IWW

Starbucks fires another barista for union activity

GRSBUXUNION — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:10:26 +0000

Grand Rapids, MI (06/06/2008) - Starbucks terminated a barista active in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union today as part of its ongoing effort to combat a growing movement of employees pushing for a living wage and secure work hours. The barista, Cole Dorsey, was fired after two years of service while he was coordinating a union recruitment drive at Starbucks stores in Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids Starbucks Union and Spanish CNT announce global day of action

GRSBUXUNION — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:25:30 +0000

Day to protest recent firing of CNT member in Spain and continuing anti-union discrimination in Grand Rapids

Twenty New York IWW members fired

David in Atlanta — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:09:39 +0000

May 28, 2008

Flaum Appetizing, a kosher food distributor, terminated 20 IWW members last week. The IWW had a strong presence at Flaum, with about two-thirds of the warehouse being union members. Workers had been struggling for respect from the boss for almost a year before the firings occurred.

IWW Launches Second Phase of National Campaign

Dundee_United — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:49:57 +0000

IWW launches second phase of fight against blood service centralisation plans.

The IWW is fighting the closure of 10 blood processing centres across England. This is the largest campaign yet attempted by the IWW in the UK (the BIROC), and has led to large scale regional mobilisations, and the distribution of 55,000 leaflets and 5000 targeted workplace bulletins.

Calgary 1919: The Birth of the OBU and the General Strike - Eugene Plawiuk

Ed — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:01:03 +0000

The One Big Union was founded a mere two months before it was baptized by the Winnipeg General Strike. The founding Convention was held in the Calgary Labour Temple (which still stands today, though it has been converted into a Chinese Restaurant).

The Edmonton General Strike of 1919 - Eugene Plawiuk

Ed — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:52:02 +0000

In May of 1919 a heat wave crossed the province. Edmonton had reached temperatures of 85 degrees. Like the heat wave a mood of union militancy was in the air across Alberta, indeed across Western Canada. A strike wave would soon erupt sweeping the West like a prairie fire.

The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia - Ian Bedford

Ret Marut — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:02:55 +0000

THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD IN AUSTRALIA

IAN BEDFORD

Memoirs of the I.W.W. [Australia] - Bill Beattie

Ret Marut — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:29:59 +0000

MEMOIRS OF THE I.W.W. [Australia]

Bill Beattie

Glasgow and the Wobblies

Ret Marut — Sun, 20 May 2007 02:21:58 +0000

"It was perhaps a natural development that one of the strongest branches of the Advocates of Industrial Unionism should be in the Singer Sewing Machine Works at Kilbowie, Clydebank, which employed some 12,000 workers. Singers was primarily an American firm, but it had established itself in Europe, and exerted an effective monopoly in the manufacture of sewing machines.

Anarchy, precarity, and the revenge of the IWW: An interview with Starbucks union organiser Daniel Gross

jrivera — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:32:50 +0000

In this wide-ranging interview with IWW organizer Daniel Gross conducted by the UK-based Now or Never!, Gross discusses the innovative worker-controlled organizing model, known as solidarity unionism, that has made gains for Starbucks workers where the bureaucratic union model has failed.