Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες σχετικά με τους Βιομηχανικούς εργάτες στην Ελλάδα και τον ριζοσπαστικό, ακηδεμόνευτο συνδικαλισμό μπορείτε να επικοινωνείτε στο email: [email protected]
Submitted on Fri, 01/13/2006 - 7:05am
ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΟΛΟΥΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΥΡΩΠΑΙΟΥΣ ΛΙΜΕΝΕΡΓΑΤΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΒΙΟΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΟΥΣ ΕΡΓΑΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ (IWW)
Σύντροφοι εργάτες,
Submitted on Thu, 01/05/2006 - 3:02am
By DANIELA GERSON - Staff Reporter of the New York Sun, January 4, 2006
The Wobblies are back. Organizers with the 101-year-old Industrial Workers of the World - a radical union that once included "Big Bill" Haywood, Helen Keller, and "Mother" Mary Harris Jones - recently launched efforts in New York to organize Starbucks, illegal immigrant workers, and the online grocer FreshDirect.
"Abolition of the wage system" is their banner.
Membership, albeit still small, has roughly doubled in the past five years to nearly 2,000 in North America, the union said. In New York City, where it has about 50 or 60 members, there has been a similar rate of growth. Even more significant than an increase in membership, arguably, is the expansion of public actions.
Submitted on Sat, 12/31/2005 - 3:32pm
By Coley Ward - creativeloafing.com, December 28, 2005
Tabby Chase works nights as a dancer at the Clermont Lounge, so she was asleep the morning of Thurs., March 17, when she says FBI Special Agent Dante Jones called her.
Chase says she didn't know what the FBI wanted. When she awoke, it was late afternoon, and she had five messages from three numbers. She says each was from Jones, telling her the FBI needed to ask some questions.
Chase is tall and thin, with hair buzzed to about a quarter-inch, except for long blond bangs that routinely fall in her face. She describes herself as a flaky anarchist, somebody who has an inherent distrust of government and big business but who is "terrible at outreach" and "not involved in any organizing."
Submitted on Thu, 12/22/2005 - 2:33pm
From starbucksunion.org:
As a recipient of support from TWU Local 100 members on our picket lines, it is with great honor that we express our total solidarity with striking transit workers in New York City. We know you are striking not only for your families but also for every working New Yorker.
Corporations, public or private, are concerned with two things: money and power. Since the MTA's last-minute bargaining demand would have saved less money than two day's worth of overtime for cops to patrol struck stations, it follows that power was the element at issue. The two-tier pension scheme the MTA tried to impose had the singular intent of weakening the union. By dividing senior workers from newer workers, two-tier schemes undermine solidarity within a union. They also provide an incentive for the bosses to concoct pretexts to get rid of more senior workers to save money. The supermarket bosses imposed such a two-tier contract on 70,000 striking and locked out grocery workers in 2004. But in 2005, TWU Local 100 and affiliated unions said, "No."
