Andrei Komar reports on a strike among casino and hotel workers in Phnom Penh.
A Business Basis for Unionism: The growth of paid officers and staff inside the American Federation of Labor, 1881-1912
Part three of our series examining the origin of paid staff and paid union officers looks at the connection to union contracts and insurance plans in the early AFL.
Actors’ Equity: Lessons for a Business Union from a Scrappy Solidarity Union
A member of Actors’ Equity Association reflects on the union’s recent decision to open up membership.
“There Oughta Be a Law”
Catherine Kemp and Marianne Garneau argue that law doesn’t advance social progress, but instead tries to halt the power struggles that do.
The First Union Bureaucracy: Paid Officers and Staff in the Knights of Labor, 1869 – 1917
Robin J Cartwright explores the rise of paid officers and staff in the Knights of Labor and the corruption that ensued. The second in a multi-part series exploring the history of paid officers and staff in labor unions.
Some lessons from a warehouse campaign I wish to share
Alex Riccio offers some organizing advice about developing workers and heeding red flags.
Responding to hot shops
Nate Holdren argues that there is a tension between the urgency of a “hot shop” where workers are frustrated and miserable, and the necessary slow building of organizing.
There is something missing from tech worker organizing
Tech worker Carmen Molinari critically assesses organizing attempts thus far in the industry.
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Marianne Garneau and Lexi Owens look at organizing efforts that eschew unions