Submitted on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 2:29pm
Finally on 17 March, staff receive an email from Head of Adult Skills and Learning, Chris Minter, who is “pleased to announce” certain details of the privatisation of Leicester Adult Education College.
Minter tells us that this is “an exciting new opportunity to diversify the use of the college's facilities and income streams and will provide an excellent resource that fits well with our strategic priorities around employability.” In this new multi-agency initiative, Highcross Development Employment Hub is IN, Art and Design is OUT! Art and Design staff will be moved to inappropriate accommodation, some of these workers may well lose their jobs. So, non-vocational education gets the boot, while the kind of jobs training and advice which can be placed literally anywhere in the city gets prime position at the college.
Submitted on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 2:22pm
You don’t need to be
Sherlock Holmes to figure out that something rotten is going on at Leicester Adult Education College.
With job losses; staff being re-located; skilled people disappearing;
restructuring, with staff having to do more than one job; people who’ve left not
being replaced� it all adds up to one thing - Leicester Adult Education College
is being set up to fail.
The Incredible Shrinking
College
We’ve seen courses being
streamlined, other courses disappearing.
We’ve already seen the closure and privatisation of the Creative Writing School.
The Art
Department is visibly
shrinking with the loss of one of its three rooms, and now the loss of yet
another.
Saatchi & Saatchi, it
isn’t!
Submitted on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 3:12pm
Announcing the 2008 IWW Organizing Summit - Toronto, Ontario - April 18, 19, & 20
Registration is On Now!
The second IWW Organizing Summit has arrived and is set to explode!
As the IWW engages in more and more workplace battles, our vision for
the future must keep pace with our daily struggles. Our resolve is deeper and our wits keener than ever.
Make sure your branch sends a strong delegation and make sure you're on it! The 2008 Organizing Summit is on the scene and features practical trainings and discussions to build our skills; strategic sessions and industry break-outs to enhance our analysis and plot out the struggle; and visionary all-Summit conversations to prepare us
for the future.
Don't miss:
- Sustaining your Solidarity Union;
- Militancy in contracted shops;
- Race, gender, and sexuality in organizing;
- Success and failure in recent IWW campaigns;
- Industrial organizing beyond the GMB;
- Targeting producer market businesses; and
- The IWW's future in the present.
Break-outs by industry to feature groups of
- Food Workers (iu460),
- Retail Workers (iu660),
- Education Workers (iu620),
- Health Care and Social Service Workers (iu610),
- Transportation Workers (dept 500),
- Construction Workers (dept 300), and more!
Hosted by one of the IWW's most dynamic branches, the Toronto IWW anticipates a blow out 2008 Organzing Summit with IWWs from all
overthe continent and farther afield.
Download a registration form
For more details contact - iwwtoronto [at] gmail.com
Submitted on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 12:06am
Trabajador@s Mexican@s denuncian TLCAN, abusos laborales
por Mike Pesa
Trabajador@s Mexican@s de la Coalición por Justicia en las Maquiladoras (CJM) están de una gira co-patrocinada por los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo (IWW). Están viajando por América del Norte, compartiendo su perspectiva de primera mano de los efectos de TLCAN y su lucha por la justicia en las fábricas y colonias populares del norte de México. La gira se centra en un día de acción el 13 de marzo en Detroit en contra del Key Safety Systems, un fabricante de partes automotrices, y sus clientes corporativos, inclusive Ford, General Motors y Hyundai. Arrancó la gira en Filadelfia el 4 de marzo y el IWW hospedó a l@s trabajador-organizadores Israel Monroy y Perla Cruz. En febrero, se le despidió ilegalmente a Cruz de la fábrica del Key Safety Systems en Valle Hermoso, México (cerca de la frontera de Texas) por organizar a un comité de trabajadores.
Submitted on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 4:37pm
From - starbucksunion.org
Seattle, WA- As shareholders arrive at the Starbucks
Annual Meeting today, members of the IWW Starbucks
Workers Union and their supporters will greet them
with leaflets highlighting the economic hardships
faced by workers at the company and offering the
workers' perspective on how to fix the recent plunge
in its stock price.
"Maintaining a long-term, well-paid workforce is the
key to lasting success at Starbucks," said Lucas
Carter, a member of the IWW in Seattle. "If workers
don't get enough work hours every week and they are
struggling to pay the bills, how can management expect
them to serve coffee with a smile?"
