Carlsberg workers walk off job to retain right to drink beer at work
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Apr 9 2010 09:09
On April 8 2010, 800 Carlsberg factory workers walked off the job after new management policies tighten restrictions on beer drinking at work. Carlsberg's truck drivers have followed in sympathy.
Movement for Living Wages, Community Space, Organizing Rights Grows at Queens Center Mall
Submitted by Retail Action P... on Mar 9 2010 21:59
The coalition fighting for living wages and community space at the Queens Center Mall confronted the mall owner, the Macerich Company, today demanding a meeting to begin discussions on how to transform the publicly subsidized poverty wage center into a responsible development that pays employees a living wage and benefits the community.
Flexing muscles at Flax: Anatomy of service sector organising
Maxine Holz and Lucius Cabins interview two workers at a small art supplies firm in San Francisco about a unionisation attempt in 1986.
The Making of a Bad Attitude: An Abridged History of my Wage Slavery
Tales of toil and occasional termination from offices and stores in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s by Lucius Cabins for Processed World.
Urgent Call for International Solidarity: FAU Berlin Banned As Union
Submitted by neoclassic on Dec 19 2009 02:10
As of yesterday, December 11, 2009, FAU Berlin (FAU-B) has essentially been banned as a union. The decision was made by the Berlin Regional Court (Landgericht Berlin) without a hearing. FAU-B was not even informed that the Neue Babylon GmbH – which is involved in a labor dispute with FAU-B – had started legal proceedings against them. The court’s decision goes beyond merely taking away FAU-B’s rights as a union within the Babylon cinema. From this point on they are no longer allowed to call themselves a union!
Marx on the piss; a London pub crawl with Karl Marx in the late 1850s - Wilhelm Liebknecht
Submitted by Red Marriott on Dec 18 2009 17:12
An account by Liebknecht of a smashing drunken evening in London town, written some 40 years after the event...
Flaum Workers Attempt to Return to Work
Submitted by StephNJ on Nov 26 2009 05:10
Update on the NYC foodstuffs campaign: workers at Flaum attempt to return to work this morning.
Employee sabotage in a copy shop
Alan, a shop clerk's account of unofficial wage enhancement in a Minneapolis photocopy outfit.
Racist comments spark walkout, sit-in at chicken proccessing plant
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Sep 4 2009 17:42
Racist comments by security guards have led to wildcat action at Two Sisters Foods in Smethwick, UK.
Protests in south-east China force repeal of new tax law
Submitted by Spartacus on Jul 10 2009 12:45
The Chinese state news service, Xinhua, reported on the 16th of June that violent protests in the south-east province of Jiangxi had forced authorities to repeal a new tax law.
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