- The Occupied Times – Planning for Protest
Hobbes, when looking at various instances of national celebration and public protest at the gates of Buckingham Palace (a square he learned to despise over his lifetime because of its costly upkeep), knew what was implicit: seats of power will morph into the vacation homes of ruling-class banks
- The Occupied Times – Next Step: Strike Debt
But if I were to frame a demand today, it would be for as broad a cancellation of debt as possible, followed by a mass reduction of working hours – say to a five-hour workday or a guaranteed five-month vacation ”
- Contemporary Crisis and Workers’ Control
The union claimed the company owed the workers US$1 5 million in vacation and severance pay and demanded an extension of the workers’ health care (Cancino 2013; Lydersen 2009) The workers decided to add authority to their claims with a sit-down strike and occupied the factory
- The Occupied Times – Contemporary Crisis and Workers Control
During the first decade of the current century, factory occupations and production under workers’ control seemed to be limited mainly to South America, with a few exceptions in Asia It was beyond the imagination of most workers and scholars in industrialized countries that workers would or could occupy their companies and run them on their own Nevertheless, the crisis that started in 2008
|