Sunday, September 26, 2010

 

CANADIAN LABOUR WINNIPEG:
THE WINNIPEG WOBBLY ISSUE #5:

Hot of the press the Winnipeg Wobbly Issue #5. Here's the story from the Winnipeg Wobbly Blog, the local organ of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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Winnipeg Wobbly Newsletter #5

Fresh for the Radical Bookfair, check out the newest edition of our newsletter, the Winnipeg Wobbly! Included in this edition:


•The Coming Insurrection at the University of Manitoba
•Winnipeg Municipal Elections: "If voting changed anything it would be illegal"
•Jimmy Johns Workers Join IWW in Increase Minimum wage pay
•IWW Convention 2010 Report
•No to Bill94

Click Here For The Winnipeg Wobbly Vol. 1 Issue 5

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Monday, May 03, 2010

 

LOCAL EVENTS- WINNIPEG
STARBUCKS UNION SPEAKER:
Coming up next Saturday May 8 a representative of the IWW's Starbucks Union will be speaking at the downtown library. The Starbucks Union has been fighting for years to unionize the workers on whose backs the trendy Starbucks chain is built. Come out and hear all about it. Here's the details.
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Starbucks Workers Union Speaking Tour
Type: Informational Meeting
Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010
Time: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: 2nd Floor Millenium Library (Anhang Room) - 251 Donald Street, Winnipeg MB

Description.
Come out and learn more about the experiences of Starbucks workers across North America who are organizing unions in their workplaces. Erik Forman of the Twin Cities General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World and Starbucks Workers Union will be speaking.
This public event is FREE but donations towards the SWU are greatly appreciated.

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

 
Of Course
CANADIAN LABOUR-WINNIPEG:
THE WINNIPEG WOBBLY ISSUE NUMBER 3:
yes the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) still exists here in Winnipeg Manitoba. Here's the announcement of the third edition of their new newsletter from the Winnipeg Wobbly Blog.
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Winnipeg Wobbly Newsletter #3:
Check out the newest edition of our newsletter, the Winnipeg Wobbly! Included in this edition:

**Maple Leafs Labour Abuses in Brandon
**Book Review: Pubs, Pulpits & Prairie Fires
**IWW/NSG ‘Holidarity Forever’ Mixer a Major Success (Of course-Molly was there )
**Rebel Workers’ Guide Part 3: Principles for Organizers
**Committee Report: News from the General Defense Committee
Click Here For The Winnipeg Wobbly Vol. 1 Issue 3

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

 

LOCAL NEWS-WINNIPEG:
WINNIPEG WOBBLY NEWSLETTER #2:
It's out and about...the latest edition of 'The Winnipeg Wobbly', the newsletter of our local IWW group. Here, from the eponymous Winnipeg Wobbly blog is the announcement and how you can download it for your reading pleasure.
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Winnipeg Wobbly Newsletter #2:
Check out the newest edition of our newsletter, the Winnipeg Wobbly! Included in this edition:

**Lockout at Pine Falls
**Winnipeg's "Strategic Partners”: Water, War and Disaster Profiteers
**Rebel Workers’ Guide Part 2: Organizing your workplace - getting started With Workplace Mapping
**Committee Report: Report from the Winnipeg GMB Literature Department
Click here for the Winnipeg Wobbly volume 1 issue 2!

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

 

LOCAL EVENTS-WINNIPEG:
HOLIDAY MIXER:
This just in. The Winnipeg IWW will be holding a holiday mixer along with the New Socialist Group this coming December 11. Here's the info.
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IWW/NSG Holiday mixer:
marxmas? anarchristmas? revolutionary industrial union-mas?
Host:
Winnipeg IWW
Type:
Party - Holiday Party
Date:
Friday, December 11, 2009
Time:
5:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Black Sheep Diner
540 Ellice
City/Town:
Winnipeg, MB
Description
It's that time of the year again, and you're all cordially invited to the IWW/NSG joint holiday mixer! So come on down, hang out, share stories and songs. There will be plenty of marxmas/anarchstistmas fun!

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Thursday, October 01, 2009

 

CANADIAN LABOUR MANITOBA:
MANITOBA HYDRO STRIKE NOTICE:
The following news item from the CBC comes Molly's way via the Winnipeg Wobbly Blog, the blog of our local branch of the IWW. Keep your eyes trained on said blog for notice of any upcoming solidarity actions. Also look over at the website of IBEW Local 2034 for more on the union point of view on this strike.
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Local: Union hits Manitoba Hydro with strike notice:
This is one we will be watching. We'll post info if the branch do any solidarity support.-----
Union hits Manitoba Hydro with strike notice
 Nearly 3,000 unionized workers have given a 48-hour strike notice to Manitoba Hydro.
After counting the votes on the latest contract offer from the Crown corporation, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) declared Wednesday evening that its workers rejected the offer.

