Must see video: Immigrant Slave Labor at Hershey’s Strike Back

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This is a must see video about how chocolate company Hershey used debt and deportation threat to use immigrant student workers as slave labor. The students -from Eastern Europe and Asia- had to pay 3 000$ to participate in a visa program called J-1 giving them the opportunity to come in the USA to work in a factory. In the end  this program was a way to provide cheap labor in United-States. The student workers were paid about 3 to 5$ per hour. Those students unionized with the NationalGuestworkerAlliance and made a sit-in to something about it. Then have strong support from the community. Learn more about Justice at Hershey’s campaign and on Democracy Now! report
Here’s an open letter the workers made to the Hershey’S CEO john Bilbrey
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Hochelaga en fête est de retour pour une deuxième année consécutive samedi le 27 août!

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Ce sera le 27 août 2011 que prendra place la deuxième édition du festival Hochelaga en fête, au parc Hochelaga, à l’angle des rues Davidson et Adam. Cette fête de quartier, qui eut lieu pour la première fois le 24 juillet 2010 est une initiative du comité BAILS. Suite au succès de cet événement, l’organisme a décidé de se lancer dans l’organisation d’une deuxième édition.

Au menu, une liste de groupes de musique des plus éclectiques qui plaira aux amateurs de reggae, pop, punk, rap, jazz, électro, folk et plus encore. Vous pouvez prendre connaissance de la programmation complète sur le blogue d’Hochelaga en fête II , à l’adresse suivante : http://bit.ly/hmenfete.

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La grève de CWA chez Verizon se termine aux États-Unis

ÉTATS-UNIS: L’affilié de la FIOM Communications Workers of America (CWA) et le syndicat International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), sont parvenus à un accord avec Verizon le 20 août sur la poursuite des négociations et sur la restructuration. L’accord sur la négociation collective entre CWA et Verizon était arrivé à expiration le 6 août.

source: International Metalworkers’ Federation – IMF

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Postes Canada: Profits record de 443 millions$ tirés de l’exploitation et l’intimidation des syndiqué-e-s

« Tout ce que nous voulons maintenant, c’est que Postes Canada s’en souvienne lorsqu’elle se présentera à la table de négociation. De la même manière que le public mérite un bon rendement financier de la part de sa société d’État, les travailleurs et travailleuses des postes et la population méritent leur juste part des profits. »

-Denis Lemelin, président du Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes (STTP)

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Boston IWW Joins Verizon Workers’ Strike. The Most Important Labor Battle Going On Today

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Originally posted the 9th of July.
Members of the Boston IWW joined striking Verizon workers for their second day of pickets at the regional headquarters in downtown Boston. Striking members of IBEW local 2222 were pleased with the show of solidarity as we marched together in the sometimes driving rain. The strikers were in good spirits as they walked the all-day picket line and confronted scabs at the local Verizon Headquarters.

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PBS ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Poor’ video shows dramatic wealth inequalities in the U.S.

“[In the US] we’re high for a poor country, in terms of inequality, and we’re a rich country. We’re about the same level of inequality as China. And, of course, China, half the population are rural peasants who are not part of the modern world.

And if we were to compare US with African countries, dictators in different places, you know, taking a lot of the wealth from normal people, we would be among the top half of the African countries of inequality. So, the U.S. really has reached an extraordinary level of income inequality.”

-Economist Richard Freeman

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Thanks for Boing Boing for posting that video and comment

On PBS NewsHour Thuesday night, correspondent Paul Solman went to the line outside the Letterman show in NYC and showed people three different pie charts representing the possible distribution of wealth in three different countries. Most people figured the most equal of those was the US. It wasn’t. The US was the most unequal: the top 20% own 84% of the wealth in America, and the bottom 40% have only 0.3%. Land of the increasingly screwed, more like it.

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