Human Shields and Supermarket Managers
Max O’Donnell Savage reflects on the way ‘responsive’ human resource management uses internal labour markets and individualised welfare schemes to break up the embryonic solidarity between supermarket workers. This article was first published by Notes from Below.
On Strike at Stop & Shop: Interview from the Picket Line
Submitted by R Totale on Apr 16 2019 18:03
An interview with a striking Stop & Shop worker, originallly published by the Black Rose Anarchist Federation.
Guardian report exposes Amazon wage increase as public relations fraud
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 9 2019 20:35
A recent report in The Guardian exposes the fraud of Amazon's October wage hike stunt. It also raises the question: was this all simply intended to stave off a unionization effort that began last summer?
Mexican workers take matters into their own hands
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 14 2019 16:51
Largest North American strike wave in decades grows. Rebellion exposes union betrayal, is met with repression from “left-wing” government and a near total media blackout.
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.
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.
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