Category: Labor

Mottoes and Watchwords

A Discussion of Politics and Mass Organizations, Part 1 of 2 By Nate Hawthorne

Posted: June 17th, 2011 under Debate, Ideas, Labor.

Reflections on Two Years of Industrial Workers of the World Organizing in the Education Industry

By Bruce ‘the Bruiser’ Darden Organizing Stories is a semi-regular series collecting experiences and examining organizing efforts in the hope of providing some lessons for the future I moved to a medium size city in the Great Lakes Region in the fall of 2008; armed, I thought, with experiences built up through years of working [...]

Posted: April 2nd, 2011 under Labor.

Interview with a Jimmy John’s Worker

Interview with Davis Ritsema, by Kevin S. This interview took place last fall, shortly after the NLRB election at Jimmy John’s. We’d asked a couple Jimmy John’s union members about doing an interview, to which union member Davis Ritsema very kindly went out of his way to do one. Unfortunately a variety of factors held [...]

Posted: April 2nd, 2011 under Labor.

Reflections on the “Emergency Labor Meeting”

By Benjamin S. On March 4th and 5th, Cleveland, Ohio saw a diverse gathering of Local Union Presidents, former and current union staffers, and a sprinkling of politically driven rank and file activists descend down her snowy streets and gather at the Laborers Local 310 Hall to hold an “Emergency Labor Meeting”.  The ‘emergency’ in [...]

Posted: March 18th, 2011 under Economy, Labor.

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