Thursday 25 August last held an introductory evening SITT-IWW Montreal local of the union 5323 rue Brébeuf, to Montreal. Twenty people were present, fifteen of which were not yet members of the organization and came to find out more, most either after we have seen in action (including the Old Port) or either after being attracted by es-es some of our comrades.
We handle the preparation, cooking and service. We take care of the household and security and whene something is not, we are the first and first concerné.es, and the first and first to respond.
We believe that this should give us the right to negotiate our working conditions and these conditions should include respect and a better life.
Since I have 14 years, I work in the restaurant industry. It means that since I 14 years I have seen all happening right colors and shit wages. But I was lucky, I started hostess and have always had a little tip. Arrival at the stage of the apartment, I was a waitress, which guaranteed me a comfortable financial cushion.
Last spring, while looking for a job, I have not managed to find one right away in the service and that is where I lived, or rather tried to live, minimum wage. I have not just theory behind the $ 15 / hr, but I have lived. It is not true that at 10,55 / h is able to pay his rent, eat well and move. The minimum wage to $ 15 / hr, it means stop asking if I have enough money to take the metro instead of walking 1 hour winter to -40 ° C. It also means that, for the parents, a job each to 40h / week could be enough.
We'll tell, I have 21 years, no children and no other responsibility to take care of myself. If in my situation it's difficult, I imagine even what is for my colleagues who have children.
As employee to tip what does that mean the $ 15 / hr ?
In the industry in which I work, there are two positions towards the minimum wage to $ 15 / hr. There are people for, often working in the kitchen and there we, the waitresses, frankly, unless you work in a snack, we find well above that with a tip. We see what is difficult to win with the $ 15 / hr, but what's to lose.
As waitress, is often touted the idea that the service is a bit like winning the lottery ; one makes the pallet. I believe almost even, at least that is so ingrained that I want to believe. But when I think, except the girls my age, often begin, women and men emancipated and affluent in their so paying job in the service, I have never seen. My first job was a great job : small upscale restaurant on the edge of Quebec, as waitresses with women in their forties amount and small items, people of 14 years, like me at the time. Worse I reminds me of those women, Angels, super nice, who are in the industry for their 14 years. Except that they are also women who have tall tales about the industry. Women who never had a leave of their lives, which is returned when they became pregnant, who have substance use problems, money problems over the head, healths problem, but no insurance, nothing, as peanuts.
Worse in my second job, we were all between 20 and 25 years. We had money to spend and four days 12 h file are easier to toffer with something in the body that fasting. That when you think, this is normal 20 years later in this industry, we had problems worse is that much poquées. The lottery service I really want to believe, because it meant that we are told that our job is not as bad as that of the cook. But if it's really worse than lotto to win we maganne, I do not see how the tip is worth the effort.
Worse and more what we forget is that it contributes to our pension, on unemployment, on vacation, $ 9.05 / hr. In the background we forget that in the moment, arriving by mass y, but as soon as one gets sick, our boss we have found quite cute, it closes or you want a holiday, we are left with peanuts and, all of a sudden, we arrive there could Pantoute.
And we will tell, tip I do is not just of my smile, often there is the "do my food was good" and "Is it took 1 hour or 20 minutes to receive my food ". Since that time 7 years I am in the industry and from 7 years I see waitresses and cooks fight on the pay issue. It would be so much healthier and just all that is $ 15 / hr and share tip. Not just that, the "I accept the malaisante familiarity customers" would become much less necessary, could breathe, and keep the same quality of life.
Why 5 weeks of paid vacation and 7 days of paid sick leave ?
The $ 15 / hr is really the checkmark when you have a salary of $ 10.55 / hr, it's just if we manage to believe. Except that 5 day week, 52 weeks a year, unless you have the chance to be there for over a year and hast 2 weeks less, it is just not healthy. What is it for $ 15 / hr when you can not blow ? Worse yet our boss them in offers holiday, on our backs. Because you will agree that if my boss made so much money, it's not because he works more than me, it is because he had the idea and resource to leave his company. The 5 week vacation, it is basically to go get our of as work force. We create profit, you can ask enjoy it too. It's that simple.
It makes 7 years I worked in catering, that means jsais not what's sick leave. Not only take leave because we are sick we often is a written warning or loss of employment, but it also means a day's pay and that loss, we can not afford it.
