Casualisation / Workplace

from interactivist, 23 September 2009: "On December 12, the precarious organizing the postcapitalist mayday of precarious and migrants in many cities of Europe and Japan (and Canada: no border, no precarity!) call onto all friends and accomplices across Europe + world to join forces behind the "Precarious United for Climate Action" banner, joining the anticapitalist block at the big demonstration that will gather every single environmental organization and activist group on the planet voicing the need for climate justice and the responsibility of global capitalism for environmental disaster, marching from Parliament to Summit..." more

from ainfos, 28 August 2009: "Over the spring, hundreds of workers at three car parts manufacturing plants across the UK were made redundant. In response, workers occupied the plants and, in doing so, demonstrated that any protection we might have from the ravages of this recession will come not from the generosity of employers, politicians or trade union bosses but from the action we take as rank and file workers..." more

from Undercurrents, updated 7 August 2009: "Breaking News - the court case in Newport, Isle of Wight has just been heard over the Vesta workers who are occupying their own factory making wind turbines. The court has just ruled this morning that Bailiffs are free to enter the factory to evict the striking workers from the Vesta factory. Activists including the band Seize the Day have spent the entire night on the roof of the factory in solidarity with the workers..." more

from interactivist, 8 July 2009: "NEW PAMPHLET FROM PAST TENSE - On 31st of March 2009 Ford/Visteon announced the closure of three factories in the UK and the sacking of 610 workers. The company was declared insolvent and put into receivership: workers were sacked with only a few minutes notice. No guarantees were given concerning redundancy or pensions payments..." more

from hsn, 29 June 2009: "This report documents and critically analyses the working conditions of construction workers on the Stratford City development site of the 2012 Olympic Games. We base our findings entirely on the accounts of anonymous IWW and non-IWW construction workers employed there. The report documents widespread mismanagement and a lack of resources devoted to ensuring that health and safety standards are maintained. Police intimidation of workers and harassment union activists is also documented..." more

from ainfos, 20 June 2009: "This past May 5 union leader Argenis Vasquez, organizing secretary in the union at Toyota’s plant in Cumana, was gunned down by thugs as he left his house. This assassination occurred just after a month-long strike demanding improvements. The murdered worker was a leader of the protest and key in confrontations with the company and the management..." more

from wsm, 27 May 2009: "People often pose the question, what can a strike achieve? The WSM policy on trade unions states the following: “What is anarchism? When we get down to basics, it is workers collectively running a free society. Instead of taking orders from the boss and serving his/her mad rush for profit at any cost, it is about working together for the common good..." more

via ainfos, 12 May 2009: "The following text is the official workplace strategy of the Anarchist Federation in Britain, adopted nationally in April 2009. Drawing on the experiences of AF members at the workplace, it aims to lay out the possibilities for anarchists in the here and now and open debate in the movement on workplace organisation... Given our stated position that unions are not revolutionary organs, and that they play an important role in the management of workers, many comrades have expressed puzzlement at the involvement of AF members in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)..." more

from anarkismo, repost 9 May 2009: "At our Spring national conference earlier this month the WSM debated and voted on a number of documents on the capitalist crisis and the resistance to it. This text is the agreed collective position of the WSM and looks at the causes of the crisis, how it impacts workers in Ireland, what resistance there has been and what hope there is for the future..." more