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Submitted by x359437 on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 5:13pm
By Jake Carman, October 2013 Industrial Worker
At midnight on Sunday, Aug. 18, the night shift at the Harvard Square Insomnia Cookies voted unanimously to launch a strike for higher wages, healthcare and freedom to build a union. On Tuesday, Aug. 20, all four strikers joined the Industrial Workers of the World and initiated a public campaign to achieve their goals.
Submitted by x359437 on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 1:57pm
On Friday the 26th, Management at Mobile Rail Solutions fired Eric and Dwayne, two non-CDL service-helpers who are active participants in the ongoing Unionization effort. They further alluded to the possibility of firing all remaining non-CDL carrying employees. While management claims this is part of a restructuring, we believe that the firings constitute a broad attack on protected organizing activity and most likely a direct retaliation against protected OSHA complaints recently filed across several Mobile Rail locations.
Submitted by IWW.org Editor on Sat, 07/13/2013 - 2:16am
Headlines:
- Mass Protests, Social Unrest Engulf Turkey
- Sisters’ Camelot Management Admits To Dishonesty About Fired Worker
- Relief: Solidarity Is Our Strength
Features:
- When History Gets It Wrong: Reclaiming Our Victories
- A 100-Year-Old Idea That Could Transform The Labor Movement
- Fanning And Dousing The Flames Of Discontent
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Submitted by IWW.org Editor on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 5:16am
Headlines:
- Wobblies Defend Fired Bus Driver In London
- IWWs Organize & Win In North Carolina
- The Struggle Continues At Chi-Lake Liquors
Features:
- May Day Celebrated Around the World
- Historical Perspective On Lithuanian Unions
- Industrial Tragedy In Bangladesh
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Submitted by IWW.org Editor on Thu, 05/16/2013 - 1:23pm
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.
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