Class Struggle

Chicago Hotel Workers Strike Over Healthcare

September 21, 2018 Bryce Covert, Truthout.org Resist! Class Struggle, Health Care, Labor, Service Industry, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

Tina Graham has worked for Chicago hotels for 11 years, and in the beginning, she faced a predicament every winter: As the tourism industry’s slow season approached she lost her health insurance, even as she dealt with the wear and tear that such physical work takes on her body. “When you’re working, you’re moving all of your body, your hands, your feet, your legs, your arms, and they get tired,” she told Truthout. “It’s really hard.” Graham has had to have work done on her rotator cuff due to the repetitive nature of her tasks. She takes arthritis pills every morning and wears a medicated patch on her back throughout the day. “You don’t rest from the time you get there to the time you leave,” she said. “You’re on the move, pushing a big cart with your linens on it, chemicals on it, your vacuum on it, going from room to room.”

McDonald’s Workers Strike Over Widespread Sexual Harassment

September 20, 2018 Naomi LaChance, Truthdig.com Resist! Class Struggle, McDonald's, Sexual Harassment, Strikes, Workers

McDonald’s workers in 10 U.S. cities plan to strike Tuesday at lunchtime over sexual harassment and subsequent retaliation at the fast-food company. “Whatever [anti-harassment] policy they have is not effective,” Mary Joyce Carlson, an attorney with Fight for $15, a fair pay organization, told The Associated Press. Carlson has been working with 10 McDonald’s workers who filed complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about predatory workplace behavior including groping and propositions for sex. “I couldn’t deal with it physically, just going into the workplace,” Tanya Harrel said. Harrel, who claims to have experienced sexual harassment twice from two different coworkers over the course of a month at a New Orleans McDonald’s, filed a complaint with the EEOC backed by the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund.

Prison Labor Is Slave Labor, And We Should Get Rid Of It

September 17, 2018 By Fizz Perkal, Otherwords.org Educate! Class Struggle, New Economy, Prison Labor, Slave labor

Incarcerated workers — who often make less than $1 an hour producing profits for big companies — are on strike across the country. As wildfires rage across California, some of the people risking their lives to fight them are paid only a few dollars a day. They’re part of a 2.3 million-strong underclass of American employees making sweatshop wages: incarcerated workers. Slave wages are just one of the many reasons why incarcerated people around the U.S. on strike. The strike was organized in response to deadly violence at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina earlier this year, a result of the prison’s abysmal living conditions. Organizers have a list of 10 demands, which include the need for prompt improvement of prison conditions and policies. They also call for the “immediate end to prison slavery,” which is legal thanks to a constitutional loophole.

JP Morgan Chase Warns Mass Social Unrest Ahead

September 16, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Strategize! Class Struggle, Economic collapse

In a 168 page report, 10 Years After the Financial Crisis, issued this month, JP Morgan predicts another economic crisis and concludes warning, "The next crisis is also likely to result in social tensions similar to those witnessed 50 years ago in 1968." It is this scenario, on top of the already existing unrest and anger at the unfair economy, that will continue to expand the popular movement and create the national consensus for an economy that puts people and planet first, which could lead to a positive change -- IF we prepare for it.

Thousands Of Chicago Workers Are Out On The First Citywide Hotel Strike In Over A Century

September 15, 2018 By Jeff Schuhrke, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Chicago, Class Struggle, Service Industry, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

In one of the city’s largest work stoppages in years, thousands of unionized hotel workers across downtown Chicago are on strike to win a new contract. Since Sept. 7, over 6,000 housekeepers, cooks, doormen, bartenders, servers and dishwashers with UNITE HERE Local 1 have been picketing outside 26 hotels, including the Palmer House Hilton, Hyatt Regency and Sheraton Grand. Spirits are high as striking workers and supporters maintain loud and energetic picket lines at all hours of the day. Contracts at 30 downtown hotels—each negotiated separately—expired on August 31. The strike was authorized two weeks earlier by 97 percent of voting union members. In addition to raises, safer workloads, increased sick days and improved job security, workers are fighting to win year-round health insurance.