Worse actually, the majority of people will say it's ED-LASS-GUEU to know that the majority of restaurant employees are not leave when they gastro, because "hey, jla eat this food there myself !». Yes. It's disgusting, but the rent is not paid by himself, sorry. The 7 sick days paid leave is like 5 week vacation : it's a big minimum. And there is not demand that they be paid only if taken, non. It was requested that, taken or not, diseases leave is paid. It means : no apology from the boss on the fact that there was no doctor paper and no need for justification for the charge.
How it will be possible to get there ?
The 15-5-7, it is possible and it's a big minimum. More, the only way it happens permanently, is that is organized in our workplaces. When we see gains in elections, these gains are temporary if they decide to give, they may decide to remove. We saw often, as the Parti Québécois has long been put forward by the unions during elections. But in fact, this is the party that has the most special laws in place. The election rhetoric I can not believe, it makes 7 jvois years the world of my industry in shit and now am also jle, I think even less. The policy of the rich not for me, projects not concern me, mine is on my workplace and notes with my colleagues in opposition to the interests of our bosses.
Walking through the base and the self-organization of workplaces, creating a momentum. What is happening, it is a movement. When we organize our workplaces, we organized with our colleagues and our colleagues engage in the fight against their direct opponent : employers. What we want, it is not a few people who convince the masses. The problem with trying to "convince", is that another can also be done against you. What we want, is that it comes from us ; because when it comes from the base, from US, the gain is solid. When we fight for something, that wins, if it takes us, we react. When we feel that we gave, if you lose, we resign ourselves.
At the IWW is believed that this is the organization that can really win and overturn the balance of power. It is organized in our workplaces with our colleagues. In theory, it's really nice to say that it will happen through elections, but the real power is in our workplaces, worse my colleagues and I know better how bin into place a government or any other group speaking through his hat. At the IWW it works through the base. Basically, when my job is going to unionize, we will do it in our own terms, we will have our own demands and our means of action. Intersectoral Local shall have no right of decision, except if requested. If we want to go on strike, we will not. But if instead you want to go, watch out, there is someone who can stop us.
What we do, is to talk with our colleagues, because their problems, OUR problems, are what make it collects, worse that shows solidarity. I have a colleague that if you talk to him about your problems, she sympathize, but hell no it was not embark on something for you, Yes, that's the individualism. But when you ask what is wrong with job, she has a heavy heart and wants to fight for what the key if she knows she is not alone.
Never someone leading a campaign will be sent. À l’IWW on a la célèbre phrase «every worker’s an organizer». It's from all of us : any worker / any worker is an organizer / an organizer, it's not just a central committee, not a meeting, and if we want to organize it organizes itself and is. It is we who know best how it should be in our workplaces, not my boss, not my activist friend, we ; it is we who can make it possible, that change. What it does, to organize, is that we become more sure of ourselves, Taking the reins and it gives the taste of acting.
The 15-5-7 we will tell, it's a wicked good idea. Except that we will also tell, there is a beautiful pattern in some precarious industries that wants the opponent is not my boss, but my colleagues. Because the cook not strength enough to make beautiful plates worse than X has a pay section than me. Yes, we all made form a view of the "natural event" worse it looks like this. worse there, that, it blurs the cards, because for the 15-5-7 works, We have to be held elbows. Worse competition, it does the opposite.
Me, the only tactic I've seen work to secure my colleagues, it is the organization. Worse organization on issues that affected everyone, even my add managers. Worse from it are increased demands, worse ways to pressure. It's not true that from the beginning everyone will want the $ 15 / hr. But one point, when it's been months, see for years you fight against the same opponent with your colleagues, on the problems that have affected you in the beginning, bad times not, bad times worse just you not him, ben you come to ask why wages are not fairer. What makes all of a sudden, because he helped me when my boss was harassing, because I helped him when he needed up 50 cennes, etc., share my tip is really equally logical that initially.
And then we will tell, it's quite as reformist request. What is required is not the abolition of exploitation, nor the abolition of wage labor. It just requires a greater share of profits from our bosses and a better lifestyle. Except that somewhere, until arriving at the beautiful society projects we try to sell me bad left right, I would like it to pay my rent, I want it bad eating nothing but sandwiches that are free to my job. Pis in all this, wanting the $ 15 / hr worse vacation and sick leave pay, we fight. When we organize among workers, it creates a stronger class, it shows solidarity and reverses the balance of power.
as worker, I was taught to think it was impossible to change things unless I became manager. I was taught to criticize my colleagues who were not double and refer to my bosses if there was a problem on the floor. With the organization and the IWW, I started to see, is that the interests of my bosses do not have a workplace with internal cohesion. Competition between waitresses and rivalry kitchen Service is a good example of what serves employers. Divide and rule, does that remind you of something ? Well here's a good example !
