtiges, schon wird sie zur „NGO degradiert“ und gemaßregelt.

Wenn die #Bundestagspräsidentin die Kirchen auffordert, sich nicht mehr politisch zu äußern, wird es Zeit, dass die #Union das C im Namen endlich ablegt.

#Klöckner

https://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kommentare/kommentar-ein-maulkorb-fuer-die-kirchen-kloeckners-unpassender-vorstoss/100122603.html

“the State has directly transformed #capitalism since the 1930s. The State regulates the flow of capital, owns outright or indirectly, large bodies of capital, (for example, the aerospace program in both its public and private sectors), and through the contract – enforced by the shop [committees] and #union stewards, who in effect become agents of the state – disciplines the workers. On the one hand, the #NewDeal Acts … provided the legal context in which workers raised their wages through massive #strikes at the end of World War II. On the other hand, the CIO #unions became through the process the political weapons of the State against the working class. Carefully legalized mass industrial unions were a necessary part of this development; industry-wide bargaining agents able to impose wage rates high enough to drive out all marginal producers who cut prices by super-exploitation of workers were in effect incorporated into the State apparatus.”
— Richard #Warwick, Working Class Self-Activity (1969)
#labor #history #uspol #uspolitics #politics

Today in Labor History April 19, 1911: More than 6,000 immigrant workers began the Great Furniture Strike in Grand Rapids, Michigan. By the late 1800s, Grand Rapids had become the furniture making capital of the U.S. In 1890, the city had about 90,000 residents, 33,000 of whom were recent immigrants. And 4,000 of them worked in the city’s 85 furniture factories. By 1910, the industry employed over 7,000 workers. Most worked six 10-hour shifts for less than $2 a day, or about $45 in today’s dollars. One of the owners, Harry Widdicomb, tried to drive scabs to his factory, right through the crowd of strikers. They pelted his car with rocks and bricks. Police beat people with clubs and firefighters fought them back with hoses. But by evening, they had busted every window in his factory.