Strike

More Than 1,000 Longshoremen Walk Off The Job At NY/NJ Ports

January 31, 2016 Staff, www.cbslocal.com Resist! Lobngshoreman, Strike, Worker Rights

By Staff for CBS 2. More than 1,000 longshoremen walked off the job at area ports Friday afternoon. During the walkout, which lasted several hours, overseas shipments stuck at ports in New York City, Elizabeth, Newark and Jersey City. The ports handle a total of 3.3 million containers a year, WCBS 880’s Peter Haskell reported. The Port Authority closed the terminals to incoming trucks, causing heavy traffic backups. One truck driver was able to get into the Bayonne port, but then he wasn’t allowed out, Haskell reported. “The ILA and the New York Shipping Association – our employers, it’s not just the workers, but also the owners of the companies that generate the jobs and generates money for the economy, both sides have been fighting the Waterfront Commission, especially in the last five years, over the right to bring new workers on, the right to operate their ports the way they think they should be operated,” Jim McNamara of the International Longshoreman’s Association told 1010 WINS. “They’ve had enough, they told me they’re taking this action to demonstrate their displeasure.”

150 London Students Launch Rent Strike Demanding Lower Housing Costs

January 29, 2016 Charlotte Dingle, www.occupy.com Resist! Rent Strike, Strike, Student Protests, United Kingdom (UK)

By Charlotte Dingle for Occupy - Students in Britain have a great deal to be angry about these days. In 2009, the U.K. government made the shock decision to raise tuition fees from £1,000 to £3,000 ($1,400 to $4,300), after the Liberal Democrats reneged on their promise to scrap them entirely and fell into convenient agreement with their Conservative coalition bedfellows. Then, last year, Chancellor George Osborne announced that maintenance grants for the country's poorest students would be scrapped by September of 2016.

Thousands Of UK Doctors Strike Over Lack Of Health Funding

January 13, 2016 Staff, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Healthcare, Strike, Unions, United Kingdom (UK)

By Staff of Aljazeera - Thousands of junior doctors walked off the job Tuesday in England in a bitter dispute over pay and working conditions — the first such strike in 40 years. About 50,000 junior doctors — those who are training and have between one and 10 years of experience — were on strike for 24 hours protesting government plans to change pay and work schedules. The strike has forced the cancellation of about 4,000 operations and outpatient procedures. The striking doctors argue patients will be put at risk by the government's policies, while the government says the National Health Service (NHS) needs more flexibility to deliver services on weekends.

Teacher Sickouts May Close 35 Detroit Schools Monday

January 11, 2016 David Jesse and Katrease Stafford, www.freep.com Resist! Austerity, Education, Strike

By David Jesse and Katrease Stafford for Detroit Free Press - A group of teachers called Detroit Strikes To Win spent more than 90 minutes meeting Sunday night at Gracious Saviour Evangelical Lutheran Church in Detroit to discuss the sick-outs and a possible district-wide strike. The group, led by ousted teacher union president Steve Conn, is upset with what they call the ruination of the school system by the state. When asked by the Detroit Free Press if 35 schools or more, about 1/3 of the district's schools, could be closed Monday, Conn said: "At this moment, that's what we believe."

NY State Nurses Strike In Capital Area

January 8, 2016 Staff, www.nysna.org Resist! Healthcare, New York (NY), Nurses, Strike

By Staff of NYSNA - GLOVERSVILLE, NY – 130 RNs from the New York State Nurses Association at Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville will walk off the job for a 1-day unfair labor practice strike on Wednesday January 6th. Last June, Nathan Littauer RNs overwhelmingly voted to give their bargaining team authorization to issue a ten-day notice of a strike, if Nathan Littauer continued its unlawful conduct and if the hospital management refused to negotiate on proposals concerning patient care.

Impending Chicago Teachers’ Strike

December 22, 2015 Sarah Jaffe, www.truth-out.org Resist! Chicago, Strike

By Sarah Jaffe for Truthout - The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) shook up the country and sparked a resurgence in militancy among teachers' unions with its 2012 strike. And now Chicago teachers may be getting ready to do it again. On December 14, CTU announced the result of a strike vote held the previous week, in which 88 percent of its total membership - and a full 96 percent of members who voted - authorized a strike that could begin this March or April, if the teachers and the district cannot agree on a contract.

The Kohler Tradition

December 17, 2015 Joel Feingold, www.jacobinmag.com Resist! Strike, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Joel Feingold for Jacobin Magazine - On a Sunday night late last month, the third-shift picket lines at the gates of the colossal Kohler plantwere jammed with Tier B workers — cracking jokes, getting to know one another outside the heat of the foundry, off the assembly line. It was the night shift, something like midnight. The line that night was young and international. Women and men. Third-generation German-American Kohler workers joined by Hmong-American, Latino, and black fellow workers. At their side were young migrants from southern Wisconsin and upstate New York, and many other small and large places.

Striking Port Truck Drivers Dig In Against Wage Theft

November 2, 2015 Dan Braun, www.capitalandmain.com Resist! Strike

By Dan Braun for Capital and Main - As Capital & Main reported yesterday, drivers with one of the larger trucking companies serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach went on strike just before dawn Monday. They struck XPO Logistics, a major international freight transportation company, while at the same time other drivers picketed Pacific 9 Transportation as they entered the 15th week of a strike against that company. These drivers are on the front lines of a critical fight impacting the future of work in the United States. “Misclassification,” a condition in which companies wrongly treat their workers as “independent contractors” rather than as employees, is a growing problem that is receiving increasing attention.