By organizing and solidarizing our workplaces, can make possible this kind of gain. We can win what is asked. We empower and we understand that deserves more. By reversing the balance of power, a barrier is broken and comes closer to the abolition of the wage.
Speech Morgane Mary Parson, rerprésentante the SITT-IWW forum for Montreal 15-5-7, in February. Published for the first time in the edition of May 2016 Combat Trade Union.
While it goes without saying that the movement for 15$ /h Quebec has not yet reached the stage of mobilization and visibility which was granted in the past year, he still managed to register as an integral part of the strategy of several community groups and union.
With his forum 15-5-7 organized in February, the Montreal local of the ISTC-IWW put his hands dirty by combining a hundred people goshawks of the speakers from various backgrounds. The 15 april 2016 marches were held in many Canadian cities. Taking this opportunity, Coalition met in February is called into action and regrouped at Jean-Talon metro to scroll the Plaza St. Hubert. Today, Quebec twenty unions, political and community support for the fight 15$ /h. We will take a few lines below to warmly greet some struggles led the field, either those of the orderlies, Union of employé.es Old Ports and McGill salarié.es.
The préposé.es to bENEFICIARIES whoident including health care, Mobility, to food and to the accompaniment of the sick or with disabilities (for example, in situations of aging and / or disability) earn on average 12,50$. The préposé.es are engagé.es by state, but also by private agencies and savings companies. The fight for increased floor salari
ale conducted by various union offices began there more than three years, but Pmakes an unprecedented scale, especially on the side of SQEES-FTQ is in renewal collective agreement. Since last fall, they and they took the opportunity also to multiply the actions of visibility such demonstrations and leafleting. Having early adopt a strike mandate affecting over 3000 members, the 10, 30 and 31 Last May were 42, then 38 private residences for seniors who were paralyzed. Or, it was no where a warning from the union. Warning that the government would had to listen, since an indefinite strike will occur at the 21 June in thirty residences.
On their side, the 300 Union members employé.es society of the Old Port (AFPC) are collective agreement renewal process since March 2016, but fighting for the $ 15 / hr since last fall. A petition was first launched their workplaces, followed by distribution of leaflets and pamphlets emphasizing the historical precedent and solidarity. The executive believes it has successfully reached 80% members and organized the action flash 28 January at an open day organized by their employers. The 27 May 1 strike was declared exerting economic pressure on their employers as the surrounding shops. from the very beginning, the Union of the company's employees from the Old Port is present in almost all events for $ 15 / hour, putting together at the forefront of their strategy.
Finally, it is under the banner of 15$ and fairness Mcgill eight Associatiounion ns, students and district gathered at the beginning of the year 2016 for wages and decent living conditions for salarié.es and subcontractors McGill. Although their first official action was to participate in the demonstration on 15 april, the militant.es chained several actions : a panel, an orientation day and video capsules to disseminate information.
These are just a few of many examples showing that for $ 15 / hour, 5 weeks off and 7 sick days, we can not let go to fatality, we must organize and fight!
Dated 1is January 2016, Randall Jamrok, general secretary-treasurer of the IWW, finished to the accounts and we announced that the IWW are now over 3500 members. Mainly distributed between North America and England are also found in Norgève, in Germany, Lithuania, in Austria, in Swiss, in Greece, Australia and China. If this monthly column that does not want a complete list of activities of each 50 and some locals that currently the Union for All and for All, she will try anyway, As bin that evil, to put some light on the activities of the Wobblies from around the world.
The 1is mars, le fellow worker James, branch Balti
more was done retroactively finally paid the 7500$ salary that Jimmy Johns stores had him after illegally fired for union activity. A similar judgment was given by the National Labor Relation Bord and a few more weeks, about congédiés.es employé.es of franchises Minneapolis. let's remember that the organizing campaign of restaurants " Jimmy John » was launched in Minneapolis 2007 out publicly soon 2010 with the organization of 10 branches quickly joined by fellow workers Baltimore.
