Resistance issue 130, March 2011
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Public Resistance Forces Government U-Turns
Sabotage in Fiat Tychy
Submitted by akai on Feb 11 2011 19:24
300 cars were damaged last night by ticked off workers in Poland's Fiat plant.
Workers in the FIAT factory in Tychy, Poland sabotaged 300 cars last night. The sabotage involved damaging the cars in different ways, for example, by making deep scratches with keys, putting screws into the motors, cutting cables and other types of damage. The managers are now trying to look for the sabotateurs.
How to actually enjoy your incredibly inane and stupid job now and then without becoming a brainwashed zombie
Greta Christina's 30 ways to improve your working life.
"If there's something you've got to do and a way to enjoy it, you'd be a fool to do it any other way."
Thomas Disch, "On Wings of Song"
Bank of America infiltrated!
Two articles, the first about a sabotage prank at the Bank of America, the second about restructuring at the bank and in the white-collar industries in general.
The Swineherd
A tale of toil from a weary legislator's letter writer, by Mark Henkes.
Pigs grunt when they get excited, plunge their curious snouts into mounds of muddy slop, and run with the grace of an obese ex-athlete. I am not a pig. I wish I had the power to appear before a nationwide television audience and tell the nation, the world: I am not a pig. It is true that some of my co-workers whisper that I am a pig, yet I do not grunt.
Paperslutting
Temp worker Stella shares her experiences of sabotage on-the-job.
Skill sharing is the way of the future. This is probably not what Kropotkin envisioned when he wrote Mutual Aid, but I'm going to go ahead and share with you some of what I've learned on the job.
Technopranks: Carving out a message in electronic space
Jesse Drew writes for Processed World magazine on how workers and citizens have used modern technology to assert their humanity, from using subliminal images to blogging.
I knelt to examine the floor, and there it was, in tiny writing, quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or maybe just a fingernail, in the corner where the darkest shadow fell:
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Starring Mr. Green, in the Laundry Room, with the Knife
A tale of toil in a workers' compensation claims unit.
dontchuwannaknow
Alternative crew handbook - McDonalds Workers Resistance
The notorious 'alternative crew handbook' produced by rebel McDonalds employees, containing everything a disgruntled worker and needs to know to get on in the job. This is the document management do NOT want you to read...
Remember at all times that the company is your enemy, it exists only to make money and only cares about you in so far as it can make a few more dollars off your back.
Liberation begins when we put self-respect before burgers!
[i] “This is not amusing, and has consequences you have clearly not considered (...) What you’ve done is thoroughly
Letter from Fiat workers in Tychy
The following is a letter sent from an underground group of workers in Fiat Poland in Tychy.
[i]It was written on June 13, on the eve of a referendum in Pomigliano d’Arco near Naples. The workers there are being asked to decide about their work conditions. Fiat agreed to invest money in this plant for production of the Panda, which is currently produced in Tychy, Poland.
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