Welcome to IWW.org - Preambule

Posted Sat, 05/22/2010 - 11:58am by webadmin

De arbeidersklasse en de werkgeversklasse hebben niets gemeenschappelijk. Vrede is niet mogelijk zolang er honger en nood heersen bij miljoenen arbeidende mensen, en zolang de enkelen die de werkgevende klasse uitmaken al de goede dingen in het leven bezitten.

Tussen deze twee klassen moet de strijd voortduren totdat de arbeiders van alle landen zich in een klasse organizeren, de produktiemiddelen in handen nemen, het loonsysteem afschaffen, en in harmonie met de aarde leven.

Wij ondervinden dat het beheer van de industrieën in alsmaar minder handen geconcentreerd raakt en dat dit het de vakverenigingen onmogelijk maakt met de alsmaar groeiende macht van de werkgeversklasse te wedijveren. De vakverenigingen kweken een stand van zaken die toelaat één groep van arbeiders tegen een andere op te zetten binnen éénzelfde industrie, en zo bijdraagt tot een nederlaag voor beiden in een klassestrijd. Daarenboven helpen de vakverenigingen de werkgeversklasse doordat ze de arbeiders doen geloven dat de arbeidersklasse gemeenschappelijke belangen met hun werkgevers heeft.

Deze omstandigheden kunnen worden veranderd en de belangen van de arbeidersklasse verdedigd enkel en alleen door een organizatie die zo gevormd is dat alle leden binnen een industrie, of wanneer nodig in alle industrieën, het werk neerleggen zodra een staking of lockout aan de gang is in eender welk departement van de organizatie. Op die manier wordt een onrecht tegen één een onrecht tegen allen.

Phone Zap! Demand Sisters' Camelot Turn Over Info On Back Wages

Posted Wed, 05/22/2013 - 3:23pm by x359437

The Sisters' Camelot Canvass Union is asking supporters to call/text/email the remaining Sisters' Camelot collective members demanding they turn over information regarding their contractually owed back wages. For weeks, the striking canvassers have been confronting their bosses requesting this information. The wages owed to them come from their share of online donations. The collective has not paid the canvassers share of these funds since October 2012.

1. Ask they turn over information for online donations and 'call backs' to the Canvass Union.

2. If they say they don't have access to the information because the only person with access has not been responding to other collective members phone calls for the last several weeks, remind them they can contact PayPal and Network for Good themselves requesting access to the information.

3. If they say the canvassers contracts do not explicitly say they are owed these funds, remind them this has been policy at Sisters' Camelot for many years, regardless of how vague the contracts are worded.

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.

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.

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’.