Introductions

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
Submitted by ftony on 15 January, 2007 - 13:22.

This is a forum for those of a Libcom persuasion who are also members of the IWW. You're also welcome to post here if you have queries about the IWW or want to network with people in your area.

Needless to say, this forum doesn't represent the IWW as a whole, and so please do not take people's opinions to be any sort of 'official' line.

Feel free to post up your branch/area, and industry, and generally say hello on this thread...

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Jason Cortez "Wrong on all the crucial issues"
Posts: 1503 Joined: 14-11-04 Location: Deptford, South East London.
15 January, 2007 - 13:26

Any definte details about the mirgant worker meeting in london?

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
15 January, 2007 - 15:18

yep, check it out on the london forums - 3pm start

Jason Cortez "Wrong on all the crucial issues"
Posts: 1503 Joined: 14-11-04 Location: Deptford, South East London.
15 January, 2007 - 15:19

thank for the link you lazy bastard

Jason Cortez "Wrong on all the crucial issues"
Posts: 1503 Joined: 14-11-04 Location: Deptford, South East London.
15 January, 2007 - 15:23

embarrassed i couldn't make a link either.

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
15 January, 2007 - 15:31

i could make a link but i am actually just rather lazy grin

Serge Forward
Posts: 1233 Joined: 14-01-04 Location: Leicester, East Midlands
17 January, 2007 - 16:03

How long has this been running then? I only noticed it last night.

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
18 January, 2007 - 00:49

just a few days.

Nate "If Duke had a fanclub I would join it even if that meant I had to quit Chuck's fanclub"
Posts: 1255 Joined: 16-12-05 Location: Minneapolis, US
26 January, 2007 - 22:09

hey wobs, John put up a thing here - http://libcom.org/forums/libcom-wobblies/wobbly-networking - on how to indicate in your profile that you're an IWW member. A lot of folk on here who are wobblies haven't done so, please do.
cheers,
Nate

ginger
Posts: 210 Joined: 19-07-04 Location: Glasgow
28 February, 2007 - 23:13
ftony wrote:
Feel free to post up your branch/area, and industry, and generally say hello on this thread...

Umm. Hi!

Clydeside GMB. IU 610 (health)

...Off to investigate if can subscribe to forums and get updated if there's posts...

grrregg "advertise here"
Posts: 747 Joined: 22-09-06 Location: the sticks, queensland
8 April, 2007 - 03:52

Hi, gregg here from Queensland, Australia. Just joined the IWW after a long time thinking about it. As I'm an unemployed mature (pah!) aged uni student I am in the Industrial Union 620 - student. gregg red n black star

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
8 April, 2007 - 03:59
gregg wrote:
Hi, gregg here from Queensland, Australia. Just joined the IWW after a long time thinking about it. As I'm an unemployed mature (pah!) aged uni student I am in the Industrial Union 620 - student. gregg red n black star

glad to have you fellow worker!

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
8 April, 2007 - 04:02

- test

j.rogue "Not as good as cops."
Posts: 1446 Joined: 08-04-07 Location: Not Texas
8 April, 2007 - 04:45

Hello! I.U. 660, Lucy Parsons Branch! (ATX)

pghwob "Not an apologist for SEIU"
Posts: 685 Joined: 09-12-06 Location: CITIZEN OF INDUSTRY
8 April, 2007 - 05:14

Welcome, fellow workers! FW Rogue, do tell me how that letter was received.

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
8 April, 2007 - 05:31
j.rogue wrote:
Hello! I.U. 660, Lucy Parsons Branch! (ATX)

glad to see more wobs!

R.R. Berkman "...if I wanted educated discussion, I'd go to slashdot."
Posts: 96 Joined: 27-03-07
8 April, 2007 - 06:21

Hello Fellow Workers and comrades,

Edmonton GMB.
IWW Local 82 - Fighting 'since the Naughts.

j.rogue "Not as good as cops."
Posts: 1446 Joined: 08-04-07 Location: Not Texas
8 April, 2007 - 15:01

Hello! The solidarity letter went over very well among the workers and was an eye-opener to a lot of members who were not really aware that co-ops could have labor problems (liberals. sigh...) You-know-who is doing surveys- I want to get all the dirt I can on her and put it in the next newsletter.