The main issues of dispute in the negotiations have been salaries and length of the contract, said Lauris Kleven, business manager with the IBEW.

Conciliation meetings are scheduled for Thursday but the workers could be on the picket lines as early as Friday. If they do go on strike, it would be the first one to hit the utility in its 48-year history.

Another 1,300 workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, as well as 300 more who belong to the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, are also in negotiations with Hydro. (Seems to me that all three unions should have arranged to go out at once- Molly )

Contracts between Hydro and all three unions have expired, with the IBEW agreement expiring in April.

Hydro spokesperson Glenn Schneider previously told CBC News that the corporation is not prepared to discuss details about the negotiations.

"We are making plans to do what we can to maintain service if a strike were to occur," he said at the time.

Electrical workers, truck drivers, transmission techs, clerical and customer service workers, would be included in a strike.

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

 

LOCAL NEWS-WINNIPEG:
THE WINNIPEG WOBBLY NEWSLETTER:
Just a little while ago I announced the beginning of the Winnipeg Wobbly Blog. Now these busy little beavers have the first edition of their newsletter. The IWW has been present in Winnipeg for many years, but recently they seem to be more active than ever. Good luck to them. Here's the announcement from the Winnipeg Wobbly Blog. Go on over and download the newsletter.
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The Winnipeg Wobbly Newsletter:
 Check out the inaugural issue of our newsletter, the Winnipeg Wobbly! Included in this edition:
**Worker’s Power: Build A Ship
**Statement of the Starbucks Workers Union on its Fifth Anniversary
**Rebel Workers’ Guide Part 1: Organizing at work – the basics
**Committee Report: Events update from the Winnipeg IWW
(And other stuff too-Molly )
Click here for the Winnipeg Wobbly volume 1 issue 1!

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

 

LOCAL NEWS-WINNIPEG:
THE WINNIPEG WOBBLY BLOG:
It's amazing what can happen when your face is turned in another direction. Just in the past few days there's been a new addition to the blogosphere here in Winnipeg- The Winnipeg Wobbly Blog. The new site if, of course, devoted to labour matters and the syndicalist tactics and strategy of the Industrial Workers of the World- the IWW.
The Winnipeg IWW actually has two other sites, one connected to the main IWW listing and the other a Facebook page. Both have been inactive for some time. The blog format is actually something that naturally gives more substance and public accessibility than a social networking site such as Facebook. It also allows for ordered archiving and the addition of sidebars that make some sort of sense. The blog's explnation of the goals of the IWW is a case in point. A hearty Molly meow to the new addition to the Winnipeg libertarian family. May they live long and prosper.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

 

CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-WINNIPEG:
LABOUR AND NATIVE ISSUES:
It's up and coming this June 13, a lecture on the connections between the labour movement and aboriginal issues. Here's the blurb...

