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Comment by Iww Montréal on May 2, 2012 at 23:49

See about 70 pictures of Mayday 2012 all around the world! http://wp.me/p1nN2H-3os

Comment by Miquel Loriz Toro on May 2, 2012 at 8:22

Does anyone know an experience of Union Congress 2.0? How do they open participation to all members through social networks? We in CCOO Spain have our Congress in February 2013 but the discussion will be opne after the summer. So it could be interesting to nnow any previous experiences.This post was also uploaded to Social Network Unionism

Comment by Louis Smyth on February 16, 2012 at 9:59

done, I'll pass it on to others also.

wish Nick - solidarity greetings  form London

Louis

Comment by Mike Harris on February 16, 2012 at 0:50

Forwarding this important solidarity appeal to all friends. Please
take a few minutes to help Nick out. This is an important campaign!

Sorry for any duplicate postings.
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http://www.causes.com/causes/652437-reinstate-postal-worker-shop-st...

> The postal worker that honked his horn, when occupy was not allowed on
> campus has been terminated from his work. His termination was based on
> one attitude to cops. Two a ticket for stunting (honking his horn).
> Three being out of his delivery area. And four activity on a wild cat
> strike when he was on vacation. The plan for tuesday is to fill their
> managers emails with letters of outrage over the conduct of firing
> this worker based on these charges.
> thankyou, solidarity, and lets fight to win. An injury to one is an
> injury to all.

> please begin sending emails and letters to the following people
> in response to Nick Driedgers termination.
>
> Wesam Haymour
> -Title:SPT TRANSPORTATION
> -Location: 9808 103 A AVE, T5J 2T6
> Edmonton Alberta
> - Email : wesam.haymour@canadapost.postescanada.ca
>
> Brenda Young
> -Title MGR SHIFT
> -Location:12135 149 ST, T5L 5H2
> Edmonton Alberta
> -Email: brenda.young@canadapost.postescanada.ca
>
> Robert Mccutcheon
> -Title DIR PLANT OPERATIONS
> - Location: 12135 149 ST T5L 5H2
> Edmonton Alberta
> - Email: Doug.sinclair@canadapost.ca
>
> Azam Bacchus
> -Title: OFFICER OF LABOUR RELATIONS
> -Location: 12135- 149 ST T5L 5H2
> Edmonton Alberta
> -Email: azam.bacchus@canadapost.postescanada.ca
>
> SAMPLE LETTER:


Template email wrote:

To _____:
I am writing out of concern over the recent treatment of Shop Steward Nick Driedger, who has recently been dismissed. It is my understanding that Mr Nick Driedger advances the welfare and safety of his fellow workers in this role. It is hard to believe that someone as honest, positive, and hard working as Nick should be dismissed, especially in light of the charge discussed below.
Mr Nick Driedger has been accused of stunting, a charge of which hehas not been found guilty. According to eyewitness testimony, he was merely honking his horn, which could only make him more visible as he drove through an area with many police and protestors. Also, according to eyewitnesses, he ceased after hearing shouting from the officers in question. The eyewitness testimony in his favour is substantial, and it is disturbing that Canada Post Corporation would find Nick Driedger guilty in advance of the verdict of a court of law.

I, ______ request that Nick Driedger be reinstated as a full time mail service courier with no harm to his seniority. I also request the cessation of any targeting of him due to his activities as a CUPW shop steward.

Comment by Joe Balkis on December 26, 2011 at 14:26

Luis Baucage’s five-month old son is too young to understand Christmas or Santa, but it doesn’t make it any easier for Baucage to know that he cannot shower his family with gifts this coming Christmas. Baucage is one of the 42 art handlers Sotheby’s kicked out in the streets when the auction house locked them out in late July.  December will mark five months without a paycheck for Baucage and his fellow art handlers. To make matters worse, their health insurance will expire at the start of the New Year. Tell Sotheby's to stop being a Scrooge and end the lock-out before ... Working Americans everywhere deserve health care and job security, but companies like Sotheby’s want to milk the middle class for cheap labor. With a flood of signatures, we’ll put pressure on Sotheby’s to do the right thing and end the lockout before these art handlers lose their health care. On July 29, Sotheby’s locked out its art handlers, and demanded to reduce their hours, cut their overtime and replace union positions with temporary ones. The proposal came in the midst of the company’s most profitable quarter in its 267-year history.  Sotheby’s continues to break sales records and has even given its CEO, William Ruprecht a $3 million raise, when the total cost of the art handlers’ proposed contract is $3.3 million. Please add your name to the petition asking Sotheby’s to end the lock-out before January 1 so Baucage and his fellow art handlers can get back to work and provide a good living and health care for their families.  Help save Christmas for Sotheby's art handlers. Click here.  Sincerely, Jason Ide President, Teamsters Local 814 Click here to forward this message

Comment by Peter HJ on November 7, 2011 at 1:12

The New Unionism Network has just voted overwhelmingly to support the Occupy movement, both locally and internationally. See http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/occupy/ (some cool pics as well)

Comment by tarkvaageesh on April 24, 2011 at 12:47

We will definitely take a look at these links ......comrade Moro......