Edited to be more cryptic- though they have better ways of knowing what we are up to...

pghwob "Not an apologist for SEIU"
Posts: 685 Joined: 09-12-06 Location: CITIZEN OF INDUSTRY
8 April, 2007 - 16:43

You might want to edit that post out for strategic purposes. It will come up on a general internet search. Glad it went over well.

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
12 April, 2007 - 10:01

damn i haven't said hi here yet

London GMB
IU 620
...and newly-credentialed delegate as of last wednesday cool

Vasak "Lost in a daydream"
Posts: 11 Joined: 11-04-07 Location: Canada, Edmonton
13 April, 2007 - 07:19

IU620, proudly. I had a Wobbly great-grandfather killed 'cause he was a member, and I figure I'm doing this for myself, for his sake, and for all the workers of the world! Nice to see so many other Wobblies here, actually.. It's awesome! I'm so glad I stopped in; cheers, dudes! grin Nice on that, Ftony. smile

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
18 April, 2007 - 16:52

howdy vasak, welcome to the fray.

wow, are you part of a wobbly family then?

Lucy parsons
Posts: 34 Joined: 02-05-07
8 May, 2007 - 09:49

HI folks. Just joined these boards and I thought I would say hello.

I am waiting for the latest issue of Bread and Roses, has anybody got it? I have heard that it is out.

Fraternal greetings

Lucy

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
9 May, 2007 - 10:55

hi lucy, welcome to the boards. yeah London branch got a bundle of B+Rs a few days ago. as ever, it's a good read, and very interesting in places. not much on the 'news' front though. we should blow our own trumpet more!

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
9 May, 2007 - 22:49
ftony wrote:
hi lucy, welcome to the boards. yeah London branch got a bundle of B+Rs a few days ago. as ever, it's a good read, and very interesting in places. not much on the 'news' front though. we should blow our own trumpet more!

it would be nice if you could mail my branch a copy...er if you have a PDF i'm sure someone will print one out...

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
16 May, 2007 - 09:35

x3 we don't get B+R in PDF. you can email the bread n roses editor to ask him though. his email is on the BIROC contacts list on iww.org

eighthraven "Kinda freaky"
Posts: 9 Joined: 28-06-07 Location: Dallas, Texas
29 June, 2007 - 16:48

I.U. 620 here too...boy there's a lot of us, though I'm not a student. Anyone else with the brand new Dallas/Ft. Worth GMB?

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
30 June, 2007 - 08:17

you're IU 620 but not a student? that's disgraceful! wink

i'm a student and a worker in education, so i have the best (or worst) of both worlds.

glad to hear Dallas/Fort Worth has now been chartered cool

eighthraven "Kinda freaky"
Posts: 9 Joined: 28-06-07 Location: Dallas, Texas
30 June, 2007 - 20:17

i was a student for 12 years...i've had enough of that, thank you very much! i was glad (and surprised!) that dfw is chartered, though there is more activity going on in ft worth than dallas, as usual. roll eyes

convect "armchair anarchist"
Posts: 28 Joined: 09-04-07 Location: State College, Pennsylvania, USA
17 July, 2007 - 20:24

Hey there. Here now. Figured this is as good a place as any for my first post.

I'm in the Austin GMB and have been one of our key organizers for years, but am about to move far, far away, cease all organizing activity, and become a graduate student and a scientist.

I'd love to hear more about the DFW branch. We didn't know there was much going on there. It's a shame...we had a Starbucks worker who lived closer to y'all than to us, so we weren't able to offer her much support. She's now moved to Austin and doing different work.

And though we seldom reported on it to headquarters, we had a lot going on in Austin. Up until this spring, actually. Then our two big campaigns fell apart, we were outmanuevered, basically, and then the annual summer lull set in.

pghwob "Not an apologist for SEIU"
Posts: 685 Joined: 09-12-06 Location: CITIZEN OF INDUSTRY
17 July, 2007 - 22:52

You'd better not cease all organizing activity. We've got a couple of folks in and around State College. PM me.

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