Submitted on Fri, 02/03/2006 - 2:53am
Industrial Worker - February 2006
The Madison (Wisconsin) General Membership Branch has launched a campaign to organize the 400 or so businesses in the downtown area. The campaign began last Fall by canvassing the district, gathering contacts in dozens of shops, and is now well on the way to mapping the entire district.
The IWW Downtown Workers Union has opened an office at State and Gilman streets, produced a brochure on Workers’ Rights in Madison, and is working to build a strong union presence among these low-paid, hard-working, unorganized workers. They are working to establish new industrial union branches in IUs 640 (restaurant and building service) and 660 (general distribution), and to build an ethos of solidarity unionism that will give these workers the tools to win some of the good things of life.
Submitted on Tue, 01/31/2006 - 5:41am
Στις 20 Νοεμβρίου του 2003 το Ευρωκοινοβούλιο υπό την Ευρωπαϊκή Επίτροπο των Μεταφορών και Ενέργειας Λαγιόλα δε Παλάθιο, απέρριψε την πρώτη πρόταση οδηγίας σχετικά με την απελευθέρωση των λιμενικών υπηρεσιών. Μια κοινοτική οδηγία την οποία δεν υποστηρίζουν λιμενικές αρχές και τα συνδικάτα των εργαζομένων στα λιμάνια.
Submitted on Sun, 01/29/2006 - 5:51am
Fellow workers,
A European strike is organized dying 16 -17 of January 2006 by maritime and dockworkers. The strike will be held in 29 ports of 10 countries throughout Europe. The strikers are against the new European direction, regarding the free sea trade. Greek marine transport workers, along with the solidarity of the antiauthoritarian movement, ship builders union of Perama and Greek Wobblies, will participate in the forthcoming strike by closing the ports in Piraeus, Patra & Thessaloniki.
In the heat of this new battle, European & Greek dockworkers call the maritime unions around the world to awake and support their strike by sending a solidarity statement or organise an action in their local work places. This strike is an attempt to reignite militancy and to underscore the necessity of international workers’ organisation for a revolutionary industrial unionism in today’s global economy.
Submitted on Sun, 01/29/2006 - 2:46am
By Tabitha Chase - Industrial Worker, February 2006
When I awoke on March 17, 2005, I checked my phone and found that I had five calls from three different phone numbers that I did not recognize. All of them were from special agent Dante Jackson of the FBI stating that I “had to call him back.” I immediately called my friend and attorney Ken Driggs, gave him the name of the agent and numbers, and asked him to find out what these calls were about. He called back later that day saying that they “were demanding a compulsory interview, and that should I refuse to schedule one or fail to show up, they would come and pick me up.” We scheduled the appointment for the following day.
