Industrial Worker - Issue #1740, November 2011

Posted Fri, 11/04/2011 - 3:24pm by IWW.org Editor

Headlines:

  • Occupy Wall Street: Reports & Analysis of a Growing Movement
  • Wobblies Gather For Bi-Annual Assembly In Scotland
  • Community Protects Indigenous Land In Australia

Features:

  • Financial Crisis & the American Working Class
  • The Annual IW Year in (Book) Review
  • In November We Remember Fallen Comrades

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Oakland General Strike - November 2, 2011!

Posted Sat, 10/29/2011 - 12:20am by IWW.org Editor

Get the latest Oakland General Strike news updates - from www.indybay.org

This report was sent by a member of the Bay Area IWW:

I just returned from downtown Oakland. The turnout at the general assembly was overwhelming. The GA was held in the amphitheater of Oscar Grant Plaza.

The entire "seating" area was packed from side to side. The depressed area between it and the stage was packed. The facilitators had to keep requesting that people move back because the stage area was packed full as was the walkway behind it and the City Hall steps.

We put a proposal to the crowd that one week from today we have a shut down and general strike in Oakland. Many concerns were raised - whether we could organize that in time, could we get workers to strike, etc. Boots Riley (of Boots and the Coup - an excellent radical rap group in Oakland) made the point that thousands of union workers are looking for some point of inspiration. Others pointed out that we have to strike when the iron is hot.

In the end, the vote on the proposal went as follows:

  • Yes - 1484
  • Abstain - 76
  • No - 44

If comrades want to spread this message as far and wide as possible, and launch a call for a global general strike/day of action on that date, I think it would be great.

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Albuquerque IWW GMB Resolution in Support of (Un)Occupy Albuquerque

Posted Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:45pm by IWW.org Editor

October 23, 2011

WHEREAS, the working class and the employing class have nothing in common; and

WHEREAS, we are in the throes of a Second Gilded Age; and

WHEREAS, 2011 has been a year of unprecedented working class struggle around the globe; and

WHEREAS, the working people of Albuquerque and New Mexico are standing up as a class against the economic elite;

BE IT RESOLVED the Albuquerque General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World offers its full support to the Occupy movement, locally and worldwide.

Contact: abq [at] iww.org

Industrial Worker - Issue #1739, October 2011

Posted Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:36pm by IWW.org Editor

Headlines

  • Workers Win Big at New York Restaurant Supplier
  • Bay Area Couriers Fight for Living Wage
  • Kansas City Sandwich Shop Workers Organize

Features:

  • Special: Report from the 2011 General Convention
  • Interview: Joe Burns on “Reviving the Strike
  • The Beginnings Of Revolutionary Unionism In Romania

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Richmond GMB Sends Letter of Solidarity To U.S. Postal Workers

Posted Thu, 10/13/2011 - 3:39pm by x370724

Greetings Fellow Workers,

On behalf of our Union, the Richmond, Virginia General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World stand in solidarity with the United States Postal Workers Union and its effort to preserve the peoples post office from further privatization.

In 1967 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a Commission on Postal Reorganization, chaired by AT&T’s Frederick R. Kappel, to “determine whether the postal system as presently organized is capable of meeting the demands of our growing economy and our expanding population.” In June 1968, the Commission found that it was not.[1]