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Burger King We All Quit

Millions of Workers Are Quitting but Should Organize Instead

  • September 24, 2021
  • Eric Dirnbach

In the Great Resignation, millions of workers are quitting, but they could use assistance to organize for power in the workplace and improve their jobs instead, argues Eric Dirnbach.

The IWW “Communications Strategy” is a Disaster

The IWW “Communications Strategy” is a Disaster

  • September 23, 2021
  • x 362014

An IWW member argues against trying to remake the IWW in the image of mainstream unions.

Samuel Gompers in the office of the American Federation of Labor, 1887

A Business Basis for Unionism: The growth of paid officers and staff inside the American Federation of Labor, 1881-1912

  • September 20, 2021
  • Robin J. Cartwright

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

Actors’ Equity: Lessons for a Business Union from a Scrappy Solidarity Union

  • September 8, 2021
  • Ryan Patrick Smith

A member of Actors’ Equity Association reflects on the union’s recent decision to open up membership.

“There Oughta Be a Law”

“There Oughta Be a Law”

  • August 10, 2021
  • Catherine Kemp

Catherine Kemp and Marianne Garneau argue that law doesn’t advance social progress, but instead tries to halt the power struggles that do.

Workplace struggles are political

Workplace struggles are political

  • July 29, 2021
  • Marianne Garneau

Marianne Garneau challenges a predominant view among labor radicals that “politics” takes place in a sphere separate from the struggle over the control of work.

Workers Rising Everywhere poster

My thoughts after attending the “Workers Rising Everywhere” training

  • July 19, 2021
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A grocery store worker reflects on his experience attending the latest installment of Jane McAlevey’s “Organizing for