Marianne Garneau looks at several current campaigns at social justice nonprofits, showing how these organizations are progressive until it comes to their own workers.
An organizing dilemma
A restaurant worker reflects on using direct action versus legal strategies for fighting the employer, drawing on his experience organizing at a vegan restaurant in Montreal.
“We’re the sacrificial lamb”: On the UAW plant closures
Workers on the picket line at the Lordstown, OH General Motors plant reflect on the plant’s closure as part of the new deal negotiated between the company and the UAW.
Fighting with a purpose: interview with a Special Education Classroom Assistant on strike in Chicago
A education paraprofessional and SEIU union delegate describes why she’s walking the picket line
ROC Confidential
Jean-Carl Elliott describes his disillusionment working for Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), and why non-profits are a dead-end for worker power.
Some GM workers feel left out in the cold
A worker at a GM components plant explains why she is unhappy with the tentative agreement between the company and the UAW.
Working class solidarity in action
Electricians in Detroit refuse GM work in solidarity with UAW workers on strike
Interview with a teacher on strike in Chicago
A music teacher and member of the Chicago Teachers’ Union explains what the strike means to him.
A blueprint for a general strike in our time
John Silence describes three ways to make a general strike happen in the US or Canada.