By Doug Cunningham
Thousands of McDonald’s workers are taking their “Fight For $15” directly to the company’s shareholders meeting in Oak Brook Illinois. They rallied Wednesday and will again Thursday.
Five thousand workers turned out for the Wednesday rally.
McDonald’s is still refusing to adopt the $15 minimum wage for its workers, despite having spent $30 billion over ten years to buy back company stock.
By JoAnne Pow!ers
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Los Angeles and Long Beach were ordered to return to work Tuesday morning after walking off the job in solidarity with striking port truck drivers. After the longshore workers refused to cross the picket lines, a federal arbiter ruled that the action was a violation of their current contract. The 120 truckers are holding the Unfair Labor Practice strike over misclassification of the workers by three transportation companies as “independent contractors”, resulting in lower pay and fewer benefits than if they were properly classified as employees. The misclassification has been ruled a violation of U.S. labor law, and would prevent the workers from being able to form a union. The open-ended strike, supported by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is the third, following two shorter walkouts earlier this year. While ongoing contract negotiations prevented comment from the ILWU, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Vice President and Ports Division Director Fred Potter feels that the rank-and-file longshore workers and other union members are deeply committed to helping the striking drivers:
As of Workers Independent News air-time, trade unions in the United Kingdom are expecting over a million public sector workers to walk off their jobs Thursday in a coordinated strike against “poverty pay”, as well as concerns about pensions and workplace safety. Britain’s Trade Union Congress estimates that most public sector workers’ incomes have lost more than 4000 dollars annually following years of wage freezes. The massive strike is expected to include workers from all corners of the public sector, ranging from teachers to firefighters to civil servants.
Karachi, July 8: Sanitary workers ironically ended up making a mammoth traffic mess in the downtown areas of the city as well as some major linking thoroughfares on July 7 while staging a protest against non-payment of their salaries at the Arts Council roundabout.
The agitated employees of the district municipal corporation South Lyari zone were complaining that they had not been paid salaries for the last two months.
Hundreds of commuters were stranded in traffic jams on the roads and streets of Saddar and the iftar rush in the evening compounded their woes.
The thoroughfares hit with the traffic chaos included II Chundrigar Road, MA Jinnah Road, Abdullah Haroon Road, Dr Ziauddin Road, Club Road, MR Kayani Road and Zaibunnisa Street. Connecting roads including Sharea Faisal and Sharea Quaideen were also affected.
The worst congestion was witnessed at the Arts Council roundabout where the protest was taking place. The traffic police and wardens appeared helpless in bringing the situation under control.
By JoAnne Pow!ers
Truck drivers at three major California transportation companies went on strike yesterday morning at truck yards and marine terminals at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The indefinite strike over Unfair Labor Practices by the companies is an escalation following several earlier actions which lasted only one to two days. The workers are striking over firings, intimidation and other retaliation against workers for engaging in legal union activities protected under the National Labor Relations Act. While four billion dollars of cargo enters the nation through these ports every day to retailers such as Walmart and Home Depot, the workers struggle to make ends meet.
लखनऊ, 6 जुलाई। दिल्ली के वज़ीरपुर में एक महीने से जारी स्टील मज़दूरों के आन्दोलन को कुचलने के प्रयासों तथा देशभर में मज़दूरों-कर्मचारियों के अधिकारों पर बढ़ते हमलों के विरोध में आज यहाँ विभिन्न जनसंगठनों ने प्रदर्शन किया। लगातार होती बारिश के बावजूद जागरूक नागरिक मंच, बिगुल मज़दूर दस्ता, स्त्री मुक्ति लीग, नई दिशा छात्र …
Workers from 23 steel factories in the Wazirpul industrial zone near Delhi are still fighting for employers to honour the agreement reached after a 3-week strike in June. Now local police are colluding with employers to try and force workers back to work. Workers responded by rallying outside the labour department, which issued a notice against employers for not implementing the agreement. For rapid updates on the situation, check out the facebook page and blog.
For nearly two years the workers at the Golden Farm Deli in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn have been trying to get a contract. Finally, the Golden Farm owner gave up his attempt to get Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 338 decertified. He gave up trying to provoke the community support organized by […]
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On Tuesday, 1 July, hundreds of thousands of metalworkers went out on strike in the engineering and metals sectors, bringing the industry to a complete standstill. The strike involves small, medium and large companies, with more than 220,000 workers at about 10,500 workplaces. Some of the big companies that are affected includes Bell Equipment, Dorbyl, Murray and Roberts, Scaw Metals and Reunert.