A restaurant worker describes how he and his coworkers have used direct action to enforce safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic
Wrestlers have always wanted a union. Why don’t they have one?
Dave Powell breaks down the history of organizing in professional wrestling, and why these workers need a union
Frontline hospital workers wildcat against massive cuts to public healthcare
Marianne Garneau reports on a wildcat in progress in Alberta
How Graduate Students Organized Their Recent Strike in Michigan
The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Michigan recently went on a seven-day strike over COVID and policing issues, during the contract
Negotiation By Other Means: The WGA Brings the Agencies to Heel
MK Lees describes how the Writers Guild of America West used rank-and-file action to protect screenwriters and put an end to a practice that was eating into their compensation
Activists, not allies: Organizing in a distributed workforce
Bob Barnetson describes a campaign by his faculty association at Athabasca University, a public, higher education distance learning institution in Alberta. During a contract fight, the union made the bold move of just mobilizing members for pickets and not relying on community supporters
Attacking the trades in Alberta
K Turner reports from the Boilermakers’ Lodge 146 picket line at CESSCO Fabrication and Engineering in Edmonton, as the Alberta government introduces legislation to curtail workers’ ability to picket
“It has taken a pandemic to come to this long overdue point”
Workers at Tattersall Distilling in Minneapolis were spurred to form a union by their employer’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizing Work contributor Jean-Carl Elliott interviews a worker in the shop
Fact Check: Have there been 500 wildcat strikes in June?
Chris Brooks looks at the data supporting a BLM- and coronavirus-inspired strike wave