A series of interviews with working class women from west London - Part 5
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Apr 14 2018 14:10
Last part of our series - find the collated articles in the attached PDF
Smashing H&M in South Africa: not the first attack on the garment supply chain (and not the last either!)
Submitted by libcom on Jan 15 2018 23:42
Hand-wringing over the trashing of a few H&M branches in South Africa ignores the often highly militant struggles of the workers in H&M's supply chain (and others like it), themselves often women of colour and one of the most combative sections of the international working class.
Workers' Inquiry: Class War Strategies, San Francisco Zinn Bookfair, 19 Nov 2017
Submitted by Supply Chain Re... on Nov 19 2017 16:31
San Francisco's unemployment rate is 2.8%, an all-time low. The causes are various, but it's clearly due to the tech boom and astronomically high housing costs creating a massive labor shortage. This inquiry draws on participants' workplace situation -- borrowing from Silver's Forces of Labor -- to find ways to strengthen workers associational and structural power to leverage this condition for working class advantage.
Do solidarity unions need to ‘go public’?
Marianne Garneau and MK Lees reexamine the value of the "Going Public" step in solidarity union organizing drives.
Victory for Target wildcat strike as abusive manager is fired
Submitted by Ed on Sep 9 2017 19:48
Wildcat strikers at Target in Christiansburg, Virginia, are celebrating a victory after management agreed to meet their first demand, firing abusive manager Daniel Butler.
‘It’s only the beginning’: UK McDonald’s staff take historic strike action
Submitted by RosalindR on Sep 3 2017 21:15
Workers at McDonald’s stores in Cambridge (East England) and Crayford (Southern England) are mounting historic strikes on Monday morning. Organised by the BFAWU (Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union), they will be the first ever unionised strikes at a UK McDonald’s.
Behind the Christiansburg Target strike: an interview from the shopfloor
Submitted by Mike Harman on Sep 1 2017 21:09
New River Workers Power organised a five day strike at Target in Christiansburg, Virginia. Though the action itself was participated in by few workers, the strike successfully forced Target to starting an investigation into abusive manager Daniel Butler and so far has not resulted in repercussions for strikers.
An “entirely different” kind of union: the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), 1972–1986 – Julia Smith
Submitted by RobynK on Sep 1 2017 09:57
An in depth article which examines the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), an independent, grassroots, socialist-feminist union that existed from 1972 to 1986. They organised workers in marginalised, low-paying, largely female-dominated sectors that weren’t high priorities for the much larger business unions.
This article was published in the Canadian academic journal Labour/Le Travail, vol. 73, in 2014.
Christiansburg, VA Target workers on wildcat strike against sexual harassment and racial discrimination
Submitted by Mike Harman on Aug 23 2017 05:08
Workers at a Target store Christiansburg, VA are striking to demand the firing of General Manager Daniel Butler after multiple testimonies alleging abuse including sexual harassment and racial discrimination. There will be a picket outside the store on August 23rd.
Restaurant worker wins big pay-out in wage theft dispute
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Aug 22 2017 09:24
A worker in Brighton, UK has won over £20,000 in unpaid holiday and wages in a dispute with a restaurant.
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