MK Lees and Marianne Garneau look at leftists’ poor track record in workplace organizing campaigns
MK Lees looks at the recent union-busting at Kickstarter and GM, arguing that we shouldn’t be surprised when a boss acts like a boss. We should be ready.
This article, written in 2005, describes the explosive organizing then happening at one of the Chicago’s biggest messenger companies
MK Lees digs into the psychological dimensions of organizing.
Tammy Matz has been an LAUSD public school teacher for almost eighteen years and currently teachers third grade at Melrose Elementary school, while also serving as that school’s UTLA Chapter Chair (the equivalent of “steward” or “delegate” in some other unions). Being a parent at more »
MK Lees and Marianne Garneau reexamine whether it is necessary for solidarity unions to declare themselves a union to the boss. This piece originally appeared at Libcom.org. Introduction In an election-driven workplace-organizing campaign, going public is a key step. The workers or union try to more »
MK Lees and Marianne Garneau describe what a solidarity union looks like in the long term, and what it can accomplish. More to the point, they argue against the popular perception that contracts are needed to lend stability to a union, or to achieve major more »
Healthy debate is the lifeblood of progress, in unions too. Here, we have a spirited rejoinder to the last piece we published, by Don White: “Solidarity Unionism: What it is and what it isn’t.” MK Lees argues that, in practice, contracts and solidarity unionism are totally opposed. more »