Mark Carney celebrates Labour Day by ordering labourers back to work
Mark Carney celebrates Labour Day by ordering labourers back to work
"Now get back to work, you lazy bums!"
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September 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Mark Carney celebrates Labour Day by ordering labourers back to work
Underpaid casual labourers
April 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Underpaid casual labourers
Labourers deserve a break
September 7, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Labourers deserve a break
American wages being threatened by day labourers picking berries and not centi-billionaires is quite the talking point.
February 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
American wages being threatened by day labourers picking berries and not centi-billionaires is quite the talking point.
Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.
"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."
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April 7, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.
Indentured low wage labourers.
Exactly.
Exactly.
'Elon Musk is wrong': Bernie Sanders gives blunt takedown of Trump ally
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'Elon Musk is wrong': Bernie Sanders gives blunt takedown of Trump ally
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stepped into the boiling debate over the H1-B visa program and took aim at tech billionaire Elon Musk.The progressive senator on Thursday called out Musk for his passionate ...
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January 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Indentured low wage labourers.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Oh, a party that supports the needs of labourers? Like, a party for labourers? A labour party? I feel like we used to have something like this. Can’t quite put my finger on it though.
Anyway, #VoteGreen 💚
Anyway, #VoteGreen 💚
From bakers to farmers to anyone running a small business - rip-off Britain is squeezing us all.
It's time for a real plan to secure our food resilience: supporting farmers, bringing down costs for small businesses, and giving workers proper rights and decent pay.
It's time for a real plan to secure our food resilience: supporting farmers, bringing down costs for small businesses, and giving workers proper rights and decent pay.
June 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Oh, a party that supports the needs of labourers? Like, a party for labourers? A labour party? I feel like we used to have something like this. Can’t quite put my finger on it though.
Anyway, #VoteGreen 💚
Anyway, #VoteGreen 💚
Labour's plan to fight Reform involves [checks notes] creating a subaltern class of indentured labourers
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
September 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Labour's plan to fight Reform involves [checks notes] creating a subaltern class of indentured labourers
9th April 2004.
A rather exquisite Iron Age Gold Stater of Dubnovellaunus in Essex
30BC - 1 BC 🥰
An unexpected find from that part of the field. The site of a demolished farm labourers cottage.
A rather exquisite Iron Age Gold Stater of Dubnovellaunus in Essex
30BC - 1 BC 🥰
An unexpected find from that part of the field. The site of a demolished farm labourers cottage.
April 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
9th April 2004.
A rather exquisite Iron Age Gold Stater of Dubnovellaunus in Essex
30BC - 1 BC 🥰
An unexpected find from that part of the field. The site of a demolished farm labourers cottage.
A rather exquisite Iron Age Gold Stater of Dubnovellaunus in Essex
30BC - 1 BC 🥰
An unexpected find from that part of the field. The site of a demolished farm labourers cottage.
while tech bros and armchair philosophers contemplate rights for hypothetical conscious machines, the reality is that actual people (labourers) are treated worse than exiting machines
August 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
while tech bros and armchair philosophers contemplate rights for hypothetical conscious machines, the reality is that actual people (labourers) are treated worse than exiting machines
The Harvest, 1908 by Broncia Koller-Pinell, Austrian Expressionist painter #WomensArt #Monday
July 27, 2026 at 4:14 AM
The Harvest, 1908 by Broncia Koller-Pinell, Austrian Expressionist painter #WomensArt #Monday
Two pick-up trucks collide in Ismailia, Egypt, leaving 18 dead, mostly children working as agricultural labourers.
Truck crash in Egypt kills 18, many of them child labourers
Two pick-up trucks collide in Ismailia, Egypt, leaving 18 dead, mostly children working as agricultural labourers.
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August 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Two pick-up trucks collide in Ismailia, Egypt, leaving 18 dead, mostly children working as agricultural labourers.
Farm labourers, Ireland, c.1857, attributed to Augusta Crofton, pioneering photographer from Roscommon.
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Farm labourers, Ireland, c.1857, attributed to Augusta Crofton, pioneering photographer from Roscommon.
Good luck finding labourers to dig them up, they probably deported them all.
February 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Good luck finding labourers to dig them up, they probably deported them all.
Only rough labourers should have tattoos. Not some ponce working in an office.
January 22, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Only rough labourers should have tattoos. Not some ponce working in an office.
A truck collided with a minibus carrying day labourers, two of whom were 14-year-old girls, to their workplace.
Teen labourers among 19 killed in road collision in Egypt
A truck collided with a minibus carrying day labourers, two of whom were 14-year-old girls, to their workplace.
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June 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A truck collided with a minibus carrying day labourers, two of whom were 14-year-old girls, to their workplace.
whats the point of a labour goverment that DOESN'T PROTECT THE LABOURERS!!!!!!
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
Credit: @ednewtonrex.bsky.social for all the resources!
December 17, 2024 at 11:23 PM
whats the point of a labour goverment that DOESN'T PROTECT THE LABOURERS!!!!!!
What's next? Smoke cigarettes responsibly? Pollute needlessly responsibly? Have indentured labourers responsibly? Abuse people responsibly? Exactly.
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
What's next? Smoke cigarettes responsibly? Pollute needlessly responsibly? Have indentured labourers responsibly? Abuse people responsibly? Exactly.
this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.
also this is just straight up nonsense, the Panama Canal cost a lot of lives but they were local labourers and most of them were during the first failed French attempt
"We lost 38k soldiers building it 110 years ago"
Hold on this is your case for why you're entitled to say how to govern it and not, like, for whatever the opposite of that is
Hold on this is your case for why you're entitled to say how to govern it and not, like, for whatever the opposite of that is
December 25, 2024 at 11:42 PM
also this is just straight up nonsense, the Panama Canal cost a lot of lives but they were local labourers and most of them were during the first failed French attempt
Fuel prices soar on back of Iran war, leaving Yemeni labourers with no work https://aje.news/742m6e
July 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Fuel prices soar on back of Iran war, leaving Yemeni labourers with no work https://aje.news/742m6e
Actually, *whips out the Statute of Labourers 25 Edw. 3 Stat. 2 (Eng. 1351)*
Ever since King Henry III rolled out the Communist Manifesto at Westminster in 1226.
July 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Actually, *whips out the Statute of Labourers 25 Edw. 3 Stat. 2 (Eng. 1351)*