[news] NYC’s Immigrant Food Warehouse Workers Unionize with IWW - Not Without a Fight

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![][1]**By Diane Krauthamer**

The last year, however, has witnessed something of a social miracle. Immigrant workers in five different warehouses, long bypassed by mainstream organizing drives, began organizing themselves under the banner of the IWW--the famous Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies--and achieving immediate and dramatic improvements in shop-floor conditions. Within the last few months, bosses have begun a major counteroffensive, breaking contracts and engaging in illegal mass firings of anyone engaged in union activities. Mexican and Chinese immigrant workers are standing their ground and with the support of the rest of the New York IWW, battling back in the name of solidarity and dignity of labor.

  


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    [1]: http://www.iww.org/graphics/IU460/NYCmisc/82011.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16961

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