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Removal to DHS, Dora Schriro, is alsoamong the responsible heads for herfailure to report to the public on theconditions at PIDC.The hunger strikers are also de-manding due process. In an interview  with the
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, Rama Carty—one of the detainees and hunger strikersat the Port Isabel prison—said to thereporter: “It’s unjust…We are held here beyond any reasonable time, period.”Carty has been at the Port Isabel facility for about 13 months now, according tothe report.Deplorable conditions and lack of legal access are not uncommon at thesetypes of facilities nationwide. It is im-portant to note that the PIDC detaineeshave set a precedent for all the victimsof immigration detention with this formof direct action. They have called onthe community to make their strugglepublic.
Community Action
On the week when most class-conscious workers prepared to celebrateInternational Worker’s Day, members
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By Greg Rodriguez
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas -Nearly 100 immigrants being detainedat the Port Isabel Detention Center(PIDC) began a hunger strike on April22, 2009. The detainees have resortedto this form of non-violent direct actionafter months of relentlessly demandingadequate medical attention and an endto abuses by guards.PIDC is a prison used to detainimmigrants arrested by the U.S. Depart-ment of Homeland Security (DHS)/Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment (ICE). It is located in an extremely isolated area of the remote South Texastown called Los Fresnos.Those responsible for prisonerneglect and abuse are DHS, ICE and,
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Michael J. Pitts, who has been trying to break up the hunger strike by planningthe isolation of participants, pressuringthem to eat, and calling for the speedy deportation of detainees engaging inthe strike. These are tactics which willnot solve the problems, but insteaddeny justice to the struggling detainees.Special Advisor on ICE and Detention/
By Mathieu Dube
The workers of the Real Estate Tax Authority (RETA) have submitted their
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-dent union in Egypt. Around 300 mem- bers of RETA’s General Assembly gath-ered in Cairo to pressure the Ministry of Manpower into accepting their petition.The formation of the union, which rep-resents 270,000 members, was built onstruggles dating back to 2007. The work-ers voted to form the union in December2008 after a year-long struggle.Since the establishment of the Gen-eral Federation of Trade Unions in 1957,there have not been any unions outsideof the regime’s reach. Union democracy in the Federation is nonexistent—elec-tions are rigged, candidates that aren’tcard-carrying members of the rulingNational Democratic Party are either
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thus usually pro-government and pro-employer. The Federation is a tool forthe regime to mass mobilize for parlia-mentary elections and to put on a show for any given issue.Initially struggling to bring equal-ity between workers in governorates(regions) and their counterparts in themain RETA in Cairo, 10,000 workersheld a sit-in in front of the prime minis-
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First Independent Trade Union Forms in Egypt
Immigrant Detainees on Hunger Strike in South Texas
By Diane Krauthamer
On May 5, 2009, the IWW Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) announced the
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 workers in Latin America—Sindicato deTrabajadores de Starbucks Coffee ChileS.A.Starbucks baristas and shift super- visors in Santiago have organized forrespect on the job, a dependable work schedule, and a living wage, amongother issues. Currently, Starbucks CoffeeChile S.A. has 30 stores in the region, with plans to open six more stores in thenear future.“Starbucks has been in Chile forsix years now, and since they opened,management’s communication withthe workers has been getting worse and worse,” said organizer Andrés Giordano.“We have seen some reprisalsagainst those who have voiced construc-tive criticism to management aboutsuch issues as dismissals and a lack of promotions for baristas,” he added.Much like the working conditionsin North America and Europe, Star- bucks coffee shops in Latin America donot pay a living wage. In Santiago, forinstance, baristas and shift supervisorsonly make $2 to $3 per hour, while they continue to sell over-priced specialty drinks for twice that amount. Mean- while, the cost of living has increased by 
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NEW YORK - At the New School stu-dents and faculty are uniting to demandembattled president Bob Kerrey’s resig-nation, more student-worker participa-tion in university decision-making and
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result of “curricular changes.”On April 23, New School faculty—members of ACT-UAW (United Auto Workers Local 7902)—rallied outside theNew School’s main administration build-ing on 12th Street in Greenwich Village. A moving picket was followed by speak-ers, including representatives of elected
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New School Students, Workers Protest Union Busting
 According to an unsigned “Facts At A Glance” statement, dated April22 and distributed to press at the rally,12 part-time Parsons faculty were notrehired for the 2009-2010 academic year. The faculty members include “sixprobationary or post-probationary part-time faculty whose assignmentsran only through the spring,” “threeprobationary part-time faculty (who)
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IWW Regional Organising Committee: PO Box 1866,Albany, WA www.iww.org.auSydney: PO Box 241, Surry Hills.Melbourne: PO Box 145, Moreland 3058.
British Isles
IWW Regional Organising Committee: PO Box 1158,Newcastle Upon Tyne NE99 4XL UK,rocsec@iww.org.uk, www.iww.org.ukBaristas United Campaign: baristasunited.org.ukNational Blood Service Campaign: www.nbs.iww.orgBradford: Sam@samjackson6.orangehome.co.ukBurnley:
 
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British Columbia
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Boston Area GMB: PO Box 391724, Cambridge02139. 617-469-5162.Cape Cod/SE Massachusetts: PO Box 315, WestBarnstable, MA 02668 thematch@riseup.netWestern Mass. Public Service IU 650 Branch: IWW,Po Box 1581, Northampton 01061.Western Massachusetts GMB: 43 Taylor Hill Rd.,Montague 01351. 413-367-9356.
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Montana
Two Rivers GMB: PO Box 9366, Missoula, MT 59807,tworiversgmb@iww.org 406-459-7585.Construction Workers IU 330: 406-490-3869,trampiu330@aol.com.
New Jersey
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New York
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Ohio
Ohio Valley GMB: PO Box 42233, Cincinnati 45242.Textile & Clothing Workers IU 410, PO Box 317741,Cincinnati 45223. ktacmota@aol.com
Oklahoma
Tulsa: PO Box 213 Medicine Park 73557, 580-529-3360.
Oregon
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster GMB: PO Box 796, Lancaster, PA 17608.Philadelphia GMB: PO Box 42777, Philadelphia, PA19101. 215-222-1905. phillyiww@iww.org. UnionHall: 4530 Baltimore Ave., 19143.Paper Crane Press IU 450 Job Shop: papercrane-press@verizon.net, 610-358-9496.Pittsburgh GMB : PO Box 831, Monroeville,PA,15146. pittsburghiww@yahoo.com
Rhode Island
Providence GMB: P.O. Box 5797 Providence, RI02903, 508-367-6434. providenceiww@gmail.com
Texas
Dallas & Fort Worth: 1618 6th Ave, Fort Worth, TX76104.
Washington
Bellingham: P.O. Box 1793, 98227. BellinghamI-WW@gmail.com 360-920-6240.Tacoma IWW: P.O. Box 2052, Tacoma, WA 98401TacIWW@iww.orgOlympia GMB: PO Box 2775, 98507, 360-878-1879olywobs@riseup.netSeattle GMB: 1122 E. Pike #1142, 98122-3934.206-339-4179. seattleiww@gmail.com
Wisconsin
Madison GMB: PO Box 2442, 53703-2442. www.madisoniww.info.Lakeside Press IU 450 Job Shop: 1334 Williamson,53703. 608-255-1800. www.lakesidepress.org.Madison Infoshop Job Shop: 1019 Williamson St. #B,53703. 608-262-9036.Just Co
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The working class and the employingclass have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and wantare found among millions of workingpeople and the few, who make up the em-ploying class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a strugglemust go on until the workers of the worldorganize as a class, take possession of themeans of production, abolish the wagesystem, and live in harmony with theearth.
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he IWW is a union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our communities both to win better conditionstoday and to build a world without bosses, a world in which production anddistribution are organized by workers ourselves to meet the needs of the entire popu-lation, not merely a handful of exploiters. We are the Industrial Workers of the World because we organize industrially –that is to say, we organize all workers on the job into one union, rather than dividing
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Since the IWW was founded in 1905, we have recognized the need to build a truly international union movement in order to confront the global power of the bossesand in order to strengthen workers’ ability to stand in solidarity with our fellow  workers no matter what part of the globe they happen to live on. We are a union open to all workers, whether or not the IWW happens to haverepresentation rights in your workplace. We organize the worker, not the job, recog-
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 but about workers coming together to address our common concerns. Sometimesthis means striking or signing a contract. Sometimes it means refusing to work withan unsafe machine or following the bosses’ orders so literally that nothing gets done.
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 workplace, or across an industry.Because the IWW is a democratic, member-run union, decisions about what issuesto address and what tactics to pursue are made by the workers directly involved.
IWW Constitution Preamble
Contract Battle At ‘Boston Globe’ Exemplifies Industry’s Pain
 workers understand that the problemgoes beyond greedy bosses. The for-
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them any longer.
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a losing battle against the inher-ent openness of the internet. Effortsto make users pay for content havefailed because the ensuing drop-off inreadership at pay-for-use websites un-dercuts advertising revenue. Further-more, readers can switch to competingsources in a matter of seconds.Revenue at New England MediaGroup, the regional advertising wingof the New York Times Co., plungedmore than 30 percent in the last year.Under the additional challenge of ageneral economic crisis, the owners of the
 Boston Globe
are predicting a $85million shortfall this year. It is unclearif the
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-able or if it is just making less thanenough to make investors happy. Afterthe
 Baltimore Sun
made similar claims
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 According to national statistics,
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about 23 percent on average in 2000. With access to the internet easier andfaster than ever before, many readersare making the switch for their daily news, while advertisers are switchingto target their audiences at a lessercost. Are the same productive forcesthat destroyed union jobs and gave
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past now threatening to put them outof business?
 A New Model is Necessary 
 Without a movement for a new economic model, those newspapersthat remain will probably only becomemore desperately subservient to cor-porate messages. Journalists who wishto continue working in the industry should not be expected to go down with this sinking ship while stockhold-ers and executives plan their escape.Newspaper workers need radical ideasand bold action to avoid the demise of their industry and save their jobs.Newspaper workers must unite
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such as reader-supported community 
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-eratives. They must also demand thattheir unions play a leadership role inadvocating, organizing and defendingthese changes.This could be a positive develop-ment toward having a media that ismore accountable to the public. But toget readers to pay when so much freecontent is available online, newspapersthemselves must change. They mustoffer more original news and analysis.They must serve the public interest.Readers must be given a stronger voicein shaping what news is covered andhow.
By Matthew Andrews
The New York Times Co. is demand-ing $20 million in concessions fromemployees at the
 Boston Globe
and itlooks likely they will get it. Divided by craft into seven different unions,
Globe
 employees have been forced to acceptconcessionary contracts one by one. TheNew York Times Company, which pur-chased the paper in 1993 for $1.1 billion,has won nearly all the cost-cutting mea-sures they wanted. The Boston Newspa-per Guild is the largest union and wasthe last of seven to come to an agree-ment. For a few days the Times Co. eventhreatened that the paper would perma-nently close, during which time three of the remaining four unions settled theirnegotiations.
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Concessions
Under the proposed contract forGuild members, some 600 workers faceconcessions of $10 million including an
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end to lifetime job guarantees held by about 190 members.The contract under considerationincludes a pension freeze, eliminationof company contributions to retirementplans, a cut of more than $800,000 incompany contributions to the healthcareplan, elimination of life insurance ben-
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 would also increase the workweek from37.5 hours to 40 hours.
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-line for negotiations passed, the Guildmade the unorthodox decision to pres-
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Times Co., without making a recommen-dation for or against it. It appears theGuild believes this is the best deal they are going to get, yet they are not will-ing to sell it to their membership. If thecontract is not approved, the Times Co.has threatened a 23 percent across-the- board pay cut. The vote was slated to beheld on June 8 or 9.
Lifetime Guarantees
The plan to eliminate lifetime jobguarantees has been one of the mostcontroversial aspects of the contract un-der consideration. The lifetime job guar-antees were given to Guild workers hired before 1992 in exchange for eliminatinga “no layoff” clause in the contract. Theguarantee only applies in the event of 
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cause. Although 55 more Guild members were given this protection in 1999, lessthan one-third of the Guild’s member-ship is now covered.The daily newspaper was once amajor manufacturing endeavor, requir-ing skilled tradesmen who set type,composed pages, engraved photos, ranthe presses, and packaged the paper fordelivery. With the advance of automa-tion and computers, unions gave upminimum manning requirements andother job protections, allowing produc-tion to be reorganized. In exchange they  won employment guarantees to ensurethat workers would be reassigned to new tasks rather than eliminated. Neverthe-less, the workforce shrunk as the needfor these workers declined and unionpower receded. Although the decisionto not protect new workers may haveseemed like a minor concession in 1994,today the issue is dividing the union be-tween new and old workers. Now it ap-pears layoff protection could disappearcompletely. Workers must learn that acontract that protects their jobs is only as strong as the union that negotiated it.
Changes in Production
The traditional business model of newspapers has been to sell their audi-ence to the advertisers. That’s where themoney is made. It also has meant thatnewspapers must attract wealthy readersand set a business-friendly tone in orderto satisfy the needs of their true custom-ers, the advertisers.The cost of advertising is built intoevery consumer product. Each time we buy a product we pay for the cost of ad- vertising it. So we already indirectly pay for the journalism that advertising sup-ports, whether we like it or not. In truth,advertising is a wasteful enterprise withuniversally antisocial ends such as mak-
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in our own self-worth, and uncritical of corporate messages. The journalism thatit supports provides no incentive for usto challenge corporate power or marketforces.Now that advertising revenue is dry-ing up and unlikely to return, newspa-pers are cutting back or closing downacross the country. The profession of  journalism is dying at daily newspapersin cities across the U.S. Newspaper workers still have the potential to exer-cise collective power at work, but underthe limits capitalism has placed on theiremployers, they see little point. These
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