Class Struggle

A Primer On The Different Types Of Labor Unions

July 11, 2019 J. Meeks, Peoplespolicyproject.org Organize! Class Struggle, Unions, Workers

Craft unions appeared in the United States and the United Kingdom before the industrial revolution, emerging out of the feudal guild system. These unions are made up of organized workers who have been trained to do a specific type of work (e.g., carpentry, painting). Craft unions typically are composed of workers who have been hired to do a specific piece of work with a definitive endpoint. Because craft workers, at least in the past, weren’t employed perpetually, but were hired to do specific types of work, craft unions originally collectively bargained over prices for the completion of a job, not wages or benefits.

CBO Report Shows Broad Benefits From Higher Minimum Wage

July 10, 2019 By Heidi Shierholz, Epi.org Create! Class Struggle, Inequality, Minimum Wage, New Economy, Workers

This afternoon, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report assessing the economic impact of raising the minimum wage to $15 in 2025 in six steps (this is a similar policy to the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage to $15 in 2024). The key fact coming out of the report is that CBO finds that the benefits to low wage workers of a $15 minimum wage far exceed the costs. The report finds that a $15 minimum wage would increase the wages of millions of low wage workers, increase the average incomes of low and lower-middle-income families...

After Standing Rock, Protesting Pipelines Can Get You A Decade In Prison And $100K In Fines

July 9, 2019 By Naveena Sadasivam, Grist.org Resist! Class Struggle, Pipelines, Protests, Repression, Standing Rock

Cherri Foytlin and her fellow protestors spent much of last summer suspended 35-feet in the air in “sky pods” tied to cypress trees. They were hoping to block the Bayou Bridge Pipeline from running through their part of Louisiana. At the time, Energy Transfer Partners was building the pipeline to move oil between Texas and St. James Parish in southern Louisiana, crisscrossing through the Atchafalaya Basin, one of the largest swamps in the country. Foytlin and others with the group L’Eau Est La Vie (“Water Is Life”) set up wooden platforms between trees along the proposed path of the pipeline.

Wayfair Employees Plan Walkout To Oppose Furniture Sales To Migrant Detention Facilities

June 26, 2019 By Janelle Nanos, Bostonglobe.com Resist! Class Struggle, Detention Centers, Immigration, Undocumented, Walkout, Workers

Employees of the online housewares giant Wayfair announced Tuesday that they would stage a walkout at the company’s Back Bay headquarters on Wednesday to protest its decision to sell furniture to the operators of facilities for migrant children detained at the southern US border. Last Wednesday, they learned that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture had been placed by BCFS, a government contractor that has been managing camps at the border. More than 500 employees signed a letter of protest sent to company executives. When the company refused to change course, employees organized the walkout.

An Intersectional Labor Movement Must Resist “Colorblind” Approaches To Organizing

June 22, 2019 Tamara Lee, Blackagendareport.com Strategize! Class Struggle, Labor Movement, Solidarity

It is difficult to disagree with Gupta, Lerner, and McCartin that “traditional worker organizing has failed on every level,” or that the labor movement could and should adopt approaches for more inclusive bargaining. Indeed, anyone interested in union revitalization should be encouraged by worker participation in the successes of contemporary campaigns for broader social justice—from the reverberating work of Occupy Wall Street to the Fight for $15 movement, the Women’s March on Washington, #MeToo, and the Movement for Black Lives...

The United States Has A Permanent Temp Worker Problem

June 19, 2019 David Van Arsdale, Indypendent.org Educate! Class Struggle, Employment, Labor, Workers

In the waiting room of an employment agency in Queens, laborers gather to be dispatched to warehouses and factories in New Jersey and upstate New York. Only their names are recorded before white vans arrive and the workers step in, cramming into seats and crouching on the floor to be transported to the day’s job. The job might last a day or two, and the agency acts as the workers’ employer. It deducts transportation costs and the fees it charges for the job from their paychecks, which they provide.

Nicaragua: Forgiveness A Revolutionary Trait

June 17, 2019 Chuck Kaufman, Afgj.org Educate! Class Struggle, History, Nicaragua

The willingness of the Sandinista government to go to almost any lengths to achieve national peace and tranquility, including pardoning the crimes of those in the opposition who killed, tortured, burned homes, schools, markets, and public buildings in last year’s failed coup attempt, is consistent with their historical record. Recall that the triumphant Sandinista revolutionary forces captured many of Somoza’s brutal National Guard. They were tried by courts and sentenced to 30 years in prison, the maximum penalty for any crime under Nicaraguan law then and now.