The Labour Movement, Indigenous Workers and Indigenous Solidarity:
Presented by the IWW and sponsored by the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre
Host:
IWW Canada
Date:
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Time:
11:00am - 1:00pm
Location:
Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre (3rd floor, above Mondragon)
91 Albert Street
Winnipeg, MB
Phone:
204-298-2250
Email:
alexrevpaterson@gmail.com
Description
This event is part of the Industrial Workers of the World North of 49 Conference, and is graciously sponsored by the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre.
This panel will develop ideas about how to specifically organize with Indigenous workers in our unions. How unions ought to change to accommodate Indigenous workers and how the struggle for industrial democracy is linked to struggles against colonization and for Indigenous Self-determination.
Part of this talk is about the experience and realities of Aboriginal workers, aiming to spark discussion about the direction Aboriginal participation will take to effectively make fundamental change and the assistance unions can give. Revolutionary change and socialist transformation will fail without the successful solution of Aboriginal issues; they are of strategic, necessary importance.
Speaker:
Cheryl-Anne Carr was born in Moosejaw, SK in a Métis family, moving to Winnipeg in 1962. Growing up in a single family with her Mother, a Catholic school teacher, and two brothers, she spent her childhood in the library, gaining an appreciation of storytelling and culture in the process of social change. A mother of six children, she has degrees in education and theatre and certificates in Social Work, psychology, mediation and Anti-Racism Training. After teaching at Nelson House First Nation and The Pas, she worked for thirteen years in community development in Winnipeg’s inner city where she was a strong advocate for Aboriginal rights and did original research used to create Metis Child and Family Services. Cheryl-Anne promotes Métis culture and has worked on family, immigrant rights, anti-war and arts issues. Cheryl-Anne helped develop the first Métis Pavilion at Winnipeg’s Folklorama and the first Aboriginal Village at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. She was an organizer of the 1991 World Health Organization’s Pan American Health Organisation Conference for Indigenous Peoples and was the hemisphere’s Métis representative. She spoke on behalf of the Métis National Council at the First Minister’s Conference with Aboriginal People on the Charlottetown Accord, the only woman to speak at the Conference. She was the first Winnipeg rep for the Metis Women of Manitoba. Through these endeavors she promoted the once forbidden wearing of the sash for women over the shoulder as a sign of nationality. Begun in 1985 it is now considered "traditional". Known as “Auntie” to many in the community, Cheryl-Anne is a drum carrier, story teller, artist and writer. She is particularly pleased with the friendships and bridges she has been able to make in the Muslim community and with activists and youth. “I have never wanted to be anything else but a revolutionary deeply in love with humanity.” She has made dozens of banners for groups and directs and creates art work for Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Catholic Church. Cheryl-Anne is a member of the Winnipeg Labour Defence League and is a former member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Facilitator:
Alex Paterson is a Gichi-Mookomaanag member of the IWW who comes from colonially granted Haudenosaunee territory on the North Shore of the Great Lakes. His Grandmother grew up on the Prairies. Alex just arrived here in the autumn from the eastern portion of Anishinaabe Akiing . He currently resides in the West-End of Winnipeg. Alex is a Masters student and teaching assistant in Aboriginal Governance at the University of Winnipeg. Alex is also a member of Winnipeg Copwatch a group dedicated to fighting the criminalization of the working class and oppressed groups such as Indigenous peoples, sex workers and the homeless.

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Sunday, February 01, 2009

 


LOCAL EVENTS-WINNIPEG:

NEW IWW SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE IN WINNIPEG:

There's a new Facebook networking site for members and sympathizers of the IWW here in Winnipeg. The site is located at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51644555457 . Here's the lowdown.

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Winnipeg IWW:
Description:
We are the Winnipeg General Membership Branch (GMB) of the Industrial Workers of the World.Our meetings are held at 5:30pm, on the second Thursday of the month, at the Workers' Organizing Resource Centre (WORC), which is on the Mezzanine level of 280 Smith Street.
Contact Info
Website:
http://www.iww.org/branches/Canada/Winni...
Location:
Winnipeg, MB

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Monday, November 03, 2008

 

CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-WINNIPEG:
THREE WINNIPEG WOBBLY EVENTS UPCOMING:
The local branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) are busy little beavers this season. Here are the announcements for three upcoming events to be held soon down at the Mondragon (91 Albert St.) and the Workers' Organizing Resource Centre(280 Smith St.).
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Starlight on the Rails-A Tribute to Utah Phillips:
Event Info
Host:
Winnipeg IWW
Type:
Music/Arts - Performance
Time and Place
Date:
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Time:
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:
Mondragon
91 Albert Street:
City/Town:
Winnipeg, MB
Contact Info
Phone:
204-478-1261
Email:
anarchamama@gmail.com
Description
Join the Winnipeg IWW All Star Orchestra for a night of songs and stories celebrating the life and legacy or Bruce "Utah" Phillips. Admission sliding scale $5 suggested donation.
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Wobblies and Zapatistas:
A lecture and discussion with Andrej Grubacic
Host:
Winnipeg IWW
Type:
Education - Lecture
Time and Place
Date:
Friday, December 5, 2008
Time:
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Mondragon
91 Albert Street:
City/Town:
Winnipeg, MB
Contact Info
Phone:
204-478-1261
Email:
anarchamama@gmail.com
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Organizer Training Workshop:
Host:
Winnipeg IWW
Type:
Education - Workshop
Time and Place
Start Time:
Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 10:00am
End Time:
Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 4:00pm
Location:
Workers Organizing Resource Centre
280 Smith St
City/Town:
Winnipeg, MB
Contact Info
Phone:
204-478-1261
Email:
anarchamama@gmail.com
Description
Erik Davis of the Twin Cities IWW General Membership Branch will be facilitating a free two day organizer training workshop. The training will cover the entire union process from engaging co-workers up to negotiating a contract. This is a very participatory training and is open to all who are interested. The training will run Dec 6th and 7th from 10 am to 4 pm.
*Childcare will be provided for this event.

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