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NJ Transit trains at Hoboken Terminal, 2006 © Aude | Wikimedia Commons

“It’s easier to beg for forgiveness”: NJ Transit workers sick out for Juneteenth

  • June 18, 2022
  • Marianne Garneau

The sickout is a powerful tactic, even when it is unpopular with the public, says Marianne Garneau.

Take action

Take action

  • May 17, 2022
  • Owen King

Owen King talks about the importance of fighting over specific demands early in a campaign.

Rolling the union on

Rolling the union on

  • April 21, 2022
  • Anonymous

A cruise ship worker describes how he drew on previous union experience to organize a successful collective action to win shore leave.

Blizzard © Joe Flood 2016 | Wikimedia Commons

Useful lessons from a failed collective action

  • March 25, 2022
  • Anonymous

The stumbling blocks to successful collective action are important to be aware of. Here, an IT worker relates a story.

Image © Kyle May | Wikimedia Commons

Bartenders bring a manipulative, thieving bully in line

  • March 22, 2022
  • Anonymous

A bartender describes how she and her coworkers stopped tip theft and won pay stubs through a collective confrontation of the boss.

Measuring © Emé Bentancur 2022

We are measuring the wrong things about the labor movement

  • March 8, 2022
  • Nick Driedger

Nick Driedger argues that the legal metrics by which unions are measured obscure what is really important; he offers a different set of benchmarks focused on worker power.

NagaWorld LRSU strike, January 2022 © Mss Kanha

Casino workers on strike in Cambodia face down repression

  • February 14, 2022
  • Andrei Komar

Andrei Komar reports on a strike among casino and hotel workers in Phnom Penh.

Strikes throughout history © Emé Bentancur

Strikes do not rise and fall with the rate of profit

  • January 27, 2022
  • Nate Holdren

Historian Nate Holdren questions the assumptions about why strikes have risen and fallen over the last century.

Delegating © Emé Bentancur, 2022

It won’t grow if you don’t delegate

  • January 12, 2022
  • Nick Driedger

Nick Driedger argues for the importance of delegating union tasks.

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  • Wobcast #1: Not The Standard Playbook

    Wobcast #1: Not The Standard Playbook

    Nov 1, 2018 • 49:38

    Introducing Wobcast!  This is a podcast produced out of the Edmonton branch of the IWW.  It is about workplace organizing, with a focus on solidarity unionism. In this first episode, Nick Driedger explains the difference between solidarity unionism and “workplace contractualism” — the mainstream approach

  • Wobcast #2: Proof of Concept

    Wobcast #2: Proof of Concept

    Jan 17, 2019 • 1:13:15

    In the second episode of our podcast, Marianne Garneau argues that the Stardust campaign in NYC is the “proof of concept” of the solidarity unionism model developed by the IWW. Find us on Stitcher and iTunes. RSS feed here. Hear episode one of our podcast

  • Wobcast #3: Organizing Reproductive Work

    Wobcast #3: Organizing Reproductive Work

    Apr 29, 2019 • 1:17:05

    In the third episode of our podcast, host Rhiannon speaks to Katia Roscov, an early childhood educator, about reproductive labor, such as housework and child care. They note that sometimes it is paid and sometimes unpaid, but it always reflects a gender dynamic in society.

  • Wobcast #4: Crises, elections, and working class power

    Wobcast #4: Crises, elections, and working class power

    Apr 15, 2020 •

    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

  • Wobcast #5 - Adventures in Leftist Leadership on the Job

    Wobcast #5 - Adventures in Leftist Leadership on the Job

    Jul 7, 2020 • 1:07:27

    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

  • Wobcast #6: Talking Politics

    Wobcast #6: Talking Politics

    Oct 9, 2020 • 42:13

    In the sixth episode of our podcast, site publisher Garneau and contributing editor Nick Driedger talk about politics: what it is, whether workplace organizing is political, and where working class power lies.

  • Wobcast #7 - Peter Cole

    Wobcast #7 - Peter Cole

    Dec 10, 2020 • 1:11:38

    Marianne Garneau interviews Peter Cole, author of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, now out in its second edition from PM Press.

  • Wobcast 8 - Class Struggle Unionism

    Wobcast 8 - Class Struggle Unionism

    Jan 7, 2022 • 50:50

    In the latest episode of the Organizing Work podcast, a joint episode with Laborwave Radio, Marianne Garneau and Alex Riccio talk to Joe Burns about his new book, Class Struggle Unionism.

  • Wobcast 9: William Z Foster

    Wobcast 9: William Z Foster

    Jun 27, 2022 • 43:43

    Nick Driedger discusses the life and ideas of William Z. Foster, taking a critical look at his ideas about “boring from within” and the “militant minority” as it relates to union strategies.

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