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.
Walmart organise food collections for employees in hardship
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 18 2013 22:53
You would be forgiven for thinking that this post is an April fool’s joke… Walmart are holding a holiday ‘canned food drive’. So that employees ‘in need’ can enjoy a thanksgiving dinner. Walmart claim it’s a positive move and typical of the organisations caring culture. The workers have a different take on it.
Dozens arrested at protest demanding better pay for Wal-Mart workers
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 8 2013 14:19
In the Chinatown area of Los Angeles, over 50 people have been arrested during a protest demanding better wages for Walmart workers. The trade union organised action involved more than 200 trade unionists, Walmart workers, and their supporters, who gathered outside a new Walmart store and sat in the road – blocking the road for a period of time before being arrested and dragged off. The police kept all those arrested in jail overnight unless they could find $500 bail.
The class fight back: solidarity networks spread as a new alternative to 'alternative labour’
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Nov 1 2013 06:45
Portland Solidarity Network is entering a new phase of their wage theft campaign, and with this trying to present a new way of approaching labor and housing.
Dear Jamie Oliver...
Response to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's latest comments on the diets of the poor, how modern day poverty isn't real, and our f*cking massive TVs, from food blogger Miss South.
Requiem for a campaign
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 24 2013 04:41
An organizer's overview of an ended Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign in the Twin Cities.
Supermarket sweep across Argentina
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 21 2012 18:21
Two people have been killed, dozens injured, and at least 137 arrests have been made in several poverty stricken cities across Argentina, during an outbreak of mass lootings at supermarkets. The state has deployed the armed forces to try and maintain order.
