At Rich Products Plant In L.A. Area. Since November 3, the group of well over 100 strikers has been on the picket line at the Rich Products-owned Jon Donaire Desserts plant, demanding better wages, improved retirement benefits, and changes to the company’s abusive, punitive point system, which provides workers with only three days of sick leave per year. Santa Fe Springs, California – In Santa Fe Springs, California, located in the Los Angeles area, a group of largely immigrant Latina factory workers is waging a high-stakes strike against the multibillion-dollar food manufacturing company Rich Products. Since November 3, the group of […]
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Above Photo: Two workers from the 31st Street El Milagro Factory hold up a giant burrito and a giant tortilla with a sign that reads “Mistreatment Tortillas” at the walkout on 26th Street. Francesca Mathewes/Block Club Chicago. Workers were locked out Thursday night and had to wait for hours to get their personal belongings. On Friday, they were let in — but an armed security guard was there. Little Village – An employee-led work stoppage at the El Milagro tortilla factory turned into a lockout Thursday night. The employees at El Milagro tortilla factory partnered with Arise Chicago to stage a […]
Above Photo: An employee is seen at the new Amazon warehouse during its opening announcement on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico July 30, 2019. Picture taken July 30, 2019. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) Amazon and its hyper-neoliberal cheerleaders are polishing turds again. Jeff Bezos, the billionaire spaceman, and his company are about to ‘lift the working class’ by creating new ‘factory towns,’ Bloomberg writes. “Plentiful new jobs at higher wages in places with cheaper housing sounds like a solution to inequality,” investment adviser Conor Sen wrote in a piece for the news agency. Bloomberg and Amazon are putting such a shine on this idea, […]
Italian industrial and military vehicle manufacturer Iveco announced that it has launched a new final assembly plant in Petresti (Dambovita), Romania. “After the groundbreaking ceremony held in August 2020 in Petresti (DB), Romania, the new production plant has rapidly been built and the production ramp-up has already started in February thanks to a solid industrial partnership,” the company said in a statement. The inauguration took place on April 9th, according to a company news release. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – In December 2019, Iveco Defence Vehicles signed an order with the Romanian Ministry of National Defence as part of […]
Chinese bitcoin miner manufacturer MicroBT is looking to grab a bigger slice of the U.S. market by setting up its first overseas production center. The company said on Friday that it has partnered with New York-based Foundry Digital LLC and a Southeast Asian company in order to improve supply chain efficiencies for North American buyers of its flagship bitcoin mining equipment. The Southeast Asian listed company – which MicroBT declined to name – is contracted to produce and deliver MicroBT’s WhatsMiner equipment to U.S. investors, who would otherwise pay an additional 25% tax if they receive shipments directly from China due […]
Occupation Of UK Factory Involved In Israeli Drone Manufacture By Joe Gill, Middle East Eye. September 17, 2020 Occupation Of UK Factory Involved In Israeli Drone Manufacture2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/pal-laction-occupation-e1600354079762.jpg200px200px Above photo: Activists scaled the building at UAV Engines factory, where engines for Elbit Systems drones are built in Shenstone, near Birmingham. Palestine Action. A direct action group is pushing to end the UK’s military complicity with Israel’s human rights abuses. Direct action protests against Israel’s largest weapons company have escalated in the UK, with an occupation of a factory building engines for drones used by Israel’s army entering its third day on Wednesday. Protests […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano Senior army officers, national intelligence officials, CIA analysts and even Israeli cyber experts. These are the teachers who train the students at Link Campus University in Rome. Especially in the exclusive Master in Intelligence and Security intended on paper for future managers of national authorities and agencies, employees of the arms industry, scholars of geopolitics and strategic affairs but in fact a real “forge” of 007 agents ready to be recruited by the Italian secret services , by the military ones of NATO or by the American Central Intelligence […]
Residents of Medway, Kent, endured scenes straight out of an apocalyptic nightmare on Friday after a series of large explosions at an industrial building sent mushroom clouds towering above their homes. An enormous blaze broke out at the building in the early hours of Friday morning and locals reported being woken by a series of bangs. The fire strengthened over the course of several hours and by sunrise huge plumes of smoke could be seen for miles around. The local fire brigade said that 10 fire engines rushed to the site to battle the inferno. Video footage from the scene captures […]
Striking workers participate in anti-government protests on Monday in Minsk, Belarus. Misha Friedman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Misha Friedman/Getty Images Striking workers participate in anti-government protests on Monday in Minsk, Belarus. Misha Friedman/Getty Images The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, vowed Monday to cling tightly to power as many factory workers walked off their jobs and joined with hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters demanding his immediate resignation. Lukashenko, who had flown by helicopter to a factory in Minsk in hopes of rallying support, was instead met with chants of “Leave!” Speaking to workers, he vowed to “never cave in […]
