On November 7, the Collective Textile Factory Union (KOSIT) organized a march from the CODEVI Free Trade Zone, through various popular neighborhoods in the area, to the center of Ouanaminthe. More than 8000 workers took to the street demanding 500 gourdes ($11.50/day), a pittance. Workers also demanded free transportation, lunch room, health care and retirement. [...]
In just one week, 90 artists, musicians and writers from all over the world — including four Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists — enthusiastically offered their support for the struggle in Haiti for a rise in the minimum wage to 500 gourdes ($11.50) per day! For their statement and list of signatories, read more… […]
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One Struggle member Amy interviewed war protester and Candidate for Govenor of California Cindy Sheehan. Cindy: Who am I? I'm a peace activist and a social justice activist and my son was killed in Iraq on April 4th 2004. Ever since then I’ve been fighting really hard for peace and against the empire, and today [...]
The capitalist class is in deep crisis, and facing the necessity of taking extreme measures to restructure capital for its continued survival and reproduction. The struggle among them over how to handle this has been intensifying over the past 20 years or so, and is becoming ever more politically antagonistic. Even their bourgeois democratic structures [...]
The minimum wage demanded by garment workers in Haiti is almost nothing compared to the lowest wage allowed by law in the United States: Only $11.50/day or $1.44/hour. But it will go a long way to improving the lives of these workers. The current minimum wage is only 300 gourdes (85 cents an hour), and [...]