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Baltimore IWW stands in ‪‎solidarity‬ w/ the ‪#‎JusticeForFreddie‬ protests in ‪‎Baltimore‬

Submitted on Mon, 04/27/2015 - 5:27pm

 

Toronto IWW: May 16-17 2015: Organizing 101: Build the Committee Training

Submitted on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 11:29am

Toronto IWW is pleased to announce opening of registration for the Spring 2015 edition of Organizing 101: Build the Committee Training, our crash course on grassroots, direct action-driven solidarity unionism. 

NYC IWW: Beverage Plus, Pay Up!

Submitted on Thu, 04/09/2015 - 10:31am

From WobblyCity.org

Several former workers at Beverage Plus and their supporters visited the company in Maspeth Queens this week to demand that the owner Yun Cho pay the more than $1.2 million owed to the workers from a wage theft lawsuit. Cho was present but did not come out to talk to the workers who then left a letter demanding payment. The company, which has also operated under the names YS Beverage and Grand Beverage, is a distributor in New York City, handling products such as Coca Cola and Poland Spring beverages. It was found liable in 2012 for multiple violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act for unpaid minimum wage and overtime for dozens of workers. The workers are still seeking the payments in court but have also called upon supporters to join their campaign to get the money owed to them. The workers have been long time members of the Brandworkers and NYC Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign to organize and improve conditions in New York City’s food production and distribution sector.

Stay tuned for more actions in support of the Beverage Plus workers!

Industrial Worker - Issue #1773, April 2015

Submitted on Wed, 04/01/2015 - 9:21pm

Headlines:

  • Liverpool IWW Demonstrates For Precarious Workers
  • Syndicalist Union Protests Migrant Worker Exploitation In Berlin
  • Welsh Wobbly Facing Deportation

Features:

  • Unlock The Power Of Metrics To Build Effective Organization
  • The Joe Hill Centenary Takes To The Road
  • Building Ties With Comrades In Mexico

Download a Free PDF of this issue. (Check out the April Fools' Day issue here.)

London IWW Petition: Reinstate the sacked zero-hours workers at Friends House

Submitted on Fri, 03/27/2015 - 2:27pm

Click here to sign the petition!

By the London IWW

3 of us – hospitality workers employed on zero-hour contracts – have lost our jobs. This is at Friends House London, the head office of British Quakers where – despite the organisation’s reputation as a ‘good employer’ – senior managers responded to objections to the use of zero-hour contracts by getting rid of the three remaining workers employed on them!

Two of us were elected Unite the Union workplace representatives, and a third is a Quaker. One worker has been subject to intimidatory disciplinary processes; we all feel we’ve been targeted for being principled and outspoken at work; and our health has suffered. With the support of the London IWW union, we are calling for: