The author of this article refers to the IWW's "violent" past, but he fails to note that the violence was caused by the employing class in reaction to the IWW at least 99% of the time. Otherwise the article gives the IWW fair coverage. . .
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Radical Union Eyes Queens’ LaborersSubmitted by intexile on szo, 01/21/2006 - 6:02am.The author of this article refers to the IWW's "violent" past, but he fails to note that the violence was caused by the employing class in reaction to the IWW at least 99% of the time. Otherwise the article gives the IWW fair coverage. . . By ANDREW MOESEL - Queens Tribune, January 19, 2006 ![]() |
(From OpEdNews.Com) - Squeezing the Work Force, Remaking Unions in the Workers' ImageSubmitted by intexile on p, 01/20/2006 - 5:49am.By Charles Sullivan. The views expressed here are the author's alone.
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Faced With IWW Pressure, Starbucks Releases Sub-Par Health Care NumberSubmitted by intexile on cs, 01/19/2006 - 4:35am.Coffee Giant Has Lower Percentage of Insured Workers Than Wal-Mart
"The Starbucks socially responsible image is all smoke and mirrors. Customers always ask, 'you get company health care, right?'" said Pete Montalbano, an IWW barista. "Starbucks employees, many of whom are uninsured or on Medicaid, knew the answer to that all along. Only now, so does everyone else." |
Direct Action Gets the Goods! - IWW Chicago Victory for Unpaid WorkerSubmitted by intexile on v, 01/15/2006 - 5:42pm.By "Free Radical" - Originally posted at Chicago Indymedia.
The highly visible protest began at 8 AM, with a small but dedicated group of picketers banging bucket drums, shaking noisemakers, passing out leaflets, and carrying signs reading, “Ideal Car Wash Cheats Workers,” and “An Injury to One is an Injury to All!” Notably, one picketer dressed in a clown costume held a sign reading, “Ideal Bosses Are Bozos!” to mock the clown Ideal usually uses to attract customers. |
Labour Website of the Year 2005 - IWW Comes in 6thSubmitted by intexile on v, 01/15/2006 - 5:41pm.Well the results are in. Although disappointing that the IWW didn't win the competition for its centenary year, it is notable that the IWW beat all AFL-CIO union sites hands down.
This year, among the top 10 websites we have four from Canada, two from the USA, and one each from South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. These ten websites come from unions representing a total of nearly 3,000,000 workers. The winning site this year received more votes than any other site ever received in one of our annual competitions. |
The Wobblies Resurface in New York, Targeting Starbucks and FreshDirectSubmitted by intexile on cs, 01/05/2006 - 3:02am.By DANIELA GERSON - Staff Reporter of the New York Sun, January 4, 2006
"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. |
America's Least Trusted - How a Clermont stripper ended up under FBI surveillanceSubmitted by intexile on szo, 12/31/2005 - 3:32pm.By Coley Ward - creativeloafing.com, December 28, 2005
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." |
A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITYSubmitted by argyris on szo, 12/31/2005 - 7:03am. Fellow workers,
In the heat of this new battle, European & Greek dockworkers call the maritime unions around the world to awake and support their strike by sending a solidarity statement or organise an action in their local work places. This strike is an attempt to reignite militancy and to underscore the necessity of international workers’ organisation for a revolutionary industrial unionism in today’s global economy.
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