Anonymous ID: 903b7f May 21, 2023, 3:51 p.m. No.18882872   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2903

>>18882720 lb

seen a number of "actors" acting

but haven't seen a whole lot of soweto around

one would postulate that the dnc would be looking for the Zero to come out of retirement and bring the whole of demdom together

but maybe he's tied up with other engagements

Anonymous ID: 903b7f May 21, 2023, 5:17 p.m. No.18883291   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18883049

While President of the UMWA, Trumka led a successful nine-month strike against the Pittston Coal Company in 1989, which became a symbol of resistance against employer cutbacks and retrenchment for the entire labor movement.[9] A major issue in the dispute was Pittston's refusal to pay into the industry-wide health and retirement fund created in 1950.[10] Trumka encouraged nonviolent civil disobedience to confront the company.[11]

 

The United Mine Workers conducted a nationwide strike against Peabody Coal in 1993. Trumka was asked to respond to the possibility that some coal companies might hire permanent replacement workers.[12] He told the Associated Press in September 1993, "I'm saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you're likely to get burned."[13] He also said, "That doesn't mean I'm threatening to burn you. That just means if you strike the match, and you put your finger in it, common sense will tell you it'll burn your finger. Common sense will tell you that in these strikes, that when you inject scabs, a number of things happen. And a confrontation is one of the potentials that can happen. Do I want it to happen? Absolutely not. Do I think it can happen? Yes, I think it can happen."[12] The Associated Press reported that he was not threatening violence and that he had said that UMWA staff had spent "thousands of man hours trying to prevent anything from happening … to our members or by our members."[14]

 

Besides his domestic labor activities, Trumka established an office that raised U.S. mineworker solidarity with the miners in South Africa while they were fighting apartheid.[15] He further helped organize the U.S. Shell boycott, which challenged the multinational Royal Dutch Shell Group for its continued business dealings in South Africa.[16] For these steps, Trumka received the 1990 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.[17]