IWW featured in recent edition of Building Bridges Radio (two stories)
Submitted on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 2:51pm
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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
28:18
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Taming Wild Edibles
with
The Industrial Workers of the World
In addition to its own seafood restaurants, Wild Edibles' ware-house provides seafood to some of New York's most famous
eateries including Tavern on the Green and La Goulue. Yet, Wild
Edibles warehouse workers are laboring under illegal and
exploitative conditions.They have filed a class action lawsuit for
unpaid overtime and have joined a labor union, the Industrial
Workers of the World. Wild Edibles has responded with illegal
retaliation including firing nine of the workers. The I.W.W.
demonstrated recently outside one of the companyâs Midtown
restaurants in their campaign for workers rights at Wild Edibles.
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"Wobblies on the Waterfront:
Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia"
with
author Peter Cole
Cole unearths of the hidden history of Local 8 - an interracial union
of Philadelphia longshore workers comprised of mostly African-Americans & Eastern Europeans immigrants affiliated with the
radical Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies). For much of
its time, Local 8 was majority black, always with a cadre of black
leaders. They exercised effective control over the Philadelphia docks
from 1913-22. This was a time when mainstream AFL unions either
excluded African-American workers or relegated them to segregated
Locals. Local 8 was one of the most powerful interracial unions seen
in the U.S. prior to the CIO era.
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