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Comment by Adam O'Maolagáin on November 6, 2012 at 11:30

This is an article that Irish Tapestry workers have put together commemorating the 1913 lockout.http://ning.it/RPCoHN"

Comment by Joe Balkis on January 5, 2012 at 20:00

Teamsters Host

Tele-Town Hall on Right-to-Work

Hoffa to Address Dangerous Indiana Legislation on January 5

 

Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa will help conduct a tele-town hall conference call on Thursday, Jan. 5, to rally opposition against looming right-to-work legislation in Indiana.

 

Teamsters and supporters across Indiana and Illinois are encouraged to participate in the town hall discussion using the following access information:

 

Right-to-Work Tele-Town Hall

7 p.m. Central, Thursday, January 5, 2012

Call-In Number: 1-888-886-6603

Call-In Code: 17807

 

"The Teamsters encourage all members to rally behind our Indiana brothers and sisters and oppose right-to-work-for-less," said John T. Coli, President of Teamsters Joint Council 25. "By staying involved and educating one another, we will create the solidarity necessary to squash these union-busting bills."

 

Indiana House Democratic Leader Pat Bauer will join Hoffa during the forum. Indiana lawmakers are expected to return to the state capitol on Wednesday to deal with the contentious legislation.

 

Members are encouraged to participate in a free training on right-to-work hosted by Teamsters Local 142 on Sunday, Jan. 8, in Gary.

 

Teamsters can also receive right-to-work updates and text alerts on their mobile devices by texting "INDIANA" to 86466.

 

CLICK HERE to download a flier on the damaging effects of right-to-work.

 

   

For the latest headlines and more Teamsters news, visit ChicagoTeamsters.org. 

Comment by Joe Balkis on January 5, 2012 at 19:56

Local 142 Combats Right-to-Work With Public Training on January 8 
 

Republican politicians will attempt to turn Indiana into the nation's first right-to-work state in more than a decade as lawmakers reconvene in Indianapolis on Wednesday.

 

Teamsters Local 142 in Gary and representatives from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are pushing back this week to squash the union-busting legislation. As Local 142 officers rally with members at the Indiana capitol, local leaders are organizing a right-to-work training for Sunday, Jan. 8, to better inform state residents, union members and supporters.

 

Local 142 Right-to-Work
(for Less) Training

10 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012

Teamsters Local 142, 1300 Clark Road, Gary, IN 46404

 

"Right-to-work laws are about bankrupting unions in Indiana and across the country," said Richard Knipp, Local 142 Secretary-Treasurer. "The argument that such legislation attracts more corporate business is a complete fabrication. Right-to-work-for-less is designed to diminish union treasuries, weaken our political power and kick our members out of the middle class."

 

Right-to-work laws prohibit union contracts at private sector workplaces from requiring employees to pay any dues or fees to the union. The legislation historically undermines union contracts and lowers wages for working families. A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute found that workers in right-to-work states earn on average $5,500 less per year than workers in states that refuse right-to-work measures

Comment by Orsan Senalp on July 24, 2011 at 10:28

GAIA Launches a Networganising Campaign | GAIA

We are building a peerage base for the new peer to peer, distributed and organised social network union GAIA – Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration. Join us and invite your friends and colleagues to involve!

 If you are outraged because you are unemployed, or you have precarious position in the ‘labour market’, and you feel injustice everywhere; If you want to do something about it for your self and others, join us, join the GAIA peerage. And invite your friends and colleagues to do so!

If you think the state to which you are paying a lot of taxes abandons you, and you think traditional unions, political parties and civil society organisations are not representing your interest and wishes properly, join the GAIA peerage!

In order to invent and build direct democratic peer to peer governance and protect, not only your self but also others’ interest by self representation join your force with us!

Even if you are a member of another network, union, or movement you can join us! You do not have to leave your memberships or other identities! This is better for GAIA peerage because in this way you can help us to link many to each other and in to one.

We do not have a manifesto or list of principles! In order to join us you do not have to subscribe to something or promise anything.

There is no membership to GAIA, neither membership fee. Joining and leaving GAIA is free. 

