Report-back from Wed. Dec. 10 IWW NYC solidarity action w/ UE strikers
Submitted on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 8:17pm
A dozen members and supporters of the Industrial Workers of the World in
NYC entered two Bank of America locations in Manhattan yesterday to demand that
the bailed-out financial giant do the right thing in the Republic sit-down
strike. Workers served a demand letter on Branch management and disrupted
business as usual with chants of, "you got bailed out, we got sold out." At a
third Bank of America location, management had been tipped off, and the
demonstrators were stopped at the door by senior security personnel. The
security personnel accepted the demand letter, stated "no comment", and then
retreated into the bank as demonstrators erupted in chanting.
The NYC Wobblies pledged full and lasting solidarity with the UE brothers
and sisters as they struggled for fair compensation and for control of their
factory.
NOTE: While the occupation of the plant has now ended after severance and
vacation pay was won, the struggle for worker-control of the plant
continues.