About the Madison IWW
About the IWW
About Madison
Welcome to the Madison IWW site!
Submitted by madwobs on Tue, 2006-04-25 18:06.This is the shiny, new website of the Madison GMB, better known to the world as the Mad Wobblies. Here, you can learn all about us and why you should join us.
What is the IWW?
What does it stand for?
What is industrial unionism?
Who can join the IWW?
Midwesterners: going to the US Social Forum?
Submitted by madwobs on Thu, 2007-04-26 03:06.Thinking about going to the United States Social Forum this summer?
Thousands of grassroots activists will be gathering June 27-July 1 in
Atlanta for the first U.S. Social Forum to build relationships, learn
from each other's experiences and insights, and develop the
consciousness, vision, strategy, and leadership needed to make another,
more just world possible.
Organizing info
Submitted by X361064 on Sun, 2007-04-01 15:16.In the Madison area, members of the branch have been organizing workers in the downtown (State St. and Capitol Square) area. For more information, visit the Madison Downtown Workers Union page.
If you live in the Madison or Dane County area, but do not work downtown and are interested in organizing a union at your workplace, please contact us.
The general Industrial Workers of the World website maintains a page with information about organizing and becoming an organizer in your workplace.
Today, 200,000 people got a raise
Submitted by Hayley MDWU Org... on Tue, 2006-06-20 17:20.D.J. SLATER dslater@madison.com
The lowest-paid workers in Wisconsin soon will have a little more change jingling in their pockets.
Today, the state's minimum wage increased to $6.50 an hour, up from the $5.70 mark it reached a year ago. A state law signed by Gov. Jim Doyle on June 1, 2005, put the two-step increase in motion.
"That sounds nice," said Dan McGoey, an employee at Octopus Car Wash, 1039 E. Washington Ave. "It's extra dollars in my pocket everyday. It all adds up."
McGoey, who had made $6 an hour, said he's glad to see the state is looking out for his and other low-wage workers' interests.
Press Release on Starbucks Action
Submitted by madwobs on Mon, 2006-05-15 18:10.******************
For Immediate Release:
Mon. May 15th, 2006
Contact:
Madison Branch, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) #608-262-9036
Starbucks Baristas Union (IWW I.U. 660) #646-753-1167
www.starbucksunion.org
No More Sweatshop Java! -
Consumers, Workers, Farmers Target Starbucks for Union Busting, Biotech
Milk, and Foul Trade Practices
Informational Picket and Sweatshop Java Dump
Wed. May 17th 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Starbucks District Office – 661 State St. in Madison
To mark the second anniversary of the barista union drive underway in
New York City, consumers, workers, farmers, and others fed up with
Starbuck’s hypocrisy will be holding an informational picket and
sweatshop java dump outside the coffee giant’s district office in
Madison (661 State St.) from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm on Wed. May 17th. Free
samples of 100% fair trade coffee, roasted and brewed by unionized
Madison coffee workers, and served with 100% rBGH-free milk from WI
farmers will also be distributed.