Always in Baltimore, the 2 March, coffee and bookseller Red Emma, formerly accredited SITT-IWW, org
anisait the launch of the latest edition of the Book Franklin Rosemont deceased Jow Hill and the creation of a revolutionary working-cultivation against. For occasion David Roediger et Kate Khatib, friends, collaborator and collaboratrice Rosemont were invited es to speak.
The 15 mars, the-Montreal Local organizing a BBQ to mark International Day against Police Brutality. The event that followed attracted over 200 who for the first time in many years managed to take to the streets and to complete the event without mass arrest and police violence.
The 19 mars, Sheffield IWW organizing a training day focused on oppression gender-related reports, gender and sexuality in the workplace.
Organization of Training 101, training on how to launch an IWW union at his workplace, were held in Hartford, strait, Minneapolis, Milwaukee et Edmonton.
Two riots shook the state prisons in Alabama, c
huhstrong castle of the Organizing Committee of Workers and Workers Jailed es IWW (IWOC-IWW), In recent weeks. Pendant This time, members the IWOC Texas are preparing to launch a series of stops and work slowdown to achieve reforms in the records of the parole, access to health care andu prison system in general so that workers and prison workers are treated humanely.
Members of the Portland branch joined the 26 March Portland Solidarity Network to hold a picket in front LKQ Foster Auto Parts in solidarity with a fellow worker dismissed Andrew, while trying to organize with colleagues against stagnant wages, the dangerousness of their work environment, the lack of transparency of management and workplace harassment.
Already in its sixth strike of the season, United for Families Justiciale organized the 31 March 1 protest action at the headquarters of Driscoll in Watsonville in California to combat inhumane working conditions of workers migrant.es employé.es by the company.
Note finally that the promises was a major geographical and demographic changes to the IWW, mostly located in the Northern United States and England! While on one side the officers and members of the Canadian Regional Organizing Committee, es proud to have witnessed the creation of the branches of Sherbrooke and Quebec are working hard in the development of a project to increase 50% their membership and the creation of 3 New branches Canadian soil (Drummondville, Kitchener-Waterloo et Saskatoon). From the south side of the United States, many members have come together to organize a speaking tour to promote the Solidarity Unionism in their regions in addition to supporting the efforts of the Organizing Committee of Workers and Workers Incarcéré.es (IWOC-IWW) which provides numerous strikes and actions that will culminate in the national strike 9 September!
Honorable Mention - Images of militancy, labor and depression – Graeme M.
published by Solidarity, January 2015
This is the work. That is to say, the terrible and precarious work, still earning less than the minimum after paying the dues of the union (I was a member of CUPE, Canadian Union of Public Employees and the UFCW, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union). for example, CUPE works like any business, but with a different speech. They always talk about social justice and the difficulties of life of the working class, but they do not hesitate to take their contributions salaries of people who earn only the minimum, leaving them poorer and without representation. This is an incredibly hypocritical organization. In the same way that large companies, it only protects the interests of its professional bureaucrats and lets members of the base in very precarious conditions.
In this context, with all the stress, economic concerns and working up to 23h to return the next day at 6 am, comes depression. It starts slowly, sleeping much or too little, with isolation, without speaking to anyone ... and in the end I ended up missing work time. After a week without leaving home I went back to work, clean up a community center in the City of Toronto. Upon entering the building, le patron m’attrape immédiatement et me salue :
« Salut Graeme, How are you? Ça fait longtemps qu’on ne t’as pas vu », said my boss.
– Sorry. I was sick and I have not left my house all week
– You know you need a doctor's note eh?
-Yes, I know. What is happening, is that I am still not gone to the doctor. I can give it to you tomorrow?
– Yes, Yes. Its good. But as we did not know if you were coming today, on t’a remplacé par quelqu’un d’autre. So, you do not have to stay. You can come back tomorrow with the doctor's note.
So I go home ... it's 7 am. « Dormir! », I said aloud. I did not think for a second to go to the doctor.
I am affiliated with the IWW for almost a year. I became a member returning to Canada after living two years in Santiago, Chile. En huit mois j’ai travaillé à trois endroits différents à Toronto : as a cleaning worker at a community center (the above named), in the bakery of a very expensive supermarket and construction. I worked a lot, 45hours per week and up 65 in summer, during the construction holiday. Apart from my terrible times, I was fine most of the time. Being busy helps me sometimes, especially because I met people and could build solidarity. That balance my sanity. Share experiences and working conditions is an essential aspect of this process. However, in the places where I worked the problems of everyday reality began again to reappear. Comme m’a dit un collègue de travail un jour : « Ne fais rien; it's better to hide. Lis à quelque part dans ce maudit édifice… fais qu’ils ne pensent même pas à toi ».
