NYC Full Schedule of Permitted and Unpermitted May Day 2012 Actions [Updated]

Article 23

1. Toute personne a droit au travail, au libre choix de son travail, à des conditions équitables et satisfaisantes de travail et à la protection contre le chômage.

2. Tous ont droit, sans aucune discrimination, à un salaire égal pour un travail égal.

3. Quiconque travaille a droit à une rémunération équitable et satisfaisante lui assurant ainsi qu'à sa famille une existence conforme à la dignité humaine et complétée, s'il…

Posted on April 30, 2012 

The private security guards at the Immigration Prevention Centre unionized with the United Steelworkers on April 17, 2012. The Centre, run by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Laval, Quebec, uses security guards from the Garda Security Group. The Centre holds people before they are deported from Canada.

The certification order, released by the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), gives the Steelworkers the right to represent all Garda Security guards working…

The repression continues after the general strike. This morning, while she was on her way to work, the Mossos d'Esquadra[Catalonian police] arrested the Organization Secretary of the CGT-Barcelona, Laura Gómez and took her to the police station in Les Corts. The charge by the police is arson and fire damage to the Barcelona Stock Exchange. This and other charges against her…

On May Day 1886 the struggle of the workers was to obtain the 8-hour workday (8 hours of work, 8 hours of culture, 8 hours of rest) and the State's response was repression and murder. Today, 126 years later, the state of exploitation by the leading castes of the workers is no less widespread.

May Day is the day for working class dignity, for demanding social justice, for remembrance and tributes to those who…

Socialist Worker 2300, 28 April 2012

www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=28302

International

Austerity protest shakes Czech coalition

Indignados Join Calls for Global Solidarity on May Day

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) fended off a complaint by 76 of its members over losses they suffered as a result of a tentative agreement with Air Canada.

The tentative agreement itself was roundly rejected by union members shortly after. The workers' previous contract expired on March 31, 2011.

The workers who laid the complaint against the union include aircraft maintenance, baggage and cargo handlers, airplane…

In April 2012, the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) ordered a certification vote at the Vaughan, Ontario branch of the international transportation company, Vitran Express Canada.

Teamsters Local 938 had asked the board to reinstate a fired worker involved in the organizing campaign. Vitran responded by saying she was on probation and was fired for "performance issues." The Teamsters asked the board to certify the union by order, rather than by representation vote,…

Unpublished letter to the Age for Anzac day. (Sent 24/4/2012) by Jeremy Dixon:



I got the facts about the construction of Anzac Day from the Peter Cochrane book linked below.( A good source on the IWW and conscription is Ian Turner's 

Industrial Politics and Labour). Anyway, I wrote in vain:



One reason there are so many myths about Anzac Day is that it began as a marketing exercise in the first place, to hoodwink the nation into voting…

Save Weekend Penalty Rates: “You Can’t Haz Our Weekend” Protest

 "Hit and Stay", a documentary by Baltimore based Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk, about the nonviolent Catholic draft board raids during the Vietnam War to be released this year.

See trailer here

http://www.hitandstay.com/index.html



A21 REPORT - 40th. anniversary of the Anniversary of Harrisburg 7 Trial - F.B.I. attempt to destroy Catholic Resistance to Vietnam War…

On April 4, the Canadian Industrial Relations Board recognized the United Steelworkers as the union for security staff at a number of regional Quebec airports.

The employer, Securitas Transport Aviation Security Limited, did not object to the certification application. On August 8, 2011, Securitas won a five-year, $487.7 million contract on…

Paris ve Barcelona’dan Avrupa’ya yayılan çağrı: 1 Mayıs İşçi Genel Meclisleri!

ALL THE INDIGNANT ONES OF THE WORLD UNITE! CALL FOR SYNCRONISATION OF MOBILISATIONS TOWARDS 1, 12, 15 MAY 2012

May 1st: General assemblies of workers! [ENG-ESP-ITA-POR-GER-FRA]