Submitted on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 3:12pm
Announcing the 2008 IWW Organizing Summit - Toronto, Ontario - April 18, 19, & 20
Registration is On Now!
The second IWW Organizing Summit has arrived and is set to explode!
As the IWW engages in more and more workplace battles, our vision for
the future must keep pace with our daily struggles. Our resolve is deeper and our wits keener than ever.
Make sure your branch sends a strong delegation and make sure you're on it! The 2008 Organizing Summit is on the scene and features practical trainings and discussions to build our skills; strategic sessions and industry break-outs to enhance our analysis and plot out the struggle; and visionary all-Summit conversations to prepare us
for the future.
Don't miss:
- Sustaining your Solidarity Union;
- Militancy in contracted shops;
- Race, gender, and sexuality in organizing;
- Success and failure in recent IWW campaigns;
- Industrial organizing beyond the GMB;
- Targeting producer market businesses; and
- The IWW's future in the present.
Break-outs by industry to feature groups of
- Food Workers (iu460),
- Retail Workers (iu660),
- Education Workers (iu620),
- Health Care and Social Service Workers (iu610),
- Transportation Workers (dept 500),
- Construction Workers (dept 300), and more!
Hosted by one of the IWW's most dynamic branches, the Toronto IWW anticipates a blow out 2008 Organzing Summit with IWWs from all
overthe continent and farther afield.
Download a registration form
For more details contact - iwwtoronto [at] gmail.com
Submitted on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 4:37pm
From - starbucksunion.org
Seattle, WA- As shareholders arrive at the Starbucks
Annual Meeting today, members of the IWW Starbucks
Workers Union and their supporters will greet them
with leaflets highlighting the economic hardships
faced by workers at the company and offering the
workers' perspective on how to fix the recent plunge
in its stock price.
"Maintaining a long-term, well-paid workforce is the
key to lasting success at Starbucks," said Lucas
Carter, a member of the IWW in Seattle. "If workers
don't get enough work hours every week and they are
struggling to pay the bills, how can management expect
them to serve coffee with a smile?"
Submitted on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 2:36pm
By Mike Pesa
Mexican factory workers from the Coalition for Justice in the
Maquiladoras (CJM) are on an IWW-cosponsored truth-telling tour
through North America, sharing their first-hand perspective on the
effects of NAFTA and their struggle for justice in the factories and
slums of northern Mexico. The tour is focused around a March 13 day
of
action in Detroit against automotive parts manufacturer Key Safety
Systems and its corporate customers, including Ford, General Motors,
and Hyundai. The tour kicked off in Philadelphia on March 4th where
the IWW hosted worker-organizers Israel Monroy and Perla Cruz. In
February, Cruz was illegally fired from Key Safety Systems' plant in
Valle Hermoso, Mexico (near the Texas border) for organizing a
workers' committee.
On Wednesday, March 5th Monroy and Cruz went to New York City for a
day to meet with IWW members and allies there. While in New York they
participated in the NYC branch's protest of Panera Bread, which is
being targeted for its unfair labor practices and union busting.
They
were accompanied by Justin Vitiello of the Philadelphia branch, who
acted as their translator throughout the week. Returning to
Philadelphia, the visitors attended an IWW-sponsored protest at
Springfield Hyundai, where the manager accepted a letter urging
Hyundai to put pressure on Key Safety Systems. The protest was joined
by Irish activist Andrew Flood who was on a speaking tour of his own.
Following the protest, Monroy and Cruz spoke to a class at Temple
University. Interest was so great that students' questions had to be
cut off at one point.
Submitted on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 1:40pm
Con:
- Domando Wild Edibles
- Crónica sobre viaje con Coalición Por Justicia en la Maquiladoras
- Informe de la Comisión de Solidaridad Internacional
- Perú: La Industria de la Construcción, la Tragedia y la Venganza
PDF File
Submitted on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 1:35pm
Featuring:
- Taming Wild Edibles
- Report on IWW Delegation to the Maquiladoras
- Peru: The Construction Industry -Tragedy and Vengance
- Report of the International Solidarity Commission
PDF File