He was Egyptian and had spent thirty years in Toronto, la majorité de ces années comme employé de la ville: pick up garbage, clean community centers or streets ... It's been eight months we worked together and I was telling him why I had not come to work the previous week. We started talking and I told him that bosses were wrong, they had not paid the week when I was not there myself nor those before. I told him I thought to go to the union to file a grievance, we should do something for the bosses respect us, when he told me what I have mentioned above.
« Ils sont toujours en train de nous avoir d’une manière ou d’une autre », did I say. « Ou ils ne te payent pas ou ils te changent d’horaire sans avertir. Whatever happens, it's always the same. Why act as if nothing had happened? »
– Viewing friend, do what you want. But if you denounce it'll just cause you more problems. You can go to the union, the judge, talk thousand lawyers ... and again, you're not going to win anything. You're gonna put you in all this bureaucracy to fight against them for eight years and when in the end they will make a decision, you'll be returned to sleep in the street, no money and no work. And in the meantime, every boss will have received wage increases. Thousands of dollars will be spent to not pay you fifty cents. Ils sont comme ça et si tu veux garder ton emploi ça serait mieux que tu te taises et que tu ne dises rien », I told you it.
He looked a little bored, maybe even sad. Even if it were well paid and had seniority, he did not meet one second the rules. He was famous because he stopped working a few days if the bosses harassed. That way he kept some freedom. His advice was a reflection of the fear and helplessness that had everyone in greater or lesser amount. At the community center there were few workers and workers with a stable job. Thousands of employee-s working for the city with unstable seasonal contracts, without employment benefits and worse wages than employees stable.
The public administration, Manager and owner of the centers, creating competition between the employee-s. More, le syndicat n’évitait pas qu’il y ait plusieurs classes de travailleurs et de travailleuses à l’intérieur de son organisation. Cela créait un climat de méfiance marqué par le stress et la peur. En plus il manquait la confiance, la solidarité entre les travailleurs et les travailleuses et le respect pour ceux et celles qui faisaient un travail nécessaire mais peu valorisé. La proposition implicite du syndicat : partir à la retraite sans causer de problèmes, si c’était possible, et fuir avant qu’ils ne privatisent tout.
En novembre 2014 le Toronto Harm Reduction Workers Union organisait sa première sortie public.
Durant ces mois à Toronto, j’ai participé à la création du Harm Reduction Workers Union, affilié aux IWW, pour les personnes qui travaillent dans le traitement de la toxicomanie. In the beginning, beaucoup de membres nous disaient que les syndicats ne les acceptaient pas dans leurs rangs. Ces syndicats avaient l’air de discriminer les travailleurs et les travailleuses pour les mêmes raisons qu’ils les employaient : eux aussi avaient été toxicomanes, prisonnier-e-s et sans-abris. Une personne gagnait 10 dollars pour trois heures de travail pendant que dans d’autres centres le salaire était de 15$ l’heure pour les mêmes tâches. Ces employé-e-s travaillaient pour des municipalités qui dépendaient de l’État pour offrir des allocations de chômage a ses employés afin d’économiser l’argent de leurs budgets.
Nous avons organisé le syndicat pour lutter contre cette injustice, contre le stigmate des travailleurs et travailleuses qui avaient vécu dans la pauvreté et que l’administration ne voulait même pas considérer comme des employé-e-s. Elle leur donnait du travail comme si c’était une action charitable. Nous voulions également mettre en pratique les tactiques de résistance ouvrière et le soutien mutuel que la classe ouvrière a développé depuis très longtemps.
La solidarité, l’action directe et l’appui entre camarades marquaient un contraste avec les méthodes bureaucratiques des syndicats traditionnels. Au centre communautaire, le syndicat antérieur a joué le rôle de représentant des personnes qui travaillent mais il ne connaissait pas ses membres. Notre organisation était créée et dirigée par les travailleurs. Cela pouvait se voir dans l’attitude et l’enthousiasme de tout le monde.