Montreal’s Francophone Teachers Strike Against Austerity

October 10, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Austerity, Montreal, Strike

By Ashoka Jegroo for Waging Nonviolence, Thousands of Francophone teachers, along with students, parents, and other supporters, flooded Montreal’s streets for a one-day strike on September 30. The strike is the first of six planned by the Federation Autonome de l’Enseignement, or FAE, a coalition of eight of Quebec’s French-speaking teachers unions, as part of their negotiations with the provincial government over proposed cuts to education. “We are taking the streets today to tell the population and the parents that we are with them, and that their schools, teachers and their students, deserve more,” Nathalie Morel, vice president of the FAE, told CTV Montreal. “We deserve better.” Sylvain Mallette, head of the FAE, first announced the strike on September 8, and on Wednesday, around 34,000 French-language teachers walked off the job and marched on the streets of Montreal.

Peru Indians Halt Production At 11 Oil Wells

September 3, 2015 Fox News Latino, www.latino.foxnews.com Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Mining, Peru, Strike

By Fox News Latino - A group of Peruvian Indians opposed to private oil production in the northern Amazon region of Loreto halted output at 11 wells and seized an airport on the eve of a planned 48-hour regional strike. The indigenous communities led by the Federation of the Achuar and Urarina Indigenous Peoples of the Corrientes River on Tuesday occupied several oil installations at Lot 8, which is located near Lot 192, the nation's largest oil block and the focus of the protest, Argentine energy firm Pluspetrol said in a statement. Pluspetrol, whose concession for Lot 192 expired last weekend, is the operator of Lot 8. The Indians halted crude output at 11 wells at Pluspetrol's Pavayacu field and seized control of the Trompeteros airport and three storage tanks, the company said.

Resurrection Unionism — 5 Ways Labor Can Rise Again

April 19, 2015 David Goodner, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Civil Disobedience, Labor Unions, Strike, Worker Rights and Jobs

Despite its flaws, organized labor is the most powerful democratic force in American history. Fewer labor unions means more income inequality, and everyday people and hardworking families are sitting ducks to the corporate agenda without the effective counter-weight of a strong labor movement. That’s why it is imperative that organized labor heed the lessons of Wisconsin, soberly analyze the outcome, and draw the right conclusions from the fight in order to inform the movement’s next steps. The most important lesson to be learned from Wisconsin is that labor’s traditional electoral program is no longer effective, if it ever was. Labor and other allied groups spent tens of millions of dollars in the 2012 recall election and again in 2014 in an attempt to oust Walker, but their spending was still dwarfed by big money corporate interest groups. Even worse was the missed opportunity cost: Labor wasted four years telling everyday Wisconsinites to elect moderate, pro-business Democrats instead of stoking the flames of a historic uprising and working to pull off a general strike.

Strikes Proliferate In China As Working Class Awakens

April 8, 2015 Didi Tang, www.bigstory.ap.org Resist! China, Strike, Workers Rights and Jobs

Timid by nature, Shi Jieying took a risk last month and joined fellow workers in a strike at her handbag factory, one of a surging number of such labor protests across China. Riot police flooded into the factory compound, broke up the strike and hauled away dozens of workers. Terrified by the violence, Shi was hospitalized with heart trouble, but with a feeble voice from her sickbed expressed a newfound boldness. "We deserve fair compensation," said Shi, 41, who makes $4,700 a year at Cuiheng Handbag Factory in Nanlang, in southern China. Only recently, she had learned she had the right to social security funding and a housing allowance — two of the issues at stake in the strike.

Montreal Students Announce Strike

March 23, 2015 Jennifer Baker, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Montreal, Quebec, Strike, Student Activism

The Montreal Gazette reported that organizers of the protest said this will be one of several demonstrations to be held over the next few months. “Today, we’re proud to launch a raucous spring,” said Fannie Poirier, spokesperson for the Spring 2015 protest committee. “Austerity measures have been presented as the lesser of evils to confront a deficient economy. But what we’re seeing … is a massive impoverishment of the population, full-frontal attacks on working conditions and a loss of security for society’s most vulnerable people.” The official spokesperson for student group ASSÉ, Camille Godbout, said more than 50,000 students will officially be on strike as of next Monday to protest against the provincial government’s austerity plan.

Toronto Strikes Back Against Neoliberal Education

March 22, 2015 ROAR Collective, roarmag.org Resist! Higher Education, Strike

It becomes remarkably clear that the foundational concerns raised in each case are symptomatic of the neoliberal restructuring of the university system, and indeed, of society at large, and represent a concerted push-back against austerity and the casualization and precarization of labor within and beyond the academic institution. In conjunction with increasingly assertive organizing on the part of adjunct faculty across the continent, with a second round of student strikes about to kick off in Quebec, and with student occupations taking off across the Atlantic in London and Amsterdam, these concurrent strikes have become increasingly powerful articulations of an emergent student and contract labor movement growing across university campuses globally.

Striking TA’s & Staff Frozen Out Of A Living Wage At UToronto

March 6, 2015 Sharmini Perries and Omar Sirri, www.therealnews.com Resist! Higher Education, Labor Unions, Strike

We've been out of a contract now for close to nine months. In November of this last year, our membership voted in the largest turnout for an academic local union in Canadian history and voted overwhelmingly to endorse [strike (?)] action, which then led to the final hearing, in which negotiations should have taken place. And a limited number of dates was set by the university administration to negotiate a final agreement, which virtually all took place in the final week, the 11th hour, in which literally beyond the 11th hour the university administration put forward a deal that was endorsed by our negotiating team and then put forward to our membership at a meeting the next day. And at that meeting, where more than 1,000 people turned out for that meeting, again, more than 90 percent voted to reject that deal and to therefore be immediately on strike.

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