K-Mart Workers Must Unite in the struggle for equality in the workplace. Collective bargaining is a purpose which all K-Mart workers should embrace. K-Mart Workers, Unite!

Welcome to my web page. I'm an activist, organizer, songwriter, folksinger, troublemaker and hellraiser from Pittsburgh, PA. I graduated from high school in 1968 and worked for a year to save up enough money to buy the beautiful Martin D-28 guitar that I still play. The Vietnam war and the Civil Rights Movement shaped my conscience and consciousness. I worked for a dozen years or so as a trial attorney and served as President of the Pittsburgh Musicians' Union.

The Brandworkers Idea

We believe that retail and food employees, working side-by-side with citizens concerned about the conduct of the big brand corporations, can win positive change on the job and in the community.

What We Do

Brandworkers connects, trains, and mobilizes retail and food employees to assert their rights and to make their voices heard in the public arena. We're winning recognition for the value of retail and food workers in society and building a movement for brand justice.

We need our own agency in order to advocate for our occupational, heath, safety, social, civil and economic rights because nobody else is going to do it for us.

Disclaimer: Although members of the IWW are involved in this organization, the ESPU is an independent organization.

EWIU International is a union network for all education workers working all over the world.

We are part of the Industrial Workers of the World, the historic, fighting union (aka the "Wobblies") and have a powerful commitment to fighting ceaselessly for workers rights and providing a strong, independent voice at work.

Did you ever wonder exactly who decided it was o.k. to pay restaurant servers less than one-half the minimum wage other workers are paid in the U.S.A.? You can bet it wasn’t someone who had spent much time hustling tables for tips! Maybe we should get a couple hundred thousand servers to join together, and ask if this is fair.

Who came up with the idea of calculating 3.5 - 4.5 % of the server sales for a shift, then taking this amount from tips to spread among the other restaurant workers? Sure, this motivates the support staff to provide better service, but why is it the sole burden of the server? If it is a motivation, why doesn’t the owner match this amount? This would be fair!

Occasionally, every restaurant or bar server has a night, when after they tip-out following a ten-hour shift they take home a lot less than minimum wage. It happens. Sometimes a table of 8 feel couple bucks apiece is enough on a $250 tab. Another table, upset with the kitchen stiffs the waiter altogether, as if the server cooks the food.

Faith was born on September 13, 1915 in a log cabin on a homestead near Orofino, Idaho. Real pioneer stuff!! She remembers singing in her preacher-father's church at the age of three, hasn't stopped singing since and has no intention of doing so. She is that rare being of this time, NOT a singer/songwriter. As Utah Philips says,

We are concerned members of UFCW Local 588 working to build a more democratic union. We believe the highest authority in the union should be the voice of the membership.

ICE-UFT is a caucus within the United Federation of Teachers. We started as a diverse band of active and retired teachers who joined together in October 2003 to provide an alternative voice for school workers, addressing the deplorable conditions for teaching and learning in New York City, and exploring ways to make the UFT into a stronger and more democratic union.

This is a site set up for IWW members engaged in the education sector throughout the UK. Our aim is to organise members of this sector into a strong network of militant activists, committed to revolutionising the way we learn, and ultimately, the way we live.

Mark Ross left at home at 17 because of illness (his parents were sick of him). Armed with a loud voice and a guitar, 35 years ago he made his way to Greenwich Village just in time to catch the last of the Great Folk Music Scare of the '60's. Yodeling, singing, cracking bad jokes, making execrable puns, and picking up a storm, he's been making his way at this trade ever since.

Welcome to the official site of the Cincinnati branch of the Industrial Workers of the world.  Here you will find all the current information and events of your local IWW unions.

This is a site to help develop an Association of Radical Healthcare Workers within the UK. The idea has so far been enthusiastically discussed at :

• 2006 London Anarchist Bookfair workshop joint sponsored by IWW and SolFed.
• February 2006 Feminist Health Gathering
• The UK based action medic network

This is at a very early stage. If you think that this is a worthwhile project, please either leave a comment here, or join the mailing list.

Research-Education-Advocacy-People (REAP), is a national research, educational and advocacy organization.

REAP is a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 by a small number of UFCW members and union officers. REAP does extensive research and publishes the results on a wide range of issues impacting union members and workers in general.

Retail Worker is labor news and discussion, by, for and about retail workers. This site is sponsored by the IWW

My name is Ross Bagnasco and I have been a loyal union member of UFCW Local 135, Since 1988.

I never had any desire or reason to became familiar with the activity inside the union structure. Always paid my dues on time and that was it, until Mr Kasparian was elected President of UFCW Local 135.

SEIU Member Activists for Reform Today (SMART) is an organization of rank-and-file members of SEIU who believe that members are the real source of strength for our Union and the people behind every victory. Members have fought for years in our work sites, in the streets, and in the halls of government to make SEIU the largest and strongest union in the country – now 1.9 million workers strong. Members also know that growth is critical to our success, and to rebuilding a fighting labor movement – but not growth at all costs, and not without full participation of the members.

Serving food, washing dishes and mopping floors is hard work that our campuses can't live without.  But you wouldn't know if from the way some campus workers are treated.

This site is the voice of all struggling bar and restaurant workers.

It is clear that the food industry in our cities has been out of control, and the truth is that many restaurant employers are abusive, sexist, mean, sleazy and crooked, they will take advantage of anyone who is kind, young, naïve or new. The fact is the food industry makes billions of dollars from teenagers, college students, immigrants and others who work so hard so some CEO can get richer. That's why we need to share with one another what happens behind the scene, expose them, place them on the wall of shame. Make your voices heard loud and clear.

IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE!

Who We Are: We are activists from around the country who feel that a student movement is desperately needed to carry on the struggle for participatory democracy.

We are now in the process of forming a national organization by linking the various SDS chapters around the US and by helping to build new chapters.

A site for ranting about bad workplaces and bad customers. 

Borders Union is the online home of Borders Books, Waldenbooks, and Books etc. employees in the US, Puerto Rico, the UK, Australia and Singapore. Here you'll find conversation with other workers and a history of the labor union movement at Borders, which has been ongoing since 1995.

United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights. We define 'sweatshop' broadly and recognize that it is not limited to the apparel industry, but everywhere among us. We believe that university standards should be brought in line with those of its students who demand that their school's logo is emblazoned on clothing made in decent working conditions. We have fought for these beliefs by demanding that our universities adopt ethically and legally strong codes of conduct, full public disclosure of company information and truly independent verification systems to ensure that sweatshop conditions are not happening.

We, the workers of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, do hereby declare the formation of a by association bargaining unit for worker/management relations, known hereby as a Job Branch of the Education Workers Industrial Union (IU620IWW), in order to collectively address our common concerns and interests within the Ross School of Business and the University of Michigan as a whole.

Here you will find information on Utah Phillips

Exactly what it sounds like - a blog for restaurant workers to vent about bad bosses, bad customers, and bad working conditions.  Enjoy!

We are a group of current and former Wal-Mart workers, who want to make Wal-Mart a better place to work.

We want:

    * affordable health insurance we can use
    * fair and equal treatment of all workers
    * decent wages
    * a voice at work

We will join together with community supporters, and pursue public and legal actions, to make Wal-Mart an employer that treats its employess with dignity and respect and abides by the rules of our communities.