The rebellion of truck drivers at a crossroads - Iniciativa Revolução Universal
Submitted by Blesk on Jun 5 2018 16:48
We translate from Spanish this material originally published in Portuguese by comrades from Brazil organized around Universal Revolution Initiative. It’s a leaflet distributed during the struggles that are currently taking place, in the spring of 2018, in the region dominated by the Brazilian State.
Huge truck drivers strike in Brazil in May 2018
Submitted by Joaos on May 26 2018 19:22
Initially, capitalists of the freight sector tried to use the strike to bargain in the name of their interests in the inter-capitalist competition against the oil companies and the government. There was doubt whether it was lockout or strike. But then the strike went out of control. When the capitalists of the freight sector made an agreement with the government to end it, the workers continued it and the strike increased even more.
Strike and self-organisation of truckers in Russia
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Aug 15 2016 11:57
Video interview with a supporter of the truck drivers' industrial action in Russia.
Messing with the drivers! Situation at Wincanton/Sainsbury's Transport Office in Greenford, West London
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 4 2015 16:32
Report about working in the transport office of a Sainsbury's distribution centre and general information about conditions and struggles of truck drivers in the UK and Europe.
Port trucker strike Ningbo, China
Submitted by Supply Chain Re... on Sep 7 2014 02:53
On 18 August 2014 over 10,000 port truckers in Ningbo, China, went on strike, not having had a raise in over 8 years. The strike lasted almost a week, with management offering a 12% raise. It involved nearly the entire trucking fleet of Ningbo, which is China's 3rd busiest port and the world's 6th busiest. During the strike, the port was paralyzed and ships were diverted to Shanghai.
The Teamsters wildcat strike, 1970 - Jeremy Brecher
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 13 2013 18:26
A short history of the militant nationwide wildcat strike of truck drivers in the Teamsters union against a union-management agreed pay rise of $1.10 an hour, which won a much bigger rise.
The Minneapolis Teamsters strike, 1934 - Jeremy Brecher
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 3 2013 11:52
Jeremy Brecher's short history of the militant and successful strike of truck drivers in Minneapolis in 1934, in which strikers beat police off the streets.
Pakistani truckers on strike, blockading NATO supplies
Submitted by Ramona on Jan 10 2013 16:26
Truckers delivering NATO supplies to isolated coalition ground troops in Afghanistan have gone on strike, in protest against lower pay, poor security, and corrupt customs officials who demand bribes from the truckers. The unions are calling for other transport workers throughout the region to join the strike action.
California labor: Total engagement
Submitted by IDP on Oct 23 2012 05:27
This chapter from Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception (1949) tells the history of class war in San Francisco, when "all of labor [was] pitted against all of capital." The conditions were unique: "Nowhere in the world has there been a more favorable economic environment, nor more freedom for social and political experiments than in California." The result? Wobbly organizing and near-general strikes on the San Francisco waterfront in 1886, 1893, 1901, and 1916, setting the stage for the 1934 General Strike, followed by the Oakland General Strike in 1946.
1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike photo gallery
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 20 2012 21:09
Images from the 1934 Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, one of the most iconic strikes in American history. The strikers shut down transport of goods in the city and battled police and employer vigilante groups.
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