Women in the cleaning sector and hotel-restaurant industry: syndicalist conversations
The purpose of these interviews is to provide an insight into the situation and the struggles of female workers in the cleaning sector and the hotel-restaurant industry. To this end, we have met cleaning and catering trade union members of the CNT-Solidarité Ouvrière in the Paris region.
The Corporation (Documentary)
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 23 2012 23:16
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.
“What do you do for a living?”
Submitted by Recomposition on Jul 12 2011 22:15
A tale of toil by Frank Edgewick, a guest services agent in an American hotel.
Day of Solidarity: Portland, Seattle & San Francisco
Submitted by Hieronymous on May 9 2011 04:06
On 29 April 2011 pickets took place in 3 West Coast cities in solidarity with workers at San Francisco's Hotel Frank.
1974: Cedar Rapids Strike Continues
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 19 2010 02:27
Description of a Cedar Rapids, Iowa hotel strike in 1974. From Free Flowing (December 1974 Volume 2 Number 1).
Pearl Continental Workers End Sit-in, Hunger Strike as Crisis Forces Management Response
Submitted by Jason Cortez on Mar 24 2010 11:19
Two hundred union members occupying the basement of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel ended their 25-day sit-in on Saturday night, March 20 when a direct representative of the hotel's owner directly intervened in the conflict for the first time ever in the more than 8-year history of the conflict.
China: three days of rioting over suspicious death
Submitted by Spartacus on Jul 10 2009 15:06
Residents of the city of Shishou in the central province of Hubei fought police and set fire to a hotel after authorities labeled the death of a chef at a hotel a “suicide”.
Jamaican labour minister intervenes to try and avert hotel strike
Submitted by Ed on Apr 25 2007 00:45
Labour Minister Derrick Kellier has scheduled a meeting for tomorrow with contractors, as well as the two major trade unions representing the more than 2,000 workers at the Fiesta Hotel site in Hanover, in light of a threat by disgruntled workers to lock down the project.
Iraqi hotel workers win unpaid wages
Submitted by Ed on Mar 13 2007 11:57
The workers of Sheraton hotel, Baghdad, went on strike for two days last week demanding their overdue salaries and other unpaid benefits.
Murder of hotel worker leads to widespread protest in western China
Submitted by Ed on Jan 26 2007 12:19
A small regional town in Sichuan province in western China has become the latest site for the vast number of protests occurring across the country in response to people’s discontent with rampant corruption and government impunity.
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