Eric Dirnbach looks at the effectiveness of consumer boycott campaigns in support of worker organizing
Slow and steady building: what got results then and now
Nick Driedger looks back at three storied examples of worker militancy from the 1930s, noting the often overlooked years of underground organizing that made that possible
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
Labor law doesn’t advance class struggle, the end
Nick Driedger argues two provocative points: that “the purpose of labor law is to condition non-militant unions into existence” and that “union contracts are a way of creating a tiered labor law for different parts of the workforce.”
Wobcast #5 – Adventures in Leftist Leadership on the Job
In our fifth Organizing Work podcast, site publisher Marianne Garneau and regular contributor MK Lees talk about three recent articles addressing the left’s role in workplace organizing — and the massive reaction online
“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
Why is it never “class struggle” when Black workers fight back?
Chance Zombor, a grievance representative at Briggs & Stratton in Wisconsin, challenges the resistance to recognizing Black worker activity as class struggle
What does a worker look like?
Nick Driedger and Marianne Garneau argue that union propaganda needs to stop framing workers as victims.