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Starbucks Workers Union Gains Momentum as Campaign Expands to Canada |
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by SWU |
16 Jul 2009
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Quebec City, Canada – Steamed over unreasonable new scheduling demands and deteriorating working conditions, baristas at the Germain-de-Prés Avenue Starbucks filed for union accreditation Monday, becoming the first store in Canada to affiliate with the Starbucks Workers Union, a campaign of the Industrial Workers of the World labor union. The Labor Relations Commission of Quebec will grant the union accreditation after verifying their authorization cards in the next few days. |
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Introduction to MASA (Network of Anarcho-syndicalists in Croatia) |
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by MASA |
16 Jul 2009
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Mreža anarhosindikalista i anarhosindikalistkinja (eng. The Network of Anarcho-syndicalists) or in short MASA (“masa” is also a Croatian word for mass, mob, crowd or similar – this is a note for you to understand the symbolic of our name.) is a propaganda organization from Croatia that tends to form an anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary syndicate confederation in Croatia, and to become a part of the IWA. |
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Resignation of the Prime Minister of Croatia, dr. sc. Ivo Sanader |
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by MASA |
16 Jul 2009
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On the first day of July 2009, Croatian Prime Minister dr. sc. Ivo Sanader, who is also the president of Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (eng. Croatian Democratic Community – the largest Croatian conservative party, currently holding power in Croatia.), suddenly resigned from his position as the Prime Minister of Croatia. In accordance with the situation, an appropriate metaphor for the Prime Minister’s resignation appeared among the people: “Rats are first to leave the sinking ship”. |
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Iran: Presidential Election and recent unrest |
by Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organizations
Previously published: workers-iran.org |
25 Jun 2009
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Iranian people have witnessed the presidential elections in Iran. During the debates between candidates there was never any mention of destitute conditions of the working class, non-payment of wages, temporary-work contracts, medieval sentences of floggings, killings and incarceration of workers and labor activists, suppression of May 1st events… |
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Iran: A Call for the International Campaign to Free May Day Detainees |
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by The May Day Organizing Committee |
15 May 2009
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Workers and labour organizations in Iran and all over the world!
On May First, the International Workers’ Day, many workers and their families assembled in Laleh Park of Tehran in response to the May Day Organizing Committee (consisting of independent labour organizations in Iran). People gathered to present their demands and to commemorate the May Day; however, they as well as other visitors of the park were violently attacked by the security-intelligence forces and plain-clothes agents. These forces used all kinds of tools and equipments to assault people, as the result of which many got severely injured and more than 150 people while being beaten were taken to custody. At this time, about 100 of the above are still incarcerated. |
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Workers in Greece occupy union offices |
by General Assembly of Insurgent Workers
Previously published: libcom.org |
29 Dec 2008
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 The historic central offices of the General Confederation of Greek Workers in Athens was recently occupied by militant workers.
The action forms part of a strategy to counteract the designs of the union bureaucracy to distance its membership from the current revolt, and protest its management and mediation of workers' struggles in Greece. The occupants aim to create a space in which to facilitate a grassroots and self organised workers response to the crisis, and bring the wider working class into the events unfolding on the streets of Greece. Town halls in Athens and Thessaloniki have also been occupied in order to hold general assemblies.
The communique of the "General Assembly of Insurgent Workers" follows below: |
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Greece unrest: Interview with a libertarian syndicalist |
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by CNT-F |
25 Dec 2008
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An interview with Yannis, International Secretary of the ESE (Eleftheriaki Sindikalistiki Enosi - union of libertarian syndicalists), discussing the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos and the events that have followed. |
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Health and Safety Agency Finds Against Starbucks in Michigan |
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by GRSBUXUNION |
09 Dec 2008
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Coffee Giant Must Reinstate Barista With Backpay |
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Workers Solidarity Alliance Statement on RNC |
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by W.S.A. |
08 Sep 2008
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In the opening days of September 2008 people from all over the country came together in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to protest the agenda of the Republican National Convention. And in response, police cracked down, hard. And even before the events had begun police responded to mere calls for protest through strong-arm tactics reminiscent of a police state, including infiltration and spying by state agents against protest organizations and preemptive raids with guns drawn against private protest centers. During the event police responded with the indiscriminate arrest of hundreds of protesters, and even journalists recording the event where arrested. Decked out in full military garb masses of police indiscriminately assaulted numerous protesters with batons, pepper spray and other weapons, that though listed under the term "less then lethal" nevertheless inflict great pain and suffering, and have been implicated in serious medical complications and even death. Fortunately no one was killed in the Twin Cities, but the use of tactics befitting a police state should be a cause of grave concern for all people of good conscience. |
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French Post Office versus a CNT Member |
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by CNT-F International Committee |
31 Aug 2008
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Update: the disciplinary council against our comrade Serge Reynaud of CNT Post will be the friday 26th of September in Paris.
Thanks for all the messages of solidarity with Serge and also the actions Workers Initiative Poland or Spanish CGT organised in front of French embassies.
You can continue to send mails of solidarity and faxs to protest against the Direction of the Post. We will publish soon the mails of solidarity on our webpage and in our newspaper: Le Combat Syndicaliste |
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