Maintenant je vis à Buenos Aires et je suis affilié à la Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA). La semaine prochaine, quand je vais terminer les formalités de résidence et de visa, je vais recommencer à travailler comme employé de ménage, cette fois dans un théâtre où travaille un camarade de la FORA. Il se présente à nouveau une opportunité dont je n’ai pas pu profiter lors de mon dernier emploi : l’opportunité d’organiser les camarades de travail et de leur présenter une alternative. Ça sera un travail précaire et mal payé mais avec la possibilité d’organiser les camarades.
À mes 18 ans j’ai été diagnostiqué en dépression profonde. C’était la deuxième fois que je finissais par consulter une psychologue amie de ma famille. The années suivantes, j’irai la voir beaucoup plus souvent. Accepter l’aide de quelqu’un était très difficile pour moi à cette époque. Je suppose que c’est parce que j’étais très jeune. Une personne croit en la nécessité de la solitude, en la nécessité de tout résoudre par soi-même. Quelque chose appris dans l’enfance, à l’école… qu’est-ce que j’en sais moi?
L’accent que donnent les médias de l’idée de l’individu totalement autosuffisant peut s’intérioriser de mille manières. Ce que je veux dire c’est que c’est seulement avec l’appui des autres que j’ai pu surpasser les sentiments d’impuissance, de peur et d’aliénation. Les racines de la dépression sont variées, trop pour en parler ici. However, les conditions sociales du travail et les exigences d’une société individualiste sont des causes inséparables qui contribuent à la souffrance de beaucoup de personnes. L’individualisme tente de détruire les liens communautaires et les liens de solidarité. La lutte contre cette idéologie devrait se baser sur le contraire : la formation d’une société nouvelle où ces liens entre individus jouent un rôle essentiel.
J’ai voulu raconter des histoires quotidiennes de résistance dans l’organisation ouvrière et de ma santé mentale. Raconter les expériences de solidarité, sans hiérarchie sociale, est aussi un processus de création quand nous utilisons l’histoire comme exemple de de lutte populaire et de support mutuel. Bien sûr c’est seulement le début d’un long chemin, mais maintenant je sais que la prochaine fois que me viendra le désespoir et la surcharge de travail, je pourrai compter sur mes camarades.
Écrit par Graeme Myer sous le titre original Imágenes de la militancia, el trabajoy la depresión, l’article paraîtra dans Solidarity, publication hispanophone officielle du SITT-IWW, en janvier 2015, avant de remporter une mentions d’honneur au working-writters contest qui lui vaudra une place dans le recueil Radical Works for Rebel Workers, The Best of the IWW 2015. Traduction par x385017 en février 2016 pour le Comité Communication-Traduction de la Section Locale Intersectorielle Montréalaise du SITT-IWW.
The United States, in Canada, in Britain and the & rsquo; Ireland, through Norway, l & rsquo; Germany, Lithuania, l & rsquo; Austria, Switzerland, Greece, l & rsquo; Australia and China, the Industrial Workers of the World are more than ever this Union to & rsquo; globally. But what do our organizers and organizing our spread to the four winds? What are their plans? What are their struggles? C & rsquo; is to these questions that attempt somehow to meet this new column, which each month will put the spotlight on the activities of the Wobblies from around the world!
The 9 January 2016, the Committee of General Defense Local 14 Minneapolis joined the Quinn family, Native Lives Matter, Idle No More, AIM, Black lives matter and many & rsquo; others to go protest in the cold to demand justice for Phil Quinn, murdered by police in Minneapolis in December 2015. The green line of the subway system and the & rsquo; University Avenue were blocked while the shares of disturbances took place in a Target, Walmart and Food Club. (Industrial Workers Winter 2016) A month later the CDG Local 14 participating in a new share, this time for Jam
ar Clarck, also murdered by the Minneapolis police. The next day the CDG, the IWW African People's Caucus and members of the Minneapolis branch come together for a day of discussing and training, especially about the & rsquo; increased police violence.
The 28 January, Members of the Boston branch are presented for 4e both the District Court Quincy, in solidarity with the arrested locking the & rsquo; motorway 93 when Martin Luther King Day. Number & rsquo; them and they also attend weekly to tow days of fellow workers of the Museum Independent Security Union, which are imposed not possible following times to a hiring freeze.
From the first days of February, the Wobblies Pennsylvania participate in pickets to protect more 10 000 trees that threatens to cut to encourage the construction & rsquo; pipeline.
