IWW Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia | Organisation

IWW Adelaide

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Address: The Joinery 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.iww.org.au/

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25.01.2022 Solidarity with CHAZ

25.01.2022 Solidarity is digital in the era of #Coronavirus Add your voice to demand paid leave for workers: https://www.megaphone.org.au//coronavirus-don-t-make-uni-s

25.01.2022 From @hiphoprevolt

25.01.2022 NITV's WA correspondent Rangi Hirini has an exclusive special report as police moved in to disband an Aboriginal camp of rough sleepers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

23.01.2022 With around 1 million more workers finding themselves unemployed from yesterday, levels not seen since the Great Depression, it is time for all workers to stand up to the landlord class and the bankers and tell them that no more will they live off the fruits of our labour!

23.01.2022 Did you catch our action in Fitzroy this morning? We stuck aprons painted with workers' stories to locals venues. These gut-wrenching stories are just a small s...election. Casual and migrant workers around the country are struggling to afford food and are facing homelessness. We need to act now. Tomorrow Scott Morrison will push his Covid-19 package through Federal Parliament. Show your solidarity or share your story - hang an apron on your front door, letterbox, balcony or fence and post your photos in our event with #PutYourApronOut and #NoWorkerLeftBehind www.facebook.com/events/258422265184014

21.01.2022 Can I interest you in a lil prison abolition?

20.01.2022 Sounds like both billionaires and capitalism have to go in the nearest bin. No recycling, kids.

19.01.2022 'Stop abusing the homeless' Hutt Street Centre chief executive Chris Burns said there were about 200 people sleeping rough in the city, and the State Government had not given a directive to house them in hotels like it did earlier in the year. "One third of the people who came in didn't know about the lockdown they don't have the luxury of a television or newspaper," he said.... He said when centre staff told them about the six-day lockdown, they were "very, very anxious". "You could see the fear in their eyes," he said. Mr Burns said homeless people who visited the Hutt Street Centre yesterday were "yelled at and abused" for not self-isolating. "They don't have the luxury of having a home to self-isolate [in] and experience the lockdown. They don't watch TV, they don't read the newspaper so we have to explain things to them," he said. "They haven't been put in hotels like the first lockdown their belief is that it's a short six-day event so there's been no directive to take all rough sleepers off the street. "It's a health emergency and we need to do all that's necessary."

16.01.2022 On this day, 2 April 1976, shooting of the first Star Wars movie began at Elstree Studios in England. While its American director George Lucas apparently had ad...miration for the technical skills of the British crew, he was bewildered by their working practices: in particular the tea break. After decades of organising, and many strikes, workers in many industries in the UK had set tea breaks where they would not do any work. At Elstree, work started at 8:30 AM, ended at 5:30 PM with a 1-hour lunch break, with tea breaks at 11 AM and 4 PM. When it was time for a break, the crew would stop work immediately, even if they were in the middle of shooting a scene. This working class culture, of putting drinking tea and having a chat above the work ethic and the profit motive, was one of the things Conservative politician Margaret Thatcher set out to smash a few years later. This earned her a lot of hatred amongst working class communities but attracted admiration from even her rivals in the political class, for example the president of the European Commission Jacques Delors, who told Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore "She demonstrated a sort of revolt against the old British system with their tea breaks. I had respect for that." If you appreciate our researching and promoting people's history like this, please consider supporting us on patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory See more

15.01.2022 To quote a landlord, "There's increasing anti-capitalist chatter. Talk of housing as a human right... I'm frightened of living in a world where we're in danger due to people thinking food, housing is their right!!" We're coming. #rentstrike

14.01.2022 It's Cop Christmas out there folks. Stay safe.

14.01.2022 Wage theft is built-in to their business model.

13.01.2022 Letting people out of prison right now is the responsible & safe thing to do. Most people are in for minor crimes & many are yet to be sentenced. This means we...ll stop #coronavirusaus spreading & saves thousands of much-needed hospital beds. Sign the petition to Stop COVID-19 Aboriginal Deaths in Custody before it's too late > https://buff.ly/2R0cf0G See more

12.01.2022 Workers should refuse to destroy the sacred Djab Wurrung trees. In a world with more strong left-wing unions, and a more politicised working class, this travest...y would not take place. If workers refused to participate in this racist, genocidal destruction, then maybe Daniel Andrews would have to go and do the dirty work himself instead of patting himself on the back, eating donuts and drinking whiskey. Drawing celebrating the historic Green Bans movement by WAC member Hollie Moly. See more

