Trying to frame a real response to Jim Dixon's question--I've googled everything, and facebooked, etc. This is not a typical labor-management dispute--both Sister's Camelot(who are being struck against) and the Wobblies are part of the Anarchist/Green community. It is a dispute between friends, each group perceiving that the other behaved badly.

SC basically gathers surplus organic foods, prepare them, and distribute meals for free in the lower income neighborhoods to anyone who is hungry. Most of the work is done by volunteers,and the effort is organized as a collective. Interestingly, Shuge Mississippi(Jim's son's friend), who is attempting to organize the canvassers/fundraisers to strike against the collective is also one of the founders of the collective.

It is also worth noting that the canvasser/fundraisers get a large chunk of the money that they raise--one third, and in 2010, that was one third of $177,000--$60,000, with the organization keeping $117,000.

The C/F's have 18 demands, which I can't seem to find on line, only some of which are economic. Most of them, apparently, are not members of the collective, owing to the fact that in order to be a member of the collective, you must be a volunteer. One of the things they want is membership in the collective.

Overall, it looks like Shuge Mississippi is actually a manager who
contracts the C/Fs, and he couldn't get the support in the collective for changes that he wanted made, and he wants to bring the C/Fs into the collective where, as their manager, he will have their support.

It is worth underscoring the fact that as a founder of the collective, he was responsible for making the rule that keeps the C/Fs from becoming members of the collective. In other words, he made up the rules that collective is playing by, and now that things are not coming out his way, he wants to change them.

Anyway, since I can't find the 18 demands, don't know if he is right, and the collective has made bad decisions--collective decision making doesn't always work. I do know that the "Solidarity" means that, for good or ill, once the decisions are made, you stick together.

So basically, I think he was fired for breaking his trust with the collective, and for bringing the Wobblies in to force the collective to change it's decisions.

I think that he shouldn't have gotten the Wobblies involved, because he had as much or more power in the collective as anyone else, so it wasn't really a labor/management issue. I also think that it wasn't the best decision to fire him.

The organization is a very small group of lefties who work for little to nothing to feed and inspire--it's the realization of a shared, self-less vision. Unfortunately, I think that what has happened is more likely to damage or destroy Sister's Camelot.
Once the strike stops the food busses, it's going to take a lot more than just money to get them going again.

PS-I find it extremely ironic that the Wobblies are soliciting food donations for the strikers.