Reading Group on Fast Food Strikes: Saturday September 21st: 6-8 PM

Hello friends and comrades,

           The article I posted here yesterday will be among three articles discussed at an upcoming reading group in Boston. Check it out, it looks like it will be a good and timely discussion.

 

Common Struggle Reading Group – Fast Food Workers, Recent Strikes, and “Alternative” Labor

-Saturday September 21st: 6-8 PM reading group at Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston, MA, 02116, in Copley Square.

This summer, fast food workers across the country have launched strikes and pushed for unions and better jobs. SEIU has played a large role in this movement, utilizing a “new” or “alternative” labor model, supporting smaller, independent workers’ initiatives, organizing symbolic strikes, and pushing for a higher national minimum wage. Locally, workers at Insomnia Cookies recently launched a strike and joined the Industrial Workers of the World.

Join us to discuss the strategies of and relationships between “Alt” labor, industrial and direct-action unionism, and the growing movement of fast food workers, with three short readings to guide our discussion.

 

Readings:

1. Fast food strikes to massively expand: “They’re thinking much bigger” By Josh Eidelson.
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/14/fast_food_strikes_massively_expanding_th…

2. Venture Syndicalism: Fanning and dousing the flames of discontent. By Nate Hawthorne.
http://libcom.org/blog/venture-syndicalism-fanning-dousing-flames-discon…

3. Striking Workers at Insomnia Cookies Join the IWW. By Jake Carman.
http://iwwboston.org/2013/09/11/striking-workers-at-insomnia-cookies-joi…

-Optional supplemental reading:

1. Upper Crust Pizzeria To Reopen as ‘The Just Crust.’ By Nikki D. Erlick,

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/1/23/upper-crust-reopening/

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