From Rojava To The Mapuche Struggle: The Kurdish Revolutionary Seed Spreads In Latin America

September 13, 2018 Pilar Villanueva, Towardfreedom.org Create! Class Struggle, Latin America, Rojava

For several years, the Kurds have been at the forefront of a revolution in Western Kurdistan (Rojava). Their alternative system to capitalism has resonated all over the globe. Their society is organized according to Democratic Confederalism, an ethical form of political organization that brings together ideas from libertarian municipalism, social ecology, and feminism. In Latin America, one of the places where Rojava thought has taken root is Wallmapu, the ancestral territory of the Mapuche people, the largest indigenous group in Chile and Argentina. The Mapuche have struggled for centuries against repression, displacement, and dispossession of their territory and lands. The Mapuche people, inspired by the Kurdish struggle – and especially the Kurdish women’s freedom movement...

New Confirmed Prison Action, Reports From The National Prison Strike’s Final Days

September 12, 2018 Amani Sawari, Sawarimi.org Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Strike, Prisons

September 9th has passed, but it is up to the people in each prison who are participating in boycotts, hunger strikes, work strikes or sit-ins to determine the right day and time to close out their actions — from the outset, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and national organizers have endorsed local strikers to set their own end dates, or strike indefinitely. With ongoing communication repression (including heightened censorship of mail, lockdowns, and constant searches and seizures of prisoner property), there is undoubtedly a great deal of information on strike activity that has not yet traveled outside. As organizers have said from the beginning of this process, there is a wall of silence around prisons in the US, which should itself be of great concern for the human rights of those held inside.

No, Capitalism Will Not Save The Climate

September 11, 2018 By Karin Nansen, Commondreams.org Strategize! Capitalism, Class Struggle, Climate Change

At its heart sits an unsustainable economic system, the sole aim of which is endless growth and profit. This system concentrates wealth, power, and obscene privilege with the few. Corporations and national elites are empowered by that very system to exploit people and their livelihoods with impunity. We must tackle climate change and the associated social and environmental crises by taking rapid and bold action to address the common root causes; privatization, financialization and commodification of nature and societies, and unsustainable production and consumption systems. The magnitude of the crises we face demands system change. That system change will result in the creation of sustainable societies and new relations between human beings, and between human beings and nature, based on equality and reciprocity.

Mass Social Unrest Leaves Iraq’s Oil Capital In Flames

September 11, 2018 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Iraq, Oil, Protests

Iraq’s southern city of Basra, the country’s oil capital and center of its Shia majority, has seen mass protests that have left many of the buildings housing offices of the government, the main political parties, Shia militias and even the Iranian consulate in flames. Iraqi security officials announced a curfew Friday across this city of 2 million, warning that anyone found in the streets would be arrested. An earlier attempt to impose such a curfew was rescinded after crowds defied the government and set up blockades across the Basra-Baghdad highway and the main port of Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf, through which flow both Iraqi oil exports and food supplies as well as other goods imported into the country. At least a dozen protesters have been killed in the course of the demonstrations, many of them victims of live fire by security forces.

Prisoners Strike For Civil Resurrection

September 10, 2018 Kelly Hayes, Truthout.org Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Strike, Prisons

Forty-five years ago today, imprisoned people began one of the largest prison rebellions in the history of the United States. A few days later, New York State Police and hundreds of sheriffs would end that rebellion by raiding the Attica Correctional Facility and firing more than 2,000 rounds at prisoners and hostages alike. In the massacre that ensued, the police killed 29 prisoners and 10 guards, brutally establishing to the world at large that prison officials would rather kill dozens of prisoners, as well as their own employees, than meet the demands of imprisoned people who were seeking the most basic means of survival and sanity. Attica has since become a rallying cry for prison abolitionists and imprisoned organizers fighting for the rights of the incarcerated.

