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Ezio Boero

Ezio Boero è nato a Torino nel 1954. Ha svolto attività politica, sindacale, ambientalista, di comitati di quartiere. Ha pubblicato 3 libri di narrativa e 2 di saggistica: - La Spina 3 di Torino, Trasformazioni e partecipazione: il Comitato Dora Spina Tre, Impremix edizioni Visual Grafika, 2011; - Racconti torinesi da leggere in tram, StreetLib, 2017; - Granata. Una storia di resistenza, StreetLib, 2019; - Racconti inopinatamente decontestualizzati, StreetLib, 2019; - Storia sociale e del lavoro degli Stati Uniti, Streetlib, 2019 (il cui argomento ha proseguito aggiornando via via un sito web specifico con fotografie, articoli, libri e film: https://lottesocialidegli-statiuniti.jimdosite.com/)

Progress in the results of the strike of the workers of the large Californian hotels

Since the 4th of July holiday weekend, around sixty large hotels in Southern California, and especially in Los Angeles, have been affected by extensive strikes, mobile pickets and demonstrations. 32,000 workers (room maids, cooks, dishwashers, bartenders and receptionists) are trying…

For hotel workers in Los Angeles, the road to an employment contract is long and tortuous

Leticia Ortega de Ceballos lives 170 kilometres away from downtown Los Angeles (henceforth, LA). She told “Counter Punch” that she sleeps in her car so she can work two cleaning jobs: one at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, the other at…

Global campaign for Amazon workers’ rights. Initiatives exist also in the United States

Globalization has also brought about the regular consumerist  Black Friday, which fall on the day following the all-American holiday of Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. Initially characterized by queues in front of shops which reduced prices due to…