Haiti Paralyzed By Protests Demanding The Resignation Of The President

June 14, 2019 Staff, Resumen Latinoamericano Resist! Class Struggle, Electoral Politics, Haiti, Protests

Four months after the “blocked” country movement carried out in February protests with different sectors of the Haitian society large scale activities continue paralyzing large parts of Port-au-Prince. Alterpresse reported on June 9 that tens of thousands of people protested against corruption and demanded the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Most public and private institutions, commercial banks, supermarkets, and fuel stations are closed in the metropolitan area of Haiti’s capital city and the doors of the schools are closed.

The ‘Gilets Noirs’: The Undocumented Migrant Movement In France

June 14, 2019 Luke Butterly, Versobooks.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Immigrants, Undocumented

With France marking six months of ‘yellow vest’ rallies and civil unrest, a new movement is making itself heard. The Gilets Noirs, the largest collective of undocumented migrants in France, have been conducting a series of high profile actions, most notbaly the recent protests at Charles De Gaulle airport calling for an end to deportation flights. In this article, Luke Butterly reports on the movement. As France marks six months of ‘yellow vest’ rallies and civil unrest, a new movement is making itself heard.

Retail Workers Nationwide Are United For Respect

June 12, 2019 By Andrea Dehlendorf and Ann Marie Reinhart, Inequality.org Resist! Class Struggle, New Economy, Retail, Workers

Toys ‘R’ Us workers won a crucial severance pay victory last year after the company closed its US stores. Private equity firms KKR, Bain, and Vornado had bought up the legendary toy store just a decade before, saddled the company with debt, and left the 33,000 laid-off employees without access to the millions they were owed in severance. But rather than letting private equity vultures enrich themselves on the backs of employees who’d been with the store for decades, workers fought back, taking creative actions across the country and pushing legislators and pension funds to get on board...

Thousands March In Haiti To Demand President’s Resignation

June 11, 2019 Staff, Aljazeera.com Resist! Class Struggle, Corruption, Electoral Politics, Haiti, Protests

Protesters march through Port-au-Prince calling for President Jovenel Moise's removal over allegations of embezzlement. Several thousand demonstrators in Haiti marched through the capital Port-au-Prince on Sunday to demand the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise because of allegations of embezzlement. Led by dozens of protesters on motorcycles, the mostly youthful demonstrators filled city-centre streets in a rally organised by opposition parties and civil society groups.

This May Feel Like The 1930s, But History Doesn’t Have To Repeat Itself

June 6, 2019 By Nick Dearden, Equaltimes.org Strategize! Capitalism, Class Struggle, History

In the 1930s, capitalism needed a ‘Plan B’. Faced with mass disaffection after the financial crash of 1929, and a growing communist movement which threatened to nationalise property and expropriate profits, capital faced an unprecedented, existential crisis. Fascism provided the escape route. Sure, some of the individual ‘strongmen’ of fascism might be crude, distasteful and erratic. But on the positive side, many leaders of finance and industry reasoned, at least they carried with them the power to crush resistance and put the state at the service of their economic interests.

Tian An Men Square – What Really Happened (Updated)

June 5, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! China, Class Struggle, History

Since 1989 the western media write anniversary pieces on the June 4 removal of protesters from the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The view seems always quite one sided and stereotyped with a brutal military that suppresses peaceful protests. That is not the full picture. Thanks to Wikileaks we have a few situation reports from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing at that time. They describe a different scene than the one western media paint to this day. Ten thousands of people, mostly students, occupied the square for six weeks.

U.S. Workers Are Standing Up For Their Rights. A New Law Would Back Them Up.

June 4, 2019 By Alan Barber and Liz Watson, Inequality.org Create! Class Struggle, New Economy, Reform, Workers

More workers engaged in collective action last year than in any other year in the past three decades. In 2018, 485,000 people participated in work stoppages — from teachers to hotel workers to workers in the telecommunications industry and more. In 2019, working people’s appetite for collective action shows no signs of slowing down. And they’re getting results. In April, workers at Stop & Shop ended the largest retail strike in nearly two decades, when their employer finally agreed to back off of proposed cuts to their paychecks and pensions.

Communication Workers Union Stop Off-Shoring Of Call Center Jobs

June 4, 2019 Staff, Cwa-union.org Resist! Class Struggle, Service Industry, Unions, Workers

This week, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the Monitoring Colorado Call Center Job Losses Act, HB19-1306, into law. The bill will require the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment to keep a list of Colorado call center jobs, including those which have been replaced by overseas call centers, and require the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment to issue an annual report to state lawmakers on those call center job losses. "I've seen first-hand how companies harm working families in Colorado by laying off call center jobs and moving operations overseas.

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