Police Break Up Sit-In Against Canadian Mine In North Mexico

September 10, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Canada, Class Struggle, Mexico, Mining, Repression, Sit-In

Canada's Coeur Mexicana mining company had reached a deal with the people of Guazapares, but then proceeded to violate the terms of that agreement. A group of 130 security officers from Chihuahua in Mexico broke up a sit-in protesting a Canadian mine, shooting into the air and arresting two of their leaders late last month. Canada's Coeur Mexicana mining company had reached a deal with the people of Guazapares, a small town in the Tarahumara highlands in northern Mexico, to use their territory and extract silver. But since the company failed to comply with the agreement, the community has been campaigning against it for three years. The August 20 sit-in lasted for 10 days until security forces, under the command of right-wing Governor Javier Corral, showed up – without identification or arrest warrants.

Thousands Of Rank-And-File US Steel Workers Cast Unanimous Votes To Strike

September 10, 2018 Jessica Goldstein, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Strikes, Washington, Workers Rights and Jobs

In a display of the growing militancy of the working class in the United States, rank-and-file workers at US Steel plants across the country cast a series of unanimous strike votes this week. The powerful strike votes take place as other workers, including teachers in the state of Washington, engage in a series of walkouts. The United Steelworkers (USW) union conducted the strike authorization votes after announcing last Saturday that it would to extend current labor agreements beyond their expiration dates while continuing contract talks with US Steel and ArcelorMittal. The contracts, which were due to expire September 1, cover 15,000 US Steel workers and 16,000 ArcelorMittal workers at mills and other facilities in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Minnesota and other states.

Inside The Prison Labor Strike: New Tactics Pay Off In Mainstream Coverage

September 6, 2018 James Kilgore, Truthout.org Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Strike, Prisons, Slave labor

“Fundamentally, it’s a human rights issue. Prisoners understand they are being treated as animals. Prisons in America are a warzone. Every day prisoners are harmed due to conditions of confinement. For some of us it’s as if we are already dead, so what do we have to lose?” –Pre-strike statement from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. When the 2016 US prison strike kicked off, the media barely whispered. Despite efforts by the Free Alabama Movement, an organization centered around the men inside Holman prison, to spread the message through social media and compelling video footage taken inside prisons, mainstream journalists weren’t biting. While independent media outlets covered the strike, an action that ultimately involved thousands of people in two dozen states drew virtual silence from mainstream media.

Massive Prisoners’ Strike In US Continues Amid Bids To Suppress It

September 4, 2018 By Pavan Kulkarni, Peoplesdispatch.org Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Strike, Prisons, Slave labor

The prisoners’ strike launched in the US on August 21 might have expanded beyond the 17 States where the action was originally planned. This was revealed by Amani Sawari, a member of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS) – an anonymous prisoners’ collective providing legal support to the incarcerated – which had given the call for the strike. The strike, possibly the largest ever in US history, is expected to continue till September 9. It was launched in protest against the use of prisoners as slave labor – which is a multi-billion dollar industry serving private profits, as well as US military production. Other issues include the extortionist prices charged for prison services such as phone calls, poor living and working conditions, and racial discrimination in the implementation of laws.

Freedom Rider: Prison Strike 2018

September 1, 2018 Margaret Kimberley, Blackagendareport.com Resist! Class Struggle, Prison Strike, Prisons

Incarcerated people and their advocates are the very definition of a resistance movement. The United States leads the world in many shameful measures, and mass incarceration is at the top of an infamous list. No other nation has as many people behind bars nor applies such overt racism in maintaining its penal system.One out of every eight incarcerated people in the world are black Americans. That is why the prison strike declared by the incarcerated and their supporters is so crucial. Their actions prove that this country lies when it claims to be an upholder of human rights. The 2018 prison strike commemorates two anniversaries, the murder of George Jackson in San Quentin prison on August 21, 1971 and the Attica uprising and massacre which ended on September 9, 1971.

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