From the International Transport Federation (ITF) a federation of Dockworker unions. It’s important to see the direct power of workers to refuse to do certain work, but also to see that it’s political power that OKs direct action. •••••• Chinese arms ship latest: unions mobilise to stop weapons transfer 21 April 2008 Global union...
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Zimbabwe Arms Ship – Update
Miners’ Wildcat in Mexico
(Labor Notes) More than 250,000 miners and steelworkers from central to northern Mexico walked off the job March 1-3 in wildcat strikes at 70 companies that virtually paralyzed the mining industry. While the strike has ended, this may be the only first act in an unfolding drama that could challenge Mexican employers, the corrupt...
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SEIU/Labor Notes – Update
The WSP has just received a copy of a letter sent to Marchel Smiley, the President of the African-American Caucus (AFRAM) of the Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU). The letter, signed by 4 SEIU-AFRAM officers accuses the SEIU staff of inviting only African-American SEIU members and their families to a "rally". The rally was...
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Breaking News: SEIU invades Labor Notes
10:30 PM Saturday April 12 The Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) has sent in several bus loads of members to disrupt the annual meeting of Labor Notes in Detroit. The Labor Notes conference is one of the most important gatherings of rank and file labor activists in Canada and the US. Friends of the...
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Wage Slavery in America: 90¢ an Hour and -20°F
“This video is about a Red Pill reporters trip to southern Wyoming and the worker abuses he found in the sheep herder camps. All workers were here legally on H2A work Visa’s and the guides for the Red Pill were former Chilean sheep herders who wanted to speak out about the abuse they went...
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Safety In The Workplace
“Working Wounded – Board Shields Unsafe Job Sites” blared the headline of The Toronto Star, February, 16, 2008. The subheading said it all: “Workplace safety rules allow companies to keep spotless ratings even if poorly trained temps are injured and killed”. The article by Moira Welsh explained that a loophole in the rules of...
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Africa’s Chinese strikers
Labor conflicts involving overseas Chinese workers have become more frequent in recent years due to the increasing flow of Chinese nationals to foreign labor markets . Two Chinese workers were killed and four were injured when the strikers, reported to number between 100 and 200, confronted Equatorial Guinean security forces who intervened when the...
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A man labours in hell.
“A man labours in hell.” So opens an article on the work of artist Darren Almond (Guardian Weekly, 25 January), referring to his video about workers who extract sulphur from the Kawah Ijen volcano in eastern Java. Imagine the scene. We are standing on the inner slope of the volcano’s crater. Below lies a...
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Work as it is (and could be)
“That would never work!” A typical response, I imagine, to the description of a socialist society, where people work because they want to, on a voluntary basis. Such a society would not work, we are told, because no one in it would do any work. However, that view of work as, well, work...
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Post-Holiday Reality in Capitalism
While the holidays are supposed to be a time to gather together with family members and reflect not only on the accomplishments of the past year but on the possibilities of the future, to many it is a crushing reminder of just how much this brutal system we live under can make our lives...
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