11.01.2022 A lot to consider in this massive revelation.

10.01.2022 Shout out to all the supermarket workers out there - its been really tough but you all rule. Credit: Alec

10.01.2022 Fellow Worker Spears

09.01.2022 On this day, 13 April 1890, African-American dock worker and leading Industrial Workers of the World union activist, Ben Fletcher, was born in Philadelphia. Sta...rting work on the docks in 1910, he joined the revolutionary syndicalist IWW three years later and became the lead organiser of its Local 8 on the Philadelphia docks. At a time when most unions were racially segregated, Fletcher helped build a powerful, multiracial workers' organisation which organised a strike in 1913 and won many improvements. In 1918, after the entry of the US into World War I, Fletcher was arrested and charged with dozens of other IWW members for supposedly hampering the war effort. Despite there being no witnesses to testify against Fletcher, he and all the others were convicted. Fletcher was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, after which he quipped to fellow defendant Big Bill Haywood: ""The Judge has been using very ungrammatical language."" When Hayward asked him ""How is that, Ben?"" Fletcher replied: His sentences are much too long. His sentence was commuted in 1922, and he immediately returned to Philadelphia to take part in a strike for a maximum 40 hour work week. Today we are pleased to be making available for preorder a new book on Fletcher's life, for shipping in November 2020. Get yours here in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com//ben-fletcher-the-lif Learn more about the IWW at this time in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com//wch-e6-the-industrial-wo/ See more

08.01.2022 Don't complicate what is simple.

06.01.2022 "We are very concerned that in very short order, nurses and midwives across the board are going to be asked to do double shifts, to do overtime, to continue to work when they are already exhausted," she said. "We are talking about an already fatigued, stressed and demoralised workforce." Nursing and Midwifery Union South Australia secretary Elizabeth Dabars said the critical work of nurses could be demonstrated by them being on the frontline of dealing with the virus.

06.01.2022 Coles says they have backed down from major cuts to casual shifts in Liquorland but Factory X doubles down on sacking casual workers. We're coming out swinging.... Is your employer sacking casual staff, forcing other workers to use leave or go unpaid? It's outrageous - they made their profits and need to protect workers from wage cuts. #fightbackwithRAFFWU https://www.smh.com.au//retailers-have-already-started-cut

05.01.2022 Cops aren't fellow workers.

04.01.2022 Stay if you want but Ill make sure its not pleasant to Doctor & essential worker before evicting her. Join the strike and fight back: tinyurl.com/ausrentst...rike #CancelRent #essentialworkers https://www.abc.net.au//coronavirus-fears-doctor-/12162880

04.01.2022 Fuck private hospitals, full stop. Only greedy wankers sell people healthcare

02.01.2022 On this day we mourn the workers sent from across the world to be slaughtered on an industrial scale. They were victims of the imperial machine. Today WWI is romanticised and deliberately mis-remembered to stoke the fires of nationalism and jingoism. The IWW, 100 years ago and now, sees this conflict for what it is. State sanctioned murder. Not a single freedom was gained for working people as a result of this bloodbath, but many fortunes were made for capitalists and their ...lackeys. Do not fall for the lies the ruling class tell us about WWI, they could not care less about the actual people that were killed. Then, as now, they were pawns in a bloody game played by the rich and powerful. The best way for workers to to honour the memory of those killed for nothing is to continue to oppose imperialism and war for the sake of war. We will have ample opportunity to do so in the coming years. See more

02.01.2022 We agree. And a genuine step in the right direction would be for SA Unions, in showing solidarity for #BLM, would be to remove the SA Police Association here.

01.01.2022 My name is Makayla Reynolds, Im a proud 21 year old Gamilaraay woman living on Bedeagal land, Sydney. I started work at the Aboriginal Legal Service helping our people because in 2018 my worst nightmare became reality. My brother Nathan died from an asthma attack in prison. It took 40 minutes from the first call of help for someone to arrive, despite the pleas and screams of the young men around him. But it was too late for my brother. ... Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pandemic that will impact everyone. But the most at risk are people like my brother. Aboriginal, chronically ill and incarcerated. My brother, a proud Aboriginal man and loving dad, had a known asthma condition and couldnt survive the conditions of minimum-security prison. The only way to protect our people in prison is the temporary release of those most at risk of dying. We call on all Governments and Corrective Services, to follow the lead of other nations by allowing sick people in prison to serve home detention while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten the community - before its too late. https://www.alsnswact.org.au/free_our_people