Direct Action Gets the Goods in Greensboro, NC!

Posted Mon, 05/13/2013 - 9:29pm by x359437

From greensboroiww.org

Last week, the Greensboro IWW achieved a swift and valuable win that illustrated the power of solidarity and direct action. A branch member had been unjustly fired from his job at New York Pizza on Tate Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. This fellow worker was owed more than $1100, including unpaid overtime and off-the-clock work, as well as money that was improperly deducted from his pay for rejected food and register shortages.

On Monday, May 6th, this fellow worker, accompanied by another branch member, delivered a letter to the boss from the Greensboro IWW, demanding payment in full by Friday. The branch was prepared to leaflet and picket at the location if our fellow worker did not receive his wages in full.

IWW.org ti da il benvenuto!

Posted Sat, 05/22/2010 - 11:56am by webadmin

Questo è il sito web ufficiale dei "Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo"(da qui IWW). Qui troverai tutto ciò di cui hai bisogno per unirti all'IWW ed iniziare ad organizzarti nel tuo luogo di lavoro per costruire il Sindacato nella tua comunità. La maggior parte delle informazioni che troverai trattano degli stati uniti e del Canada, ma troverai anche collegamenti a sezioni di IWW in altre parti del mondo.

L'IWW è un Sindacato di attivisti per tutti i lavoratori, un Sindacato dedicato all'organizzazione sui luoghi di lavoro, nelle nostre industrie e nelle nostre comunità. I membri di IWW si organizzano per conquistare le condizioni migliori oggi e costruire un mondo economicamente democratico domani. Vogliamo che il nostro lavoro serva a beneficio dei lavoratori ed a beneficio delle comunità piuttosto che per una manciata di burocrati sindacali.

Il nostro nome significa che organizziamo industrialmente; organizziamo tutti i lavoratori che producono le stesse merci o forniscono gli stessi servizi in un unico Sindacato, piuttosto che i dividere i lavoratori per abilità o mestiere, dunque possiamo dire che la chiarezza che la nostra forza vincente è nell'unità dei lavoratori. l'IWW è stato fondato nel 1905 e ha dato un significativo contributo alle lotte operaie nel mondo e ha una orgogliosa tradizione di organizzazione senza distinzioni di sesso, etnia o razza queste alcune delle linee guida che ci hanno accompagnato in tutta la nostra storia.

Chevron: Actively preventing a transition to renewable energy.

Posted Thu, 05/16/2013 - 1:23pm by IWW.org Editor

By x363464 - May 16, 2013

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

In 1950, Chevron, General Motors, and Firestone were charged and convicted of criminal conspiracy for their part in the General Motors streetcar conspiracy. In this scandal they purchased streetcar systems all over the United States in order to disassemble the industry and create bus lines. They did this to increase the demand for petroleum, automobiles and tires so that they could directly receive business and profits from their scheme.  Later Chevron began investing in alternative industries such as lithium car batteries. Chevron began to be limiting access to large NiMH batteries through its control of patent licenses. Many suspect they did this to remove a competitor to gasoline and suspicions were affirmed when Chevron began a lawsuit against Panasonic and Toyota because they started producing EV-95 batteries for electric cars.

London IWW: "End Metroline race to the bottom: Reinstate Oscar Alvarez now!"

Posted Wed, 05/08/2013 - 7:33pm by x359437

From iww.org.uk

We, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) want to express our deep concern and strong condemnation of the unfair dismissal of Oscar Alvarez, Union Representative of the IWW at the West Perivale garage.

Oscar Alvarez has been a London bus driver for 8 1/2 years. He reached the 10th position nationwide in Blackpool Best Bus Driver of the Year 2007 competition, which to date is still unbeaten by any Metroline driver. But Oscar’s sacking is far from being an isolated occurrence. This is part of an escalating wave of sackings on the buses over the last few years, which has seen all London bus companies imposing terrible contracts on new starters, often without union agreement or any serious attempt to fight this ‘race to the bottom’.

Reinventing the Wheel - The REAL Green Jobs Story

Posted Tue, 05/07/2013 - 7:14pm by IWW.org Editor

By x356039 - May 2, 2013

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

In the accepted limits of debate in Washington and Wall Street the main argument by proponents of the fossil fuel industry is the same as its always been: do you want to protect the environment or create more jobs? They argue expanding fossil fuel exploitation, in spite of the proven risks to the environment and public health, is necessary for the sake of job creation. By building Keystone XL across the Great Plains, opening the Powder River Basin to coal interests, expanding offshore drilling, and opening up new lands to fracking the fossil fuel dinosaurs claim our economy will recover & energy independence will be achieved. When confronted with the facts on clean energy sources like wind and solar power fossil fuel proponents argue clean energy is too expensive. They claim it would not be cost-effective to build a green energy economy and that it would lead to a decline in standard of living.

Quite contrary to the boldest of claims made by those dinosaurs the facts show shifting to a clean energy economy would create more jobs, cost less money, and easily exceed all performance needs. Research by the Renewable & Appropriate Energy Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley shows the fossil fuel industry's claims of better job creation rates compared to green, clean energy are vastly overblown. As shown in this chart below renewable energy sources produce as many if not more jobs per megawatt of capacity as traditional dirty sources of electricity: