OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD
ISC RemembersMurdered TradeUnionists 16Staughton LyndCommemoratesVicky Starr 4
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November 2010 #1730 Vol. 107 No. 9
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2010 “In NovemberWe Remember”Features 6-13
Longshoremen Wildcat Strikes Halt East Coast Shipping
The ILA did not sanction the strike
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Workers picket the Global Terminal port in Jersey City, N.J. on Sept. 28 as part of a two-day long wildcat strike throughout New Jersey and New York.
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Reno GMB:P.O.Box 40132,89504.PaulLenart,del.,775-513-7523,hekmatista@yahoo.comIU520 RailroadWorkers:RonKaminkow,del.,P.O.Box 2131,Reno,89505.608-358-5771.ronka-minkow@yahoo.com
NewJersey
CentralNewJersey GMB:P.O.Box 10021,NewBrunswick08906.732-801-7001.iwwcnj@gmail.com.BobRatynski,del.,908-285-5426
NewMexico
AlbuquerqueGMB:202 HarvardDr.SE,87106.505-227-0206,abq@iww.org.
NewYork
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Oklahoma
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Oregon
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www.eugeneiww.orgPortlandGMB:2249 EBurnsideSt.,97214,503-231-5488.portland.iww@gmail.com,pdx.iww.orgPortlandRedandBlackCafe:400 SE12thAve,97214.503-231-3899.redandblackbooking@riseup.net.www.redandblackcafe.com.
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LancasterGMB:P.O.Box 796,17608.PhiladelphiaGMB:POBox 42777,19101.215-222-1905.phillyiww@iww.org.UnionHall:4530BaltimoreAve.,19143.PaperCranePressIU450 JobShop:610-358-9496.papercranepress@verizon.net,www.papercranepress.comPittsburghGMB:P.O.Box 831,Monroeville,15146.pittsburghiww@yahoo.com
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ProvidenceGMB:P.O.Box 5795,02903.508-367-6434.providenceiww@gmail.com.
Texas
Dallas&Fort Worth:1618 6thAve,Fort Worth,76104.SouthTexasIWW:rgviww@gmail.com
Utah
Salt LakeCity:Tony Roehrig,del.,801-485-1969.tr_wobbly@yahoo .com
Vermont
BurlingtonGMB:P.O.Box 8005,05402.802-540-2541
Washington
Bellingham:P.O.Box 1793,98227.360-920-6240.BellinghamIWW@gmail.com.TacomaGMB:P.O.Box 2052,98401.TacIWW@iww.orgOlympiaGMB:P.O.Box 2775,98507.SamGreen,del.,samthegreen@gmail.comSeattleGMB:1122 E.Pike#1142,98122-3934.206-339-4179.seattleiww@gmail.com.www.seattleiww.org
Wisconsin
MadisonGMB:P.O.Box 2442,53703-2442.www.madisoniww.infoLakesidePressIU450 JobShop:1334 Williamson,53703.608-255-1800.Jerry Chernow,del.,jerry@lakesidepress.org.www.lakesidepress.orgMadisonInfoshopJobShop:1019 WilliamsonSt.#B,53703.608-262-9036Just Co
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work. The International Workers Order, which helped people with sickness ben-
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-ers access to large numbers of potentialsympathizers. Vicky joined the CatholicSodality and the Young Women’s Chris-tian Association.The women who Vicky worked withpracticed solidarity by restricting output within agreed-upon limits. But they didn’t want to pay union dues. Againit was health and safety that opened adoor. One of the women became para-lyzed because of the intermittent freez-ing air to which the line was exposed,and died. “Within a week we organizedthat whole department,” Vicky said. Women often did harder work thanthe men and were paid less. Within theunion, staff jobs went only to men. “I would be approached by men for datesand they would ask me why I was in theunion, so I would tell them that I was forsocialism.” Vicky learned to play pooland bowl, and got men into the unionthat way.From 1938 to 1940, the Packing-house Workers didn’t have bargainingrights. There was “tremendous ferment.” Vicky recalled:
You had this sense that people wereready to get together, to protect each other... It did happen that
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just closed down.
By the 1940s the union would bringa sound truck and thousands of people would show up for meetings in themiddle of the stockyards at noontime.“The union leadership would be negoti-ating within a particular plant on a griev-ance [and if] the matter wasn’t settled by a certain time, the whole department would walk out,” Vicky recalled.In 1945, with the union recognizedand the war over, Vicky left packing. Shemarried a linotypist from the
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and had three children. Around1950 she went back to work as a secre-tary at the University of Chicago.The National Labor Relations Board(NLRB) decided that the “appropriate bargaining unit” was clerical work-ers throughout the whole university.There were 1,800 of them. More than 18 buildings had to beorganized. After otherunions tried andfailed, the Team-sters launched acampaign. Vicky hadno use for the localunion president whomade $200,000 a year. But 21 stewards were elected by secret ballot before theNLRB election and Vicky, by that time working for the Department of Educa-tion, was one of them. Eighteen of thenew stewards were women. As in the stockyards, grievances werepursued and won before union recogni-tion. And after union recognition “thestewards became the bargaining com-mittee,” Vicky said. Vicky worked for another ten yearsafter the union was recognized. Sheremembered going to the university hospital for medical reasons after sheretired. Gregarious as always, she gotinto conversation with the secretaries.She told them “we helped to organize theunion,” and their response was “thank you, thank you, thank you.” Vicky introduced us to two friendsand fellow spirits, Katherine Hyndmanand Sylvia Woods, and the three be-came the protagonists of the documen-tary movie, “Union Maids.” Sylvia, an African-American, helped to organizea United Autoworkers (UAW) local atBendix during World War II. Memora- bly, she stated in her interview in “Rank and File”:
We never had [dues] check-off. Wedidn’t want it. We said if you havea closed shop and check-off, every
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ing and they don’t care what hap- pens. We never wanted it.
”In these later years Vicky Starr alsoseparated from her husband and becamean ardent proponent of women’s libera-tion. Vicky says at the end of “UnionMaids”:
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ing people, and in union people...
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the surface and that will rise and
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Vicky Starr died in November 2009. Vicky Starr, presente.
In November We Remember:Vicky Starr
Photo: theragblog.blogspot.com
Vicky Starr (right) in “Union Maids.”
November 2010
Industrial Worker
By the Jimmy Johns Workers Union
MINNEAPOLIS – Jimmy John’s will face a government investigationof 14 alleged violations of the NationalLabor Relations Act at ten Minneapolislocations. The sandwich workers’ union
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accusing company owners Mike andRob Mulligan of engaging in a patternof labor rights violations ranging fromphysical intimidation and threats againstunion members, to tightening of com-pany policies in retaliation for unionactivity.“When we formed the union, we were hoping to just be able to sit down with Mike and Rob to talk about some basic improvements—sick days, basicrespect, and a pay raise above minimum wage. We are dismayed that Jimmy John’s has opted to bring in high-pricedanti-union consultants and attempt to il-legally union-bust rather than just cometo the table,” said Ayo Collins, a memberof the union.Franchise owners Mike and RobMulligan have refused to meet withtheir employees to discuss their issues,
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for a National Labor Relations Boardunion election, scheduled for Oct. 22. If a majority of Minneapolis Jimmy John’s workers vote in favor of the union, theMulligans will be legally required tonegotiate in good faith over the terms of a contract.In response to the union campaign,Jimmy John’s has contracted with LaborRelations Institute, Inc., a third party
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comprehensive attack on union sup-porters. With the aid of Labor RelationsInstitute, the Mulligans have begun aseries of “captive audience meetings,”requiring their employees to watchanti-union videos in an attempt to break support for unionization. Other as-
Labor Rights Violations Stack Up At Jimmy John’s
pects of the anti-union campaign havecrossed over into illegality, with reportsof management threats, intimidation,and retaliation against union memberssurfacing across Minneapolis. According to a 2009 report onemployer responses to union organiz-
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scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner, 63percent of employers interrogate work-ers in mandatory one-on-one meet-ings about support for the union, 54percent of employers threaten workersin such meetings, 47 percent of employ-
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organizing committee. Due to these fac-tors, only 45 percent of NLRB electionsconducted from 1999-2003 resulted in aunion victory.In large part because of harshemployer opposition, union density inthe food service industry hovers around
By Matt Andrews
With the support of radicals in the commu-nity, the Boston IWW or-ganized a rally on BeaconHill in front of the Mas-sachusetts State House toprotest budget cuts in thestate and express solidar-ity with the militant work-ers movement in Europe.Speakers recognized theSpanish unions, Con-federación Nacional del
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General de Trabajadores
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mere protest and calling for a one-day general strike. The general strike is theultimate weapon of a united workingclass against the abuses of capital. The
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in Massachusetts against budget cuts infunding for public education and elderservices, as well as ballot question #3, which would cut the state sales tax from6.25 percent to 3 percent this Novemberif approved by voters, further crip-pling the state budget. Many workers
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listen to the speeches. The IWW ban-ner provided a great visual on the StateHouse steps, with the words: “We Standin Solidarity with the General Strike inEurope. No Austerity! Capitalism is Not
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Boston Rallies In Solidarity With Strike In Spain
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the Delaware River are already dragging down conditions on thePhiladelphia docks and elsewhere.The Holt pier is advertisingpositions paying as little as $8.50
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the ILA port in Philadelphia, pay ranges from $17 to $24.50 an hourfor union members working break- bulk cargo, like Del Monte’s fruit.The ILA self imposed cuts of up to $5 million in wages to try toconvince Del Monte not to leave, but thecompany claimed it needed the largercapacity at the Holt pier.
Wildcat to Spread?
Royce Adams, a Local 1291 memberin Philadelphia, said he expects the wild-cat wave to spread south to Texas andFlorida ports where much of Del Monte’s
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Fla. fought off a Del Monte bid to gonon-union in 2003, but accepted a tiered
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younger workers from older.Philadelphia ILA members dumpedpineapples into the Delaware River onLabor Day to protest Del Monte’s plansto undercut conditions.
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-phia is a warm-up for vexing issues
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This fake solidarity is handed out
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we have of ourselves. But above all it is
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buried and buriers disappears amid a seaof inequality in a country where neitherthe society as a whole nor the economy holds solidarity as its guiding principle.For example, while the miners are beingoffered millions in contracts by all andsundry, the company is refusing to pay them for the time they spent under-ground. Now with the miners themselvesrolling in money, they are probably nottoo concerned about receiving their mis-erable wages, but there are thousandsof other less-fortunate workers whoare languishing in one of the country’s Workers’ Hospitals, to the indifferenceof their companies, without any wagesas long as they remain unable to work due to injuries they got on the job. That'scapitalism.But let’s not forget that 439 workersdied in workplace accidents in this coun-try in 2009, and where was the solidarity for them? Where were all the efforts tosave them from their mines or from allthe various workplaces they died in? Forthem there was only the indifferent gazeof the authorities or the criminal en-trepreneurial class—439 human beings with the same abilities, the same right tolive, laugh and enjoy the good things of life as the 33 miners brought back fromthe dead.Beyond the happiness we all feel forthe good fortune these workers havehad, escaping with their lives, beyondthe plastic, show business smiles, beyond all the presidential visits andhugs, beyond all the “generosity” beingparaded before the cameras, I still think of the thousands of unfortunate work-
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with indifference. I cannot help thinkingthat if those same workers had organized
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-ous conditions they were (and still are)forced to work in, if they had resistedallowing themselves to be buried, they would have been treated like criminals. Icannot help thinking about the 32 Mapu-che political prisoners, some under theage of 18, who were considered “terror-ists” and who were left to waste away ona hunger strike which was hidden fromthe eyes of the national and internationalpress, and who are being treated in adisgracefully paternalistic way by thegovernment. I cannot help thinking of allthis, despite my immense joy at seeingthe miners returning to us. What a hypo-critical country!a mere 1.8 percent. A union victory atJimmy John’s could be a major break-through for labor in an industry whereunions have struggled to gain a foothold,even as an increasing number of Ameri-
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food establishments.(
Editor’s note: At press time, the NLRB election was not yet held. For complete updates on this and other JJWU news, visit http://www.jimmy- johnsworkers.org
)
Correction
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IW
, incorrectly statedthat the Cleaners’ Defence Committee (CDC) is a part of the London IWW GeneralMembership Branch. The Cleaners’ Defence Committee is not part of the IWW, it’sa separate collective that IWW members are involved. The
IW
apologizes for thiserror.