GAIA is a union also for ‘free labour’; peer producers can join GAIA to express their interest.

If you are a social or environmental justice activist or free culture and information activist who is linked to or working for an progressive NGO, or another type of civil society organisation your participation is essential for GAIA to make an impact.

If you are an hacker, IT worker, or data miner that is also extremely valuable for GAIA to join force with you!

Most importantly if you are a union or community organiser and do not have your self-organisation we need you to join us!  

With your contribution, what ever it might be, we can crack the old parasitic and unjust greed based private system down, and can create a safe, beautiful, peaceful, and just life on earth together!

Lets join and help us to create a peer to peer, transnational organised network of people who need to work for their life, and who do not want to consume and possess but instead to produce and build a future based on the commons; who do not want to leave on the edge but realise them selves freely.

Unite with others while keeping your autonomy, put in to the synergy and increase your energy.

Join us, join GAIA, and invite others!

‘Like’ our Facebook page> http://www.facebook.com/pa?ges/GAIA-UNION-Global-Alli?ance-for-Imme...

And ‘join’ our project on Open World Social Forum site> http://openfsm.net/project?s/gaia/summary

All for one, one for all!

Comment by Joe Balkis on May 16, 2011 at 18:10

Dear brothers and sisters and the community in general,
On Saturday May 21, 2011 at 11:00am Local 743 will be holding a rally at RML Hospital at Homan and Van Buren. This rally is in support of the workers at RML who are organizing a Union. An NLRB Election will be held on Thursday, June 9th 2011; therefore, support at the rally is absolutely crucial.
Any questions or concerns please contact to Abby Strozinsky she is an Organizer Director from IBT 743 at 773 254-7460 astrozinsky@gmail.com or contact me at 773 443-1743 thanks in advance for your support.

Comment by John Pietaro on November 17, 2010 at 15:01

Hey all-----my piece JOHN REED: THE WRITER AS REVOLUTIONARY was just published in 'Political Affairs'. If you are an artist of conscience involved in any genre, I urge you to check it out. We need to reconsider our roles as movement cultural workers, the model of which John Reed helped to create so many years ago.
jp--
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/john-reed-the-writer-as-revolutionary/

Comment by Jason Mann on November 8, 2010 at 15:55

Organizing Lead Generation 101 – a quick-start guide to getting mor...

Comment by Don Sutherland on November 3, 2010 at 4:46

Here is a good article about the internet and organising for social movements. It's worth further discussion - inlcuding a genuine attempt at a definition of organising that distinguishes it from activism. The link is http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/organizing-in-the-internet-age

Comment by Don Sutherland on October 24, 2010 at 8:05

Well said John! I agree 100% with you that the interactions between the union "rep" and members in a partly or fully organised workplace are just as much about organising as if we were working to organise a non union site. Stop "organising" in a union site and eventually the site willbecome weak, disorganised and even non union.

Comment by John Pietaro on October 24, 2010 at 5:09

I have worked professionally in the labor movement for nearly ten years, though my union and cultural activism dates back much further. While my title in the job has usually been Representative, I have always seen myself as an "Organizer" to anyone who bothered to ask. As a Staff Rep, I know that my principle task is to internally organize the workers in all of my shops. As I have explained to stewards, every interaction I have with a member--or anyone connected to a shop--should reflect much more than the conversation of the moment; in essence, I am representing all 25,000 members of my union. In fact, to the uninitiated, I am actually representing the entire concept of organized labor, so I'd better do a pretty damn good job!

I worked for one year doing new organizing and I must say that it is a greatly challenging job; my training in that field with both AFSCME and SEIU stays with me, however, in my Rep work. We Reps must shed the last vestiges of the old "Business Agent" image and recognize the organizing core of our roles. The history of the IWW's and the CIO's organizers infuse me with the inspiration to reach out to my membership while standing up to bosses in one felt swoop. Looking back on the immortal film 'SALT OF THE EARTH', I am reminded of the character of the union Organizer--now working in a Rep role with the miners who were on strike--who was told by the mine owners to get his men back to work. "Mister", he told the fat-cat, "they don't work for me. I work for THEM". Amen. Now THAT'S organizing!

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