The Tesco Dagenham Strike and the Power of Distribution Workers
Submitted by bisognasognare on May 20 2018 20:42
Warehouse workers strike for a 15% pay increase, but much more is at stake. Report and analysis from the picket line.
Greece: Karypidis supermarket worker commits suicide after 18 months without pay
Submitted by Rob Ray on Aug 9 2017 12:45
The Thessaloniki Libertarian Initiative writes about the suicide of a worker in supermarket chain Karypidis, after 18 months in which the firm simply didn’t pay its staff salaries. Early this month the initiative carried out a protest action outside one of the company’s supermarkets in Thessaloniki (above). This rally was the only collective reaction following the suicide-murder of the worker.
Retail chain gangs: workers’ reports from the Sainsbury and Waitrose shop-floor
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Feb 7 2017 14:55
First-hand workers' reports by supermarket workers on their conditions and the scope for resistance in a time when the retail industry is in a huge state of flux, both in terms of concentration of ownership as well as technological changes such as online shopping and self-check out.
Bolívar City and Venezuela in Ruins
Submitted by Crossly on Dec 21 2016 21:40
Venezuela is breaking into pieces, and the violence in Bolívar City may be just the beginning.
The Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strike, 1937 - Marc Norton
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 8 2015 10:41
A short history of the sit-in strike of women workers at Woolworth's in Detroit, which shook the nation and helped galvanise a militant working class movement which won big gains in pay and conditions.
Memorandum on the Bay Area food mart campaign
The Bay Area Food Mart Campaign began in 2009 and concluded in 2015. It was an experiment in reviving some of the IWW's essential revolutionary traditions in the context of the 21st century.
Whole Foods workers demand higher wages and a union
A press release from an IWW campaign in San Francisco at Whole Foods, a natural foods chain supermarket.
2006: Interview with a CNT striker at Mercadona
A 2006 interview with a CNT member on strike in Barcelona.
As Argentinian police go on strike, the people go shopping
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 4 2013 22:36
As police go on strike in Argentina’s second largest city, Cordoba, the people have gone on a huge shopping spree, emptying every supermarket in the city. Despite there being massive unemployment and poverty across the city, the media and government have claimed the the shopping spree has nothing to do with being poor, and everything to do with ‘common criminality’.
Walkouts at seven Walmart stores in Dallas
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 21 2013 18:10
Workers have today walked off the job at seven branches of Walmart across Dallas. The workers then joined protests outside, demanding that workers are paid a minimum of $25,000 a year. The action organised by the ‘OUR Walmart’ campaign has been played down by company lickspittles, who claim that very few employees have been involved, and that busloads of pickets had been transported between stores to boost numbers.
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