information and discussion event on Thursday the 4th September 20 clock in the Turkish People's House, Werrastr. 29 (Frankfurt-Bockenheim)
The IWW IU 460 and the organization of illegal warehouse workers in Brooklyn, New York
workers from Mexico and Guatemala loaded in the New York harbor area fish and seafood in trucks and drive them into gourmet Restaurants along the U.S. east coast. They work at least 60 hours a week, sometimes more than 100 hours. They are paid well below the legal minimum wage. Most of them are illegal immigrants. If they organize a union, they face not only the termination, but the removal.
is to fight this difficult terrain is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) has succeeded in New York to organize the workers so far from 10 warehouses and wholesale companies. Instead of a full apparatus, the key aspect here is the spontaneity and creativity of workers.
The IWW is next to Picket Lines to the boycott. Thus, restaurants along the east coast pressed to accept any seafood and fish from exploitation, anti-union practices application disclosed separately. Furthermore, the IWW and their lawyers successfully in court.
The New York IWW regularly works with "Make the Road by Walking" (hare el camino caminado), an initiative, the community centers operate in immigrant neighborhoods (currently in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Woodside and Jackson Heights, Queens, and Port Richmond, Staten Iceland).
We expect an exciting discussion
- on the terms and conditions of combat illegal warehouse workers
- about the situation of trade unions and social movements in the U.S.
- about the concept of "solidarity unionism" as an organizing approach
- about the possibilities of international solidarity and power of the workers
Stephanie Basile (New York City)
Stephanie is a member of the New York IWW and Organizerin IU 460 Food Stuffs Campaign
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