By Ryan Paul
Between April 3rd and May 8th of 2019, a sit-in protest took place at Garland Hall, John’s Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, MD. It came to be known by university press and other media as the “Garland …
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Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
By Steve Boyce, Jake Edwards and Tom Wetzel – published in Ideas & Action #7, Summer, 1986
Note: As the COVID-19 crisis endangers us in our work places, we fight in solidarity with workers who face this virus with
…Washington DC Rent Strikes
By Ryan Paul
Tenants of Holmead Apartments in the Washington DC neighborhood of Columbia Heights have begun withholding their rent from their landlord: Urban Investment Partners Property Management (UIP). The residents have been complaining of poor housing conditions that have …
Read moreWayfair Workers Walk Out!
By Sachio Ko-yin
On June 26, hundreds of workers and those in support protested outside the Wayfair Boston outlet. The workers quickly organized a walk-out in response to an order the online furniture store received from a government contractor for …
Read moreThe Case for Building New Unions
By Tom Wetzel
The British writer R. H. Tawney once described capitalist management of the workplace as “autocracy checked by insurgency.” And, indeed, a kind of insurgency takes place when workers band together to form unions. Worker unions are a …
Read moreWSA Statement on Iran
Workers Solidarity Alliance condemns Trump’s political assassination of Qassim Soleimani as well as the Trump administration’s continued mix of war mongering and volatile foreign policy. We stand in solidarity with the working and poor of Iran and Iraq who, as …
Read moreWorking More Now But Enjoying it Less?
A timeless article written for the Milwaukee libertarian socialist newspaper “Impulse” (# 4, June 1979)
By Tom Wetzel
In a recent issue of Harvard Business Review there is a report on discontent among American workers, which had been privately prepared …
From down under in New Zealand/Aoteara…
Friends and comrades in the health care sector have initiated the Health Sector Workers Network (Aotearoa/New Zealand).
According to one of their websites the “…Health Sector Workers Network collective aims include agitating for better conditions for people — both …
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