New York
New York: EZ supply workers go IWW
Deep in the gritty, industrial district of North Brooklyn/Queens, 15 workers of EZ Supply started the new year right by marching to their workplace and demanding that their highly abusive boss sign a petition recognizing the IWW as their union.
Little over a month earlier they had come to the workers’ night at Make The Road by Walking, and told of working long hours without being paid overtime, which ultimately amounted to being paid less than minimum wage. Sometimes the trucks would finally be loaded to the top at 3 p.m., and the workers would be told that all 25 stops in Manhattan had to be made.
'No Contract, No Work' - The 2005 New York City transit strike
Harry Harrington, a New York city MTA Train Operator writes his account and analysis of the strike that shut down New York.
In December 2005, 34,000 New York City transport workers walked out against cuts in benefits and the creation of a two-tier workforce. Their union was fined millions of dollars, and the strike was called off, having won important concessions. So what were the lessons of the action?
In Industrial Worker, February 2006 he wrote:
New York transit strikers reject offer
New York City transit workers rejected bosses' offer after their illegal three-day strike last month.
A tiny margin of just seven votes scuppered the deal, leaving the New York Times to report that angry workers may turn to other forms of direct action, such as wildcat stoppages and slowdowns.
From NYtimes.com on January 22, 2006:
New York Times delivery disrupted by wildcat strike
Today deliveries of some of the US's most popular and influential papers were disrupted by a wildcat strike of the carriers.
A one-day strike by carriers at a distribution contractor for the Chicago Tribune delayed deliveries of the Sunday paper for an estimated 6,000 home delivery customers.
The wildcat strike also affected delivery of Sunday copies of The New York Times and weekend editions of The Financial Times.
The strike that shut down New York
A report and analysis of the strike of New York City transport staff that shut down the city for three days, and brought down all the government's anti-union laws on the workers. Despite this, strikers managed to win important concessions.
New York City’s nearly 34,000 transit workers shut down the country’s largest public transportation system last month in a three-day strike that became a battle between working-class New Yorkers and the bosses, politicians and ruling elite of the city.
NYC transport workers fighting cuts fined
A judge has imposed a $1m (£570,000) per day fine on New York's main transport union for a strike that has brought city transport to a standstill.
34,000 New York City transport workers are on an illegal strike, shutting down the entire city's transit system to oppose benefit cuts, despite large profits. Their Transport Workers Union is now being fined $1m per day that the strike continues.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk:
The 34,000 members of the Transport Workers Union went on strike after talks over their contracts collapsed.
Edelstadt, David, 1866-1892
A short biography of Russian-Jewish anarchist and editor David Edelstadt.
“A great poet and one of the finest types of Anarchist that ever lived.”
- Emma Goldman
Frager, Jack, 1903-1998
A short biography of Ukrainian anarchist and labour activist Jack Frager.
Jack Frager
Born Yankel or Yakov Treiger, 3 January 1903 - Ismeryuka, Ukraine, died 7 March 1998 - USA
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