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.

Welcome to IWW.org - Principförklaring

Posted Sat, 05/22/2010 - 12:02pm by webadmin

Direct Action Gets the Goodsrbetarklassen och den arbetsköpande klassen har ingenting gemensamt. Det kan inte bli någon fred så länge hunger och längtan råder bland miljoner av det arbetande folket, medan de få, som utgörs av den arbetsköpande klassen, har allt det goda i livet. Det måste föras en kamp mellan dessa två klasser, tills arbetarna i världen organiserar sig som en klass, tar makten över produktionsmedlen, överger lönesystemet, och lever i harmoni med Jorden.

Vi anser att centraliseringen av makten för företagen in i allt färre och färre händer gör fackförening oförmögna att hantera den ständigt växande styrkan hos den arbetsköpande klassen. fackförening fostrar ett samhälle där en grupp av arbetare ställs mot en annan grupp av arbetare i samma industri, och hjälper därmed till att besegra varandra i lönestrider. Merdärtill, handelsförbunden hjälper de arbetsköpande klassen att förleda arbetarna i tron att de har gemensamma intressen med sina arbetsgivare.

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: