Tacoma and Seattke rank-and-file members of the the International
Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) are showing us the way.
Faced with arrogant bosses and a boss-controlled legal system, they
have declared that the only way to effectively fight back is …
Category: Labor
On Labor Day
Over a hundred years ago a frightened President Grover Cleveland pushed congress to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894. (The September holiday was first observed in 1882 by the Central Labor Union of New York.) In the …
Read moreMottoes and Watchwords, part II
A Discussion of Politics and Mass Organizations
Part 2 of 2 (Read Part 1 here)
By Nate Hawthorne
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Read moreReflections 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 …
Read moreInterview 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 …
Read moreReflections 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 …
Read moreLabor Shorts
Labor Shorts is a regular column digesting recent labor news (compiled this week by Mike Kolhoff and Steve Fake)
Wisconsin
Since the first teacher sick-ins in mid-February, in response to Gov. Scott Walker’s union-gutting state budget bill, events in Wisconsin …
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