Brighton hotel worker successfully resists wage theft
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 12 2019 13:33
A worker organising with Brighton Solidarity Federation has won a dispute with their seafront employer.
Sloop de restaurants — Een werkerskritiek op de cateringindustrie
Een vertaling van de 60-pagina tellende geïllustreerde gids Abolish Restaurants bij de dagelijkse ellende, stress, verveling en vervreemding van restaurantwerk, evenals manieren waarop restaurantwerkers ertegen strijden. Aan de hand van een reeks antikapitalistische ideeën en een schat aan persoonlijke ervaring is het deels een analyse, deels een strijdoproep. De eerste, oorspronkelijke druk in het Engels dateert van 2006. Nu voor het eerst in het Nederlands beschikbaar.
A worker gets paid after organising
A migrant former room attendant's account of successfully demanding her owed wages via Solidarity Federation.
2010: Pearl Continental Workers Sit In Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 24 2017 19:05
An eight year dispute between hotel management and its employees union came to ahead in February 2010 when police repression prompted a sit down strike at the luxury hotel.
Trumpism and the American Working Class
Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 1 2016 17:10
A suggestion for those hostile to Donald Trump's political platform, but have no faith in electoral politics.
Harsh justice in Folkestone: repression against opponents of World War I
Submitted by Battlescarred on Dec 7 2015 15:01
A short account of the severe sentence handed out to anarchists in Folkestone just for flyposting anti-war posters.
Fighting back in high-end hotels: an interview with a Miami Wobbly
An interview with an IWW member in Miami about working in hotels.
Las Vegas Casino workers have had enough of union busting bosses
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 5 2013 22:28
Over 3000 workers without permanent contracts have blockaded three lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard and a further 100 have occupied the lobby of the Cosmopolitan Casino - all of whom were subsequently handcuffed and arrested. Most of those involved have been working in casinos across Las Vegas for more than two years without any job security. Several Las Vegas casino owners are known to have contributed sizeable sums to a Republican Party ‘union busting’ campaign.
Women in the cleaning sector and hotel-restaurant industry: syndicalist conversations
The purpose of these interviews is to provide an insight into the situation and the struggles of female workers in the cleaning sector and the hotel-restaurant industry. To this end, we have met cleaning and catering trade union members of the CNT-Solidarité Ouvrière in the Paris region.
The Corporation (Documentary)
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 23 2012 23:16
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.
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