Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report

National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

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Argentineans Say Fire the Boss!

With

Activists from Workers Control Movement in Argentina

Carlos Alberto Barra – Unemployed Worker Movement

Elsa Montero-x-IMECC–Worker-Run Medical Cooperative

In 2001, Argentina’s economy collapsed. Factories began closing, foreign banks began pulling their money out of the country leaving the poor of the country in shambles. But the workers in Argentina didn’t take this laying down. Instead they started to organize. Workers took control over their factories, seized the machines and once again started to

produce, without the boss. The unemployed movements continued to provide for the unmet needs of their communities, creating bakeries, small cooperatives, and community gardens to provide food and jobs.

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Wobblies Win Victories in Starbucks Organizing in N.Y.C

The National Labor Relations Board has charged 15 Starbucks officials with an extensive array of anti-union acts including the discharge of two baristas for organizing activity. The multi-count complaint, detailing unlawful activity at three Starbucks stores, comes after an independent investigation of the world's largest coffee chain triggered by charges from the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.To celebrate this victory and to further the campaign to organize all

Starbcuks workers the starbucks workers union recently picketed and demonstrated outside the Starbucks NYC's Union Square store urging

customers to pass it by.

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