Casualisation / Workplace

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

from email, 16 April 2009: "7pm, Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road WC1.. The world economy is entering a deep recession, and it’s even more serious in Britain than in other parts of the world. The IMF is predicting that the recession will last longer in the UK than in any of the world’s other large economies. The effects are already being felt, and the working class are bearing the brunt as usual. But the truth is the bankers and politicians themselves don’t really understand how capitalism works. That’s why they never saw this recession coming. And that’s why their so-called solutions to the crisis aren’t working... more

from occupied london, 3 April 2009: "What’s the plan for tomorrow?" asked a comment on imc-uk yesterday. "What do you mean what’s the plan", came a reply - "the police have caused a man’s death - go out there and cause havoc, like Greece"... Strasburg (newswires) seems to be the next place on the rioting map. But meanwhile, back in Greece... Today (Thursday) is the day of the general strike. On Wednesday, PM Karamanlis called a meeting of the Government Council of Foreign Affairs and Defence..." more

from email, 2 March 2009: "The UK government is about to "reform" the Welfare State into oblivion....read the details in the Call out below....and this is happening.....in weeks! Week of Action Against the Welfare Abolition Bill - one week away! Disabled People’s Direct Action Network, Feminist Fightback, and London Coalition Against Poverty met this week to get planning for the week of action from 7-15 March 2009 and have put a toolkit together to help others take action..." more

from email, updated 8 March 2009: "As the government has bailed out banks and rewarded the bosses with big bonuses they have been stealthily pushing through a bill that will virtually abolish welfare for single parents and disabled people. Poor people are being forced to pay for the financial crisis caused by the rich..." more

from email, updated 17 February 2009: "South Korea, a major Asian economic power and the fourth largest in the region, has recently signed a major bilateral accord with the US and is currently negotiating a similar deal with Canada. Social movements in Korea have vigorously opposed the country's succession into the WTO since the mid-1990s and have actively mobilized in opposition to the more recent bilateral trade initiatives..." more

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Vestas, Visteon, strike, wildcat, worker... more

from email, 26 January 2009: Saturday, March 14th, 2009, Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm :: "This is an event to mark the political importance of the Miners Strike 25 years on. There will be meetings all day in different rooms to the bookfair which is going to be in a large hall. There is also a cafe all day..."  more

from cryptogon, 9 January 2009: "China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from a sharp economic downturn. The unusually stark report in this week’s Outlook (Liaowang) Magazine, issued by the official Xinhua news agency, said faltering growth could spark anger among millions of migrant workers and university graduates left jobless..." more

from email, 5 January 2009: "No one likes to hang out at offices after the working day is done, but when we found ourselves squatting the lobby of the biggest commuting contractor in Stockholm we felt that staying late hours at the office need not be so bad after all. This was during a conflict over union representation that started in the subway but after taking it to the streets we went one step further and took it to the contractors' headquarters..." more

from email, updated 2 February 2009: "We ask for your solidarity with Nico and Javi, members of Universidad Nómada and since years activists in the self-organized social centers, in the global movement, in the network of migrants, and in collective experiences like Mayday and the struggles against precarization... Your personal, collective and institutional support is needed... They call for two years of prison for Nicolas Sguiglia and Javier Toret for the imputed act of robbery and intimidation when they were involved as syndicalist mediators in a protest against precarity in Plus supermarkets in Sevilla around Mayday, 1 May of the precarious in 2006..." more