IWW Picket for NYC Warehouse Workers

Brooklyn, NY, July 2007 - They work 115 hours a week, earning under $4 dollars an hour. In New York City, where minimum wage is $7.15 and a studio apartment may cost $900 a month or more, workers at HWH Trading Company work in conditions that are closer to slavery than anything else. Three Latino employees decided to unionize and join the Industrial Workers of the World in order to demand fair conditions. Their employer denies being their employer but asserts that they make $2000 per week. Please watch the following video and decide for yourself where the truth lies.

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[Catholicwob]

This was a great video. Please keep us informed on whats going on. Keep fighting! Long live the working class

[LarryRickenbacker]

Who says Unions are out-dated?

[reaj2010]

This is a retarded video. It's illegal workers asking for legal pay. And its some old jackass trying assert himself. I Will say the pay was too low for sure. But if I was those Mexicans I would refuse to work over 50 hours its that simple. Of course illegals should work for less than a citizen though there not paying tax But not 100 hour weeks.

[IWWXno]

It is passed the time for the workers of the world to organize as a class to take and hold the means of production.

All is for All!

[Rundstedt1]

(3/3)

In order to apply economic pressure, the IWW is now informing the public and customers of the restaurants that use HWH Trading/Dragonland to encourage these restaurants to switch to a different supplier. Here is a report from the Providence Journal about a march on one of HWH's biggest customers, Jacky's Galaxie.

So the fight continues and the pressure on them must be maintained.

WOWU (Workers Of the World Unite)

[Rundstedt1]

(2/2)

The owner also locked the warehouses loading bay doors shut in order to prevent ventilation, effectively pushing temperatures into the 90s. When the workers didn't quit, he moved his operations down the street without informing the workers, effectively firing them. The NY State Attorney General should now have a strong case for the failure to pay overtime over the years and a retaliation charge based on the owner's actions after the march.

[Rundstedt1]

(1/2)

This is from unionreview(dot)com - By Elizabeth Gudrais Since I posted the video of our march on HWH Trading Corp., the owner changed the company's name to Dragonland Trading Corp. and has retaliated against the union workers by cutting their hours unreasonably from 115 per week (too many) to 40 per week (not enough to live on). Those 40 hours were spent doing heavy lifting in HWH's warehouse from 12am to 8 am.

[pataphysician66]

This was posted some time ago- any progress since then?

[NortonYorksterdam]

I wouldn't say that unions are outdated but I would certainly say that the IWW and their White, 60's throwback primitivism is outdated.