Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed.
Hossam blogs :
The following statement has been distributed few hours ago by the Textile Workers’ League activists inside Ghazl el-Mahalla factories, during the (Saturday) third night shift… The statement, written in a satirical form, denounces corruption and the deterioration of medical services in the company’s hospital, and was signed by “The Mahalla Textile Morgue Workers’ League”…
Image by:
Gaber
Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article visit source
Past Two WeeksFrom: ghostoftj.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-08-25 12:18:27
A lot has been going on but haven’t had enough time to blog here. But some of the stuff that has been happening is:
Bob, the new Building A supervisor has been really pushing buttons and is pissing off the workers as well as the supervisors below him.
Gram hasn’t responded to well to the pre-grievance on a supervisor abusing the workers (”Things are better.” He stated * I roll my eyes *)
Some of the workers have been stating that Gram has been acting a li...
more Capital, Vol. 1: Ch. 7-9From: ghostoftj.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-08-13 17:39:09
Here is a short excerpt from my post on chapters seven through nine of Capital, Vol. 1:
And this brings me to what I found the most interesting and most important point of chapters 7 through 9 (being that I am apart of the proletarian class myself and have argued back and forth with management over this issue a lot). The capitalist always talks about the rate of profit it makes in relation to her or his workers but the capitalist never talks about the rate of exploitation, S/V. ...
more “He’s a bad guy, a union guy.”From: ghostoftj.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-07-27 07:00:22
As I was talking to my co-worker, R, on Friday night (well, technically Saturday morning) he told me that my previous supervisor was actively underminig my credibility with my fellow workers. He was telling him and others on my PD that I was a selfish person who was bad and was some sort of greedy union guy who just files grievances for money (I get paid for that!? Since when!? Damnit! All this time I’ve been doing in for free!).
This isn’t a surprise of co...
more