Comment by Piergiorgio Moro on April 24, 2011 at 12:40

Dear all,

 

some interesting points. Organising both at the workplace and politically is not easy.

I was interested in comrade's Tarkvaageesh link to a workers charter. Here at Australia Asia Worker Links have been working, with a number of union partners in the region, on a similar endeavour, see http://aawl.org.au/content/we-need-global-labour-movement-charter

 

Interested in your comments. Also have a statement on the recent uprising in West Asia and North Africa, see www.aawl.org.au

 

In solidarity

Pier

Comment by tarkvaageesh on April 24, 2011 at 12:27

Yes, Mr. Scott's position is  better one although not completely right. That is what we were trying to say...that trade union alone cant hep workers. They need a party of their own also. Only trade union wont be of much great help. At the same time i also express regret for being so bitter in polemics......i should have exercised more restraint and balanced approach in criticism.

 

So, coming back to Mr. Palikhe Rajesh's position.......actually, it not his fault either if he says that trade union should be kept out of politics. This has been a big problem in world communist movement and also in countries like India (where we are) that parties frequently undemocratically interfere with normal functioning of trade unions and make workers meek and docile which ultimately have a bad impact on International Workers Movement. We agree to this fact completely. It is as clear as daylight to us. And when people and masses see that such a thing is happening, they start criticizing party and start advancing the logic that party itself is useless. So, actually it is not Mr. Rajesh's fault or Mike Harris' or Data Miner's fault that seeing such things they make a opinion that party and politics is bad and trade union is good......We also feel strongly that trade unions should be created and should be allowed to function smoothly and democratically. Workers should be allowed to have major say in those unions and dissident voices should not be curbed undemocratically as had been the case, for instance in India. We believe in 'let the 100 flowers bloom' policy. But what we are trying to say is that ......yes there is a problem of undemocratic interference by parties, we accept it, but if somebody stretches this and start saying that we do not need parties at all, then he is at fault. He is committing a grave error. Knife is a good thing because we chop meat, pitzza, vegetables, etc. with it and it is a very necessary thing in our kitchen, but at the same time this very knife can turn into very bad thing if any goon or thug lay his hands on it! Then, he can use that knife to rob us! So, knife is good and bad both! It all depends on who is using it for what purpose! Similarly, party is important and necessary for workers if parties guide workers into right direction, but if party start interfering undemocratically, then it should be opposed. But if someone says that no we don't need party at all then we oppose it because that person is throwing the knife out of kitchen just on the basis of suspicion that it can be wrongly used! It wont be prudent on worker's part to throw or oppose parties like this. So, in summary, we need both of them for varying different purposes.



Moreover, here in India, we have different number of unions and we encounter this same problem here about which Mr. Palikhe is talking! And that is why we feel that his and Mike's observation is right and should be taken into account while talking a new initiative for worker's movement in 21st century. Trade union should be run democratically and party should not be allowed to do undemocratic things and turn trade unions into docile instruments.....We also agree to it.....

Moreover, keeping this thing in view, we, in India, on May 1, 2011 are going to organize May Day in Delhi on Jantar Mantar. Please see the following link for this




http://www.workerscharter.in/





We strongly feel that because of so many unions and parties and organizations, worker's strength gets divided, so we are trying to bring all different groups under a common umbrella of Worker's Charter Movement 2011. For this we have taken inspiration from Chartist Movement of England of 1870s and 1880s where millions of English workers launched their joint charter expressing their common class demands and they presented it to the British Parliament. If workers will come under one big umbrella or on one common platform then they will be in better position to assert their right.....


If you think that we are right in doing so, please join us on that day and also spread a word about it and contact us. Together we can do everything what we cant do individually.

 

 

 

Regards

Tarkvaageesh

Comment by Scott Wallace on April 23, 2011 at 23:42

The workers never gained direct control of the industries under the Bolsheviks, in spite of the Bolsheviks' slogan, "all power to the soviets".  They attempted to do that inside the Bolshevik party through the Workers' Opposition, but they were defeated and their publication banned.

Yes we need a revolutionary party, and we need a revolutionary union movement working hand in glove.  The party needs to declare the revolutionary goal and attempt to achieve a political mandate for that goal.  The revolutionary union movement needs to fight for as much as possible as long as capitalism exists, but it also must prepare the the working class to take hold of and directly and democratically operate the means of production. It must generate the muscle in the industries to back up what the party accomplishes politically.

 

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