Industrial Worker - Issue #1708, September 2008

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Wed, 2008-09-03

Headlines:

  • South Korea orders arrests of union leaders
  • Mall of America Starbucks baristas join IWW
  • US working poor lose ground in Midwest, Northeast US

Featured Articles:

  • Reader's Soapbox: IWWs remember Utah Phillips
  • Providence IWW ral

Fear Grips Migrants After Mississippi Plant Raid

LAUREL, Miss. - A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again.

Iowa Town Turned into “Open-Air Prison”

Syndicated from Sumoud

Wives of Men Arrested in Largest Immigration Raid in US History Forbidden to Work...or Leave.

A First in BC: Foreign Farm Workers Unionize

By Tom Sandborn - August 21, 2008

For the first time, foreign workers imported to pick B.C. crops have been allowed to join a union...Migrant workers at Greenway Farms in Surrey have voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) of Canada. The historic certification was granted with the support of more than 75 per cent of the roughly 40 affected workers. Never before had B.C.'s Labour Relations Board approved a union to represent [migrant] workers...

International Solidarity Commission Monthly Update Bulletin (August 2008)

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Thu, 2008-08-21

Greetings from the International Solidarity Commission (ISC) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and welcome to the fourth digest of our monthly international news letter.

The purpose of this newsletter is to keep our allies around the world informed of our activities, solidarity campaigns, and relevant international labour struggles.

[Vancouver] Vlogging Resistance, Creating new forms of alternative media

2008-08-22 19:00
2008-08-22 22:00
Etc/GMT

Cafe Rebelde presents:
http://otravancouver.resist.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/vlogg...

Friday August 22, 7 pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway at Kingsway Ave. Vancouver

“Don’t Hate the Media, Create Alternatives”

short video documentaries, presented by the documentary film-makers
and the aliveinmexico.org collective

*

BC Liberals Take from People with Disabilities Based on IQ

by Bill Tieleman | Straight Goods

"I firmly believe that ordinary British Columbians would not want their government to act in such a cruel manner, which is why this has been done so secretively." — Disability activist Dawn Steele

Young adults with serious developmental disabilities and an IQ even a point above 70 will be cut off from government help.

Toronto: Immigrant Hotel Workers Rising

Syndicated from Dominion Paper
Unite Here's forays into community activism are what most set it apart from other unions. Photo: Unite Here

Hotel union strikes, rallies and demands social change; gets contracts

Solidaridad Issue #7 Out Now

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Tue, 2008-08-19

Featuring:
  • 400 Truckers in Stockton, California strike the industry
  • Spain: 'What's going on in Starbucks?' CNT member fired
  • Forum on industrial organizing with the IWW in Chile
  • Barrick Gold in Pascua Lama, Chile

Resistance 2010: No Olympics on Stolen Native Land, Disrupt & Abolish the G8 & SPP

Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada" have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some organizers affiliated with the People's Global Action Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance 2010", linking anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the day-to-day systems and institutions of power and oppression they represent.

Landmark Wal-Mart Ruling Released by Quebec Arbitrator

CBC News | Agreement 'incompatible' with company's way of doing business: spokesman

A Quebec arbitrator has imposed a collective agreement on Wal-Mart for the first time in the world's largest retailer's history.

Free Trade and Labour in a Scientific Society

"In the old days it was expected that about half the children in a family would die before they grew up; this involved pain, illness, and sorrow to the mother, often great suffering to the children, and a waste of natural resources in the care of children who never lived to become productive." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

Interview: International Union of Sex Workers

Syndicated from Dominion Paper

Ian Sinclair at the Morning Star...did an interesting interview with "Catherine, a prostitute, dominatrix and activist with the International Union of Sex Workers..."

"...[W]e didn't go out and rescue the miners, take them away and give them a wash, and say ‘come and do this you will be much happier'. We gave them rights, we gave them bargaining power."


IWW Rally Marks Bitter Anniversary

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Tue, 2008-08-12

From The Providence Journal

By David Scharfenberg

Journal Staff Writer

Bangladesh: Garment Workers Wildcat and Riot After Workers Beaten

Syndicated from Libcom

Bangladesh Garment Workers RiotBangladesh Garment Workers RiotThousands of workers from neighbouring factories rioted in solidarity at a garment factory where hundreds of (mainly) women had been fired without pay and two were beaten by private security.