MILWAUKEE WI - May 15 2013
The fifth city (and four Midwest city) to see rolling walkout strikes at fast food restaurants was the biggest to date with over 200 hundred strikers demanding a living wage.
Could we see a demand for no wages, no work, no bosses within the next 15 years?
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174335/fast-food-strikes-hitting-fifth-city-milwaukee
DETROIT MI - May 10 2013
Hundreds more fast food workers join bubbling walk-out strikes as the Midwest gets turned up.
Josh Eidleson says in The Nation, “the fate of the fast food strike wave carries far-reaching implications: Fast food jobs are a growing portion of our economy, and fast food–like conditions are proliferating in other sectors as well. Organizers say the fast food industry now employs twice as many Detroit-area workers as the city’s iconic auto industry. These strikes also come at a moment of existential crisis for the labor movement, a sobering reality that was brought into sharp relief in December when Michigan, arguably the birthplace of modern US private sector unionism, became the country’s latest “right to work” state.”
ST LOUIS MO — Early morning May 8 2013
Fast food and retail workers in St. Louis, Missouri, walked off the job Wednesday in the third major strike of its kind in recent weeks. The walkout came after a citywide fast food and retail workers strike in New York on April 4th and another in Chicago on April 24.
Workers at Jimmy John’s in the Soulard neighborhood were the first to walk out in a surprise strike, and employees at a McDonald’s in north county followed Wednesday evening. Organizers anticipated that workers at at least thirty restaurants, including Wendy’s, Hardee’s and Domino’s, would join in additional walkouts on Thursday. Like strikers in New York and Chicago, the St. Louis workers are calling for a living wage of $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. The current hourly minimum wage in Missouri is $7.35.
CHICAGO IL, Williams Multiplex Elementary School
Sit down strike to oppose closing the school MAY 3 2013
“Don’t shut out of futures! Don’t shut us down” #WilliamsProtest #CPSclosings
via @OccupyCPS
CHICAGO IL, LINCOLN PARK—
Student wildcat strike to support a fired teacher May 3rd
on the ground developments here
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil confirmed on Wednesday that an oil spill occurred Tuesday on its Pegasus crude pipeline in Ripley County, Missouri - the same line that ruptured thousands of barrels of oil into an Arkansas neighborhood at the end of March.An Exxon spokeswoman said a resident notified the company of oil staining on the surface near the pipeline on Tuesday. The cleanup of the one-barrel leak was near completion, she said.The pipeline was already out of service following a spill in Mayflower, Arkansas, on March 29, Exxon said.Exxon CARES, y’all.
What, who’s the eco-terrorist? I’d say oil and gas companies have terrorized vastly more people, living things, and ecosystems than the Earth Liberation Front ever could.
CHICAGO IL - SCHOOL CLOSURE PROTEST
School closings vs Homicide Heat Map (2012) compiled by @joinRAD (Radicals Against Discrimination)
ANTI RACSI, ANTI RAHM (A) (E) // March 27, 2013 // Chicago, IL, USA
Chicago anti school closing rally
MADISON + MILWAUKEE WI - UW_MADISON
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison students occupy Chancellor Ward’s office in support of wrongly fired Palermo’s Pizza workers in their struggle to gain back lost wages and be reinstated, as ruled by the NLRB. The students demand UW-Madison cut ties with Palermo’s pizza.
According to sliceofjustice.com, “At a Milwaukee City Hall press conference on Monday, April 15, fired Palermo’s Pizza workers announced that they have filed new charges against the company, and called on Palermo’s to comply with a government decision to reinstate and provide back pay for nine workers that Palermo’s improperly fired in the summer of 2012.”
Other grievances listed on sliceofjustice.com include three known cases of exploitation of immigrant workers, including retribution in the form of deportation for an injury suffered and backlash at 75 workers in their attempts to organize.
follow @PalermosStrike and Student Labor Action Coalition of UW @slacuw/
Austin Dent entered into a plea deal for making a “terrorist threat” involving a the idea of a gun, and now must move to St Louis to finish school. Up until today’s trial, Austin maintained his innocence and all previous reports stated it was an “indirect threat” and hearsay. Austin sat in Andrew county jail just three days shy of four months. Justice was not delivered today, only another railroading right on schedule. http://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/article_d767286e-aef7-5347-b304-4540c841c73d.html
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