Fellow Worker News Today

WGA members will vote this week whether to end strike after 146 days

A drunk Indian national in Singapore was jailed for 10 months on Friday for biting off the front portion of a fellow Indians index finger during a scuffle in April this year, a media report said. The incident took place in Kaki Bukit, an industrial area in Bedok, where both individuals were residing in separate foreign worker dormitories.

Co-workers said Chris Begley, a 28-year veteran of UPS, "embodied the spirit of what it means to be a Teamster."

A letter from an American trade unionist and member of the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) about his experiences as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War and Revolution of 1936-9 in the International section of the anarchist Durruti Column.

Stephanie Sheley, a lunch lady at Holmen High School, has been named the national employee of the year by the School Nutrition Association.

A brief history of the South African Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) by John Philips. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (October 1976)

Remains to be Seen traces the ashes of Joe Hill from their distribution in Chicago to wartime New Zealand. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, it examines the persecution of anarchists, socialists and Wobblies in New Zealand during the First World War. It also explores how intense censorship measures—put in place by the National Coalition Government of William Massey and zealously enforced by New Zealand’s Solicitor-General, Sir John Salmond—effectively silenced and suppressed ...

The current October issue of the “Industrial Worker” of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) includes an interview with the international secretary of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative from Romania (I.A.S.R.).

Members of the Twin Cities IWW take on a creepy boss through solidarity network-type tactics.

A discussion paper put together by some members of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary syndicalist union, arguing for the organisation to build a network of militants rather than attempt to represent members. The paper was never fully finished. The early parts are finished but as the paper goes on it gets rougher and toward the end is more like notes.