The massive blast that shook Beirut was likely caused by a fatal mishandling of hazardous materials, mirroring the explosion that leveled a fertilizer plant in France some two decades ago, a chemist and detonations expert told RT. Tuesday’s explosion tore through a port chemical depot and sent a towering fireball and mushroom cloud into the sky over Beirut, leaving more than 70 people dead and some 4,000 injured. Though US President Donald Trump has mused that the incident was an “attack” caused by “some kind of bomb,” Frolov – who heads the combustion and explosion department at the Semenov Institute of Chemical […]
Radiopharmaceuticals are a unique category of medicinal formulations which contain radioisotopes used for the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of illnesses. Russian nuclear specialists have begun work to create a modern factory for the production of radiopharmaceutical drugs for targeted cancer treatment, JSC Central Design and Technological Institute (JSC CDTI), the Rosatom TVEL subsidiary tasked with designing the plant, has announced in a press statement. The plant is expected to be built on the territory of Rosatom’s Karpov Scientific Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry in Obninsk, about 80 km south of Moscow, and is expected to begin production by […]
At least two people were killed and a further three injured in an explosion at a factory in the Iranian city of Baqershahr near Tehran in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The explosion took place shortly after 3am local time and was reportedly the result of “negligence in filling oxygen tanks,” according to the Kahrizak district governor. Emergency services immediately scrambled to the scene and prevented the resulting fire from spreading to nearby buildings in the industrial estate. An explosion reportedly damaged a factory south of Tehran in the early hours of Tuesday, the latest in a series of blasts […]
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Amid ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran over the latter’s nuclear program, a series of blasts have occurred in Iran near Tehran’s Parchin military complex, at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) and a power plant in Ahvaz, with reports claiming that Iranian officials regard the incidents as “sabotage”. A large explosion at the Sepahan Boresh factory in the city of Baqershahr near Tehran on Monday night left at least two people dead and three injured, according to Iranian and foreign reports cited by The Jerusalem Post. The blast was reportedly heard by residents of areas south of Tehran and in […]
Facebook fact-checker Lead Stories is a biased outfit bristling with ex-CNN staffers that presents itself as neutral, despite most of its employees having donated to the Democratic Party, a conservative outlet has revealed. The National Pulse (TNP), whose story about supposed financial links between Black Lives Matter, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and fundraiser ActBlue was flagged as “partly false” by Lead Stories on Facebook, did some digging on Wednesday to find out who was behind the smear, after their efforts to contest the label were apparently stonewalled. Alan Duke didn’t want to speak, and urged me to email him to […]
Children Protest For Their Parents At The Smithfield Foods Meat Factory By Taylor Trujillo, KLKN TV. May 12, 2020 Children Protest For Their Parents At The Smithfield Foods Meat Factory2020-05-122020-05-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/meat.png200px200px Protesters rallied another Saturday for better working conditions at Smithfield Foods. Saturday in Crete was the second round of drive–by protests against the lack of COVID–19 safety conditions at Smithfield Foods. Protestors were seen donning signs down main street with sayings like “essential not disposable.” The workers, experiencing a quick turnaround on Tuesday that didn’t give them the initial 2 week closure they were hoping to get. “When are we going […]
Saturday in Crete was the second round of drive–by protests against the lack of COVID–19 safety conditions at Smithfield Foods. Protestors were seen donning signs down main street with sayings like “essential not disposable.” The workers, experiencing a quick turnaround on Tuesday that didn’t give them the initial 2 week closure they were hoping to get. “When are we going to stop? When 300 people are sick? Is that where the COVID is going to stop,” said Sheila Balbuena, whose parents are working at the plant. “We would rather not eat meat for weeks or even months as long as everyone’s […]
Elon Musk says he will move his Tesla plant to Texas or Nevada after the county health official closed his plant due to coronavirus. Musk does not like the rulings by the “unelected and ignorant Interim Health Officer” from Almeda County. Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected & ignorant “Interim Health Officer” of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2020 Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If […]
Jose de los Rios works at a Procter & Gamble plant in Mehoopany, Pa., that makes Charmin toilet paper and other products. The factory has been running nonstop in recent weeks. Procter & Gamble hide caption toggle caption Procter & Gamble Jose de los Rios works at a Procter & Gamble plant in Mehoopany, Pa., that makes Charmin toilet paper and other products. The factory has been running nonstop in recent weeks. Procter & Gamble Jose de los Rios has worked at a Procter & Gamble toilet paper factory for almost three decades. And he’s never been busier. “We’re making more […]