Submitted on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 7:16pm
By Ryan Faulkner - September 18, 2012
Domino’s Pizza sucks. Not just in the sense that it treats its workers heinously, the pizza itself is of a low quality. Eating a slice of Domino’s pizza is a similar experience to swallowing a salt shaker. So its not surprising that on a Saturday night in Berkeley, the Domino’s storefront was dead. A delivery car would run out the back every 15 minutes or so, but business was not booming.
Us Wobblies posted up at a Chinese restaurant next door, waiting for 6 PM, when our demonstration was set to begin. We had committed to stage an action in solidarity with Domino’s Delivery Drivers in Australia, who have received an arbitrary wage cut of 19%, a punishment for the 23 delivery drivers who raised complaints over a trend of paychecks that came up short of their promised salaries.
The consensus in the Chinese restaurant was that this was going to be a git ’er done and out kind of deal. Walk around with signs in front of the location for a couple hours, chant some angry chants, and flyer passersby. Hopefully, by the end of the night, we’d cost Domino’s a few customers, get the workers thinking about the stability of their own wages, and bother the boss enough that they’d give corporate management a call.
But we got so much more.
Submitted on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 7:03pm
Headlines:
- For The Works: Report From The 2012 IWW General Convention
- Solidarity With Murdered South African Miners
- Prisoners Stage Hunger Strike In North Carolina
Features:
- The NCAA: The Boss’s Dream, The Worker’s Nightmare
- Workers' Power: A Look At Wobblies And Unfair Labor Practices
- Class, Struggle And The State
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Submitted on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 6:53pm
Headlines:
- Work People's College: Reviving An Old Tradition Of Educating IWW Agitators
- Milwaukee Pizza Factory Workers Strike
- Prisoners Stage Hunger Strike In North Carolina
Features:
- Work People's College: Reviving An Old Tradition Of Educating IWW Agitators
- Self-Employment, Or The Illusion Of Freedom
- International Solidarity: Spotlight On Africa
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Submitted on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 6:41pm
Headlines:
- Snapshots Of The Student Movement In Montréal
- Wobblies Support Fired IWW Jimmy John’s Worker In Florida
- Workers Strike At French Telecommunications Subcontractor In Casablanca
Features:
- Workers' Power: The Wages System
- Organizing In The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
- A Wobbly Report From Greece
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Submitted on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 11:24am
Imagery of the working class has long been monopolized by drawings of white, muscle-bound men swinging hammers, but the truth is that the majority of the working class has never been made up of white men. If we seek to create a movemet that captures the whole working class, the imagery that we choose should also reflect the whole of the working class.
Toward Gender Equality (TGE), a committee of the Portland IWW General Membership Branch is putting a call out for submissions for an art showing entitled, "We Are The Working Class." We hope to put together a collection of photos, posters and drawings that truly grasps the diversity of workers (and the work we do) that the working class is made up of.
Origninal Wobbly art would be of preference, but we won't be shy if it's from Wobbly supporters. We hope to have this exhibit up in time for the General Convention, and so are asking for submissions no later than August 20, 2012.
Email: [email protected]
Snail Mail:Portland IWW, C/O TGE, 2249 E Burnside St.Portland, OR 97214