The 1is February Portland branch walks alongside workers at Portland State University Graduate Student Union as they publicize their campaign by dropping off their applications at the office of the president.
The 4 February the Wobblies of Greece participated in a general strike that paralyzed public transport, airplanes, the boats, taxis, schools and left that & rsquo; a living wage of employees in hospitals, all in order to counter the reforms of the old age pension.
The 15 February Branch and Washington 27 Feb. branch Whatcom-Skagit participate in blockades in solidarity with Familias Unidas por la Justicia farm workers union, which currently calls for a boycott of fruit Driscoll. Boycott that & rsquo; d & rsquo IWW accepted; endorse at its last international convention.
The same day, many prisoners gathered under the banner of the Free Movement Virginia, echoing the Alabama Free Movement, join IWWs to launch campaigns against the treatment of incarcéré.es workers.
The 17 February, Members of the Branch Milwaukee participate in a solidarity picket with enseignant.es Wisconsin.
The 18 February, branch Madison participates in widespread wildcat strike in & rsquo; State met tens of thousands of workers and immigrant.es workers in the streets to challenge a proposed anti-immigrant legislation. The same evening the Madison Infoshop (Industrial union 620 IWW ) Branch and Madison, in collaboration with the Lakeside Press Printing Coop (IWW) organizing a conference on the popular uprising that gripped in Wisconsin 2011.
The 19 February, le Irish Center for Histories of Labour and Class, located in Galway, Ireland, launched a call for contributions in order to draw a portrait of the legacy of the & rsquo; IWW in Ireland and in the diaspora Irish.
The 21 February, Pittsburgh Wobblies participating in Malcolm X Legacy Brunch accompanied by the New Afrikan Independence Party.
The 24 February took place a manifestation of 300 persons before the courts of London in solidarity with 13 militant.es environmentalists, including 4 Members of the & rsquo; IWW, arrêté.es for actions against the extension of the & rsquo; d & rsquo Airport, Heathrow.
The 25 February 2016, members of the Sister Workers Canvass Camelot Union celebrated the third anniversary of their union. The struggle of the SCCU not only represents the first strike organized by the Minneapolis branch, she is too, without a doubt, the longest that the Union has known since its revival in the early 2000, and allowed the creation of the North Country Food Alliance, a work cooperative democratically managed by a dozen Wobblies which redistributes organic food. (Industrial Workers Winter 2016)
As at each yearIt ise, le 1er mai, Ironically at l’occasion of the FwillInternational thee Workers, the provincial government will increase the minimum wage of a few meager pennies. UMBRELLA joy, wageIt is-e-s prIt iscaires, in some months, we bathe dIt issormais in lust with an hourly rate of 10,75$…
this le, c’m iswillBossant me in forty hours per week, And this, at length’annIt ise, this wage setisre condemns us all to mwillme at live under the poverty lineIt is. C’is the order of’idIt ise that the Labor Standards Act, this legal tool for bosses, does not entitle that'at a meager two-week rIt ispit, anything that does not allow a breather. And the height, according to this theIt isgislation, if you have the misfortune’have the flu, a cold, homework’miss work, well, c’East at our fees.
And in a marre! C’is this It istat d’mind that the Industrial Union of Workers and Workers (SITT-IWW) launches campaign 15-5-7. Our claim is simple : that anyone salariIt ise is entitled at 15$ of the’hour, 5 week holiday and 7 journIt isIt is maladie (usedIt isor is not) payIt ises by annIt ise, qu’any sex, his nationalityIt is, the statusIt isgal, son âgive. C’is a minimum to live forIt isrecently.
We, the salaryIt is-e-s, n’have not at prove we bossons enough for crumbs, we are doing our part. Non. Able to accommodate, to eat, to rest, aspire at some comfort, take quality timeIt is with people that’WE love, do not willthree stressIt is End of Month, do not go to work when sick, c’is a minimum which all and has the right. decidedly. And further, c’is a measure that would restore power to women, which constitute the majorityIt is people living minimum wage.
C’is a campaign at long term as we enter, that we misNeros not alone-e-s, and that will not be won snapping fingers. But’exercise worthwhile, because’is our solidarityIt is we will successfully defend. C’is the fight that we will win better living conditions. C’is struggling, in QCIt isant a force ratio, solidarity, in our workspaces, in our communityIt iss, we extirperons what is rightfully ours. and c’is based, by us mwillmy, through our efforts togetherIt iss and’organization of our workplaces that we will take our hands of the bossesand, is 15$ of the’hour, 5 week holiday and 7 journIt isis maladie payIt isis!
