Gregory Butler argues that the DSA and Jacobin’s “rank-and-file strategy” in the construction industry consists mostly in pushing policy from above, leaving out worker concerns and worker organizing.
Nick Driedger argues that red-baiting is overemphasized in the standard histories of the United Electrical Workers’ decline.
MK Lees reflects on the tactic of “salting” into a workplace in order to organize it
Marianne Garneau reviews Angry Workers’ Class Power on Zero Hours
MK Lees and Marianne Garneau look at leftists’ poor track record in workplace organizing campaigns
In the fourth episode of the Organizing Work podcast, Nick Driedger and Marianne Garneau talk about the coronavirus crisis, the defeat of Bernie Sanders, and what both mean for the labor movement and for the left
Ray Valentine argues that the skills built in canvassing for an electoral candidate do not translate to organizing workplaces or tenants
Nick Driedger looks back at how unions behaved, and workers fared, when social democrats unexpectedly won an election in Alberta.
Marianne Garneau takes a critical look at general strikes in Europe, and considers what it would take to import the tactic to North America.