All-out strike and clashes at Ikea plant
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Nov 3 2012 10:43
Four workers have been hospitalized after riots took place in front of the gates of the Ikea plant in Piacenza this morning (November 2).
Bangladeshi workers fight back against corrupt bosses
Submitted by working class s... on Oct 23 2012 13:28
15,000 Bangladeshi garment workers blockade a key highway in protest at unpaid wages. Meanwhile, bosses at the company – who supply Primark and New Look – are arrested on embezzlement charges in the country’s largest ever corruption case
Revolt of the iSlaves - More labour unrest at China's Foxconn factories
Submitted by labournet.tv on Oct 17 2012 23:26
Two incidents of mass unrest at Foxconn factories made worldwide headlines in late September and early October 2012. The leading customer Apple had just released a new version of his main product, the iPhone 5, so work pressure in the factories was high – and so was worldwide attention.
IASR interviewed by Radio Libertaire
IASR (Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative from Romania) interviewed by Radio Libertaire at the International Anarchist Gathering in St. Imier, Switzerland.
Workers clash with police outside the Italian industry ministry
Submitted by working class s... on Sep 10 2012 21:31
Several hundred aluminium workers in Rome have clashed with the police during a protest against the proposed closure of a loss making Sardinian smelting plant.
Hired goons target worker’s rights groups in China
Submitted by working class s... on Sep 1 2012 11:56
On Thursday, approximately sixty unidentified goons carrying hammers broke into the offices of a workers advocacy group in Shenzhen, China.
The tyranny of the clock - George Woodcock
Short piece on the manufacture of accurate time and how the world became a more structured place, a worser one, overnight.
Resisting plant shutdowns
A review of 3 books on factory closures in the U.S. during the 1980s.
Sacked Remploy workers occupy the company head office
Submitted by working class s... on Aug 23 2012 16:20
Earlier today a group of sacked Remploy workers occupied the companies head offices in Leicester
Class-conscious machinists: "Stormy petrels of west coast labor"
Submitted by IDP on Aug 22 2012 04:56
Sister machinist unions, San Francisco's Lodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists and Oakland's Local 1304 of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee (which left the IAM over a wildcat strike in 1936), had a national reputation for militancy; Lodge 68 had more strikes during World War II than all other Bay Area unions combined. Along with Local 1304, they accrued this strike record in open defiance of the National War Labor Board, who were backed by the FBI, the Office of Economic Stabilization in the White House, a Navy Vice-Admiral, the War Manpower Commission, the collective bosses, who in turn were supported by the CIO, ILWU, and Communist Party.