Towards the 15-5-7 with SITT-IWW!
The Training Organization 101 (FO101 or OT101 English) is a two-day activity to provide members and members of the ISTC-futur.es IWW skills in order to engage in the organization of their workplace. Driven by the will to make all the workers in their own right leaders in the construction of a new model of unionism linked to the struggle for the abolition of wage labor, the FO101 is recognized today as one of the main causes of the resurgence experienced by the Union for all and for all since the early 2000.
The 16 and 17 January, Montrealer of the Local IWW-organized its SITT 5e formation by combining 21 Wobblies from Montreal, Quebec and Drummondville. Today we present the testimony of two participants who wanted to share their experience.
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Following my first time at the OT-101 IWW Montreal training, I would like to share my experience with others interested or reluctant to attend training. First, I am a member of the IWW division Quebec for only a few months, This does not prevent me from having the conviction that reform of powers must be made both in society and in the workplace. In fact, as soon as I knew the Union, I wanted to invest in me to share my ideas and ideals with people who have the same thought process as me.
So, when I arrived for training, I was warmly welcomed and severally by the members of Montreal. In terms of training, it allowed me to put words and processes the changes I want to make about me. I already had several ideas, but I did not know the steps to follow. I also had a conception of the Union which is clarified through my participation in this training. I came away equipped and boosted me to invest more. What I liked most of this training is not, however, the theoretical aspect, but the solidarity that follows. Knowing that I'm not alone, others are fighting with me for the common interests and shared, is the central element that made me grow up during this training.
Finally, thumbs up to the trainer and the trainer that without this training would clearly not be as interesting. I advise all people who have a desire to change things, but do not know where to start or who to turn to register and follow as soon as possible !!
-Gabrielle L.
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It's been a little bit that I am carrying a red card. I take some work and I go to social activities of the union from time to time, but it's really the Organization Training 101 that made me fully understand what it was like to be a wobbly, what it meant to wear this little red card.
Many things I have learned over the years on the broad mobilization issues have suddenly been ordered and delivered in the context of the union. It allowed me to put a structure on things I had learned through practice as an activist and expand this knowledge and practices. We learned and practiced full of useful tips and tricks to organize. One could ask any questions we thought. People who gave training knew their subject, but also left room for group discussions. It was informative, participatory and it was very appropriate to have the chance to hear the other people attending the training talk about their experiences. It made me know the reality of many other sectors of the working world that I did not know and it gave us the chance to know us and us to work together.
The training helped me understand the organization of a workplace is a process that can start anytime, in any workplace and that even if the purpose is to have organizing committees of our workplaces, an essential part of the union is to build solidarity. Build solidarity is a major reason why I joined the union and find that any organization is based on solidarity, compared to what I experienced in other unions, it is exactly the look why I joined the IWW.
This training has given me the tools to make the union in any medium, at the same time it made me build relationships based on our experiences working with the FW who took the same time training me. It was an intense week end of practical learning which required a lot of concentration, but it was also a weekend exchange, emotions and laughter. I feel better equipped to organize myself with colleagues, but I also feel a lot better understand what it is like to be part of the IWW.
Solidarity,
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Practical tools to launch an assault of his workplace, access to diverse organizational experience and a front row seat for living and understanding the legendary Solidarity Wobblies, this is what offers the Organization of Training 101. A big thank you to all the men and women who were présent.es locally in January, and others, we'll see the 2 and 3 april next to the 6e edition!
Friday 31 October, it's under the theme ofausterity, a horror story, that demonstrations took place in the cities of Sherbrooke, Rimouski, Jonquière, Baie-Comeau, The Tuque, the Magdalen Islands and Montreal. The protesters of the latter numbered 50 000 according to official figures. This feat was made possible thanks to buses from nearly 10 regions of Quebec that converged on the metropolis, thanks to the mobilization, not only students who still had more than 82 000 strikers, but also from various trade union centers and all community groups on the verge of war against the austerity measures decreed by the three levels of government and to which no political party of the opposition seems to be able to make the weight. This day of unprecedented mobilization since 2012 must be seen from two angles. First, as the culmination of several weeks of climbing and then as the starting point for an even bigger climb. Read more →
