Ben Purtill recounts when building laborers in Australia stopped work, first over wages and working conditions, and then to protect the environment, among other “social” causes.
Carmen Molinari argues that viral boycott calls like the recent one against Amazon “point us away from the hard work of building real power.”
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