Fellow Workers!
On Thursday, May 1, we invite you to march with the I.W.W. during the May Day celebration in downtown Portland!
ALL WORKERS are welcome to join us! Our strength lies in our numbers, and working class solidarity is our goal and the tool with which we will create a better society within the shell of the old.
We’ll see YOU on May Day, at Park Ave. & SW Main St. in downtown Portland, at 3:00pm!
(look for the red balloons!)
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On Saturday, April 12, Wobblies from the Portland General Membership Branch will be traveling to Spokane, WA to present the Introduction to the I.W.W. class!
All workers welcome! Learn more about the key principles and values of the Industrial Workers of the World and learn what the I.W.W. is doing to improve working conditions – and how you can get involved.
The Portland IWW’s monthly Music for the Working Class returns on Wednesday, September 25 at the Red & Black Cafe!
7:00-10:00pm
Special guests: The Synthicalists, and more!
AND don’t miss a special presentation by the Portland IWW’s Food and Retail Workers United!
Every Wednesday is Worker Wednesday at the Red & Black Cafe! All union members and service industry workers get discount prices on food and drinks!
All Trainings Will Be Held at:
1:00 PM at SEIU Local 503
6401 SE Foster Rd. in Portland
Snacks will be available (Vegan Options)
All Trainings Are Child-Friendly!
We will have a space for children with trained attendants.
Please contact the Portland Solidarity Network at (503)-446-6065 (voicemail) or portlandsolidaritynetwork@gmail.com to RSVP or if you have any questions.
Friday, September 7th @ 7:00pm
Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. 97214
“We Are The Working Class” is a collection of images that are meant to remind us of the broad spectrum of the working class, both in the physical make up, and the broadness of the work we do. This project came out of the seeds dropped by the Portland IWW’s Patriarchy Resistance Committee (PRC) made of non-cis males, women, & those not fitting into the gender binary.
During one of PRC’s workshops an attendee said, “I didn’t know that there were women Wobs!” The workshop pointed out how the imagery we use reflects on who will be our members. The IWW has long relied on imagery of white muscle bound men to represent the working class. We need to look forward to imagery, music, literature, etc that will represent ALL of the working class.
This is our first step; we probably won’t reach perfection, but we hope it will get us walking in the right direction. The art you see is both contemporary & pulled from the recent past. We hope to inspire more revolutionary imagery to hang on the walls that will be built on the ashes of the old!
Come enjoy music from I Wobble Wobble, General Strike, one of our beloved fellow workers, Portland Radical Chorus! As always Music for the Working Class will be held on the last Wednesday of the month (August 29th) at the Red and Black Cafe. Music starts at 7 and pushes on into the night when the Red and Black closes.
Join in the fun and the conversation, as the working class learns to organize themselves out of the clutches of the capitalist employing class.
Join us for a barbecue and rip roaring, cliff hanging bocce tournament! If you can, bring food to share and $ for beer. All proceeds will go towards the union’s PA fund!
Saturday, August 11th
2pm-8pm
Brooklyn Park (3400 SE Milwaukie Ave)
Come out (and bring a friend) to our July edition of MUSIC FOR THE WORKING CLASS!
See you there!
Do you have a kid that might want to make a float for the May Day march?
All ages welcome! All kids welcome!
Parents do not have to be in the IWW for kids to participate.
Junior Wobblies is going to decorate a bike cart for the march, using our imagination and materials from SCRAP.
Please send an email with your snail mail address to:
pdxjuniorwobblies@gmail.com
so we may send an invitation to your child.
It’s been one year since Hannah was fired from Starbucks and denied unemployment. Hannah filed an Unfair Labor Practice lawsuit which was determined to have merit and sufficient evidence of a WRONGLY TERMINATED EMPLOYEE. She settled out of court, which meant that the concerted activity charge was dropped, and that Starbucks was no longer required to post notice of the charges in stores.
WHAT WAS HANNAH DOING?
Hannah was a Starbucks worker between licensed and corporate stores for 5 years as a ‘shift lead,’ and in that role supervised Health & Safety standards. She discovered that the first aid kit didn’t have its mandatory bandages, and also learned that fellow coworkers were not receiving proper legally required breaks. She voiced these safety and legal concerns to management.
December 15, 2010: With no prior verbal or written warning, she was pulled aside by her manager and told she was being investigated for ‘fraud’ and suspended ‘until further notice.’ A short day later Hannah was fired via telephone and told to call 1-800-STARBUC if she had questions.
January 2011: Hannah files for unemployment, is denied, appeals, and is denied again.
February 2011: Hannah files an Unfair Labor Practice lawsuit, which is reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board, and is determined to have merit and sufficient evidence of a wrongly terminated employee acting in legal concerted activity.
June 2011: Starbucks settles out of court with Hannah to drop the concerted activity charge and pay some lost back wages. However, due to settling with the company, the charge would no longer be required to be posted and read aloud in the stores.
JOIN US in front of the Starbucks where Hannah worked to let everyone know what happened, and that it is LEGAL to discuss workplace issues with coworkers.
Know your rights! Know what to do and who to contact when you are bullied on the job!
