Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed
Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on May 9 2019 12:46
From the management of June 2013 uprising to Bolsonaro’s ordered revolt.
Striking workers imprisoned in Iran
Submitted by R Totale on Dec 18 2018 22:03
IWW statement in solidarity with striking workers in Iran
Submitted by R Totale on Nov 14 2018 22:07
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.
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