Labor/ Work

LabourStart headline - Source: IndustriALL Global Union

LabourStart headline - Source: Equal Times

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LabourStart headline - Source: Working Life

pimg align=right src=http://www.iww.org/sites/default/files/images/SCU.preview.jpg alt= /On Thursday, May 2 the Sisters' Camelot managing collective posted a long public statement on the internet addressing the current standoff between them and our striking union of canvass workers. Their statement is full of inaccurate information. Below are the most egregious inaccuracies, each with a concise explanation of the truth./p pi1. Sisters' Camelot: ldquo;We operate as an egalitarian democracy where no one member has a larger voice than any other, and all participate equally in the decision-making process. Anyone in the in the community ndash; including the canvassers ndash; can become a member of our collective and therefore have a full voice in its operations.rdquo;/i/p pTHE TRUTH: The collective has refused to allow some canvassers to join the collective when they showed interest. Other canvassers have decided the collective has been hostile towards them and the canvass in general. Many canvassers who have tried addressing canvass-related grievances through the collective process equate it to banging their head against a brick wall. Some canvassers are unable to attend Monday morning meetings because of obligations as parents, students, and workers at other jobs. The 6 collective members have hiring and firing power over us and the collective process has failed to address the grievances of canvassers, so we unionized to bring balance to the power dynamic in our workplace. Telling us to use the collective process is classic boss speak for telling workers they should go through pre-existing channels instead of unionizing./p pi2. SC: ldquo;After the group gave a list of demands (some, but not all, being reasonable), they gave the collective one hour to meet their demands. If not, they declared they would strike.rdquo;/i/p pTHE TRUTH: In our first meeting with the managing collective after unionization, we (the union) carefully went through our demands and allowed them an hour to ask any clarifying questions about them. They chose to only ask a couple questions, using about 5 minutes worth of their allotted hour. Then we gave the collective another hour to discuss in private and expected negotiation to begin after that. We stated very clearly that we did not expect negotiations to finish that day; we just wanted them to move forward in good faith. We stated that we did not expect to get all of our demands; that many of them were flexible, and as long as negotiations went ahead in good faith we would not strike. The managing collective simply refused to negotiate with our union./p div class=og_rss_groups/divpa href=http://www.iww.org/en/content/sisters-camelot-union-debunks-employer-propaganda target=_blankread more/a/p

LabourStart headline - Source: The Star

LabourStart headline - Source: Destination Fiji

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LabourStart headline - Source: The New Internationalist

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/library/BristolCommuteG_468x314.jpg type=image/jpeg; length=36031BristolCommuteG_468x314.jpg/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p An article about transit, it#039;s relationship to work and capitalism, and an exploration of a revolutionary anti-capitalist orientation towards transit struggles. /p /div /div /div p The film Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a surreal comedy-fantasy depiction of a city run on entertainment in which a corrupt judge, who runs a company that took over a trolley car line, attempts to take over and buy the city. The fantasy is based in some reality. /p pa href=http://libcom.org/library/taxing-our-lives-unpaid-costs-wages-transit target=_blankread more/a/p

div class=field field-type-filefield field-field-photo div class=field-items div class=field-item odd div class=filefield-fileimg class=filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg alt=image/jpeg icon src=http://libcom.org/sites/libcom.org/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png /a href=http://libcom.org/files/images/library/Fel_chile_en_valparaiso_2005.JPG type=image/jpeg; length=153663Fel_chile_en_valparaiso_2005.JPG/a/div /div /div /div div class=field field-type-text field-field-introduction div class=field-items div class=field-item odd p Using the concept of the intermediate level, an exploration of what a new workers movement in the US might entail. /p /div /div /div p It’s a tired truism that the workers movement in the US is floundering without a real base or path forward. A new generation of experimentation, struggle, and militants emerged from the ashes of the union’s most recent collaborationist strategy of labor-management partnership, contractualism, and labor’s historical parochialism of our-jobs-for-us. /p pa href=http://libcom.org/library/new-workers-movement-us-proposal-refoundation-through-intermediate-level target=_blankread more/a/p