New York: EZ supply workers go IWW
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 4 2006 10:23
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.
Union steward sacked for wearing a union badge
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 1 2006 11:00
Retail outlet Dunnes has achieved a new low in union-bashing by sacking shop steward Joanne Delaney in November 2005 for wearing a union badge.
Workers at third US Starbucks go union
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 22 2006 10:25
In New York City at the end of last year Starbucks baristas and supporters wearing union pins and hats surrounded the store manager at the Union Square location in Manhattan tonight to announce their membership in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.
Anti church movement demonstration in Hyde Park - Karl Marx
Submitted by libcom on Jan 19 2006 11:25
An account by Karl Marx of a demonstration in Hyde Park, London, against a proposed ban on Sunday trading on June 24, 1855.
Tesco fuel drivers to strike over jobs
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 19 2006 11:16
Transport workers delivering fuel to Tesco forecourts are to stage a two-day strike in a row over jobs.
Collectives in the Spanish revolution - Gaston Leval
Submitted by libcom on Jan 3 2006 16:12
Detailed account of worker-controlled agriculture, industry and public services in revolutionary Spain during the civil war.
Sabotage in a food factory
A short account of a brief and minor rebellion of three bottle stackers, by Patrick, a palletizer.
Worker sabotage in a Honolulu pineapple factory
Everyday sabotage and work-reduction in a Hawaii pineapple plant, by Lance, a pineapple packer.
Worker resistance at a liquor company
An account of resistance at a closing-down alcoholic drinks company by Roy, a shipping clerk.
58 year-old Asda worker sacked for buying rolls
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 16 2005 10:03
Fran Edwards, a 58-year-old employee of ASDA in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, has been sacked for buying some cut-price rolls and having £3 of her own cash in her pocket.