Graphic: jimmyjohnsworkers.org
Ottawa Busker Appeals Conviction
By Peter Moore
When the City of Ottawa installedspeakers and started broadcasting
muzak
in Raymond Loomer’s favoriteunderpass, he cut the speaker wiresone day in May 2009. He thentaped the wire on
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the DowntownRideau BusinessImprovement Area,a business lobby group that has waged a campaignto remove streetpeople and per-formers from thecity centre.
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player, he was oneof several
buskers
(street musicians) who relied on theunique acoustics of the downtownOttawa underpass near the RideauCentre to make a living. Loomer is amember of the IWW. He did not takekindly to having his live music re-placed by a machine.“They were playing music to inter-fere with our industry,” he said.City police arrested Loomer andcharged him with two counts of mis-chief. He was convicted on May 25, 2010 with a sentence of 12 months proba-tion and 20 hours community service.Loomer represented himself and has ap-pealed, saying the city failed to provide, by law, informationhe could have used inhis defense and thathe has rights underthe Canadian Charterof Rights and Free-doms to make a livingand enjoy his free-dom of expression.He objected to thecommunity service as“the slave-style prac-tices of government”for appropriating hislabor power.Loomer’s appeal will be heard on Nov.12, 2010 at the city courthouse.Prior to the incident, Ottawa hadintroduced restrictive bylaws requiringstreet performers to get a license andperform in designated spots chosen by the city. But now, Ontario’s Safe Streets Act, brought in to target squeegee kids, buskers and other street people makinga living on the province’s streets, has setthe stage for tighter controls on informal workers.looming in the ILA’s mastercontract, which expires in two years. Early talks may begin assoon as the beginning of next year, and Adams said the ILA action in September stem in partfrom widespread frustration overautomation on the docks andtwo-tier structures throughoutEast Coast ports.Just as important, Adamssaid, was showing dock bosses—and younger members—that the
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-pers look to exploit their ability to shiftcargo when a Panama Canal expansion
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“We can’t let little Del Monte setprecedents,” he said. “If the little guystake you, what are the big guys going todo?”
Note:
On Sept. 30, after the major shipping carriers agreed to participatein negotiations in Philadelphia over Del Monte’s use of non-union labor, the ILAannounced a return to work of NewYork-New Jersey and Baltimore work-ers. It appeared that all charges against the union would be dropped.This story appeared in its origi-nal format on Sept. 28, 2010 in
LaborNotes
. It was reprinted with permission from the author
.
Graphic: iww.orgPhoto: Suren Mooliar
Boston Wobblies rally on Sept. 29.
Longshoremen Wildcat Strikes Halt East Coast Shipping Capitalism’s False Solidarity With The Chilean Miners
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Industrial Worker - Issue #1730, November 2010
Headlines:
* Longshoremen Wildcat Strikes Halt East Coast Shipping
* Labor Rights Violations At Jimmy John's
* Solidarity With Chilean Workers
Features:
* In November We Remember Announcements
* 2010 IWW Literature Review
* ISC Remembers Murdered Trade Unionists
* Longshoremen Wildcat Strikes Halt East Coast Shipping
* Labor Rights Violations At Jimmy John's
* Solidarity With Chilean Workers
Features:
* In November We Remember Announcements
* 2010 IWW Literature Review
* ISC Remembers Murdered Trade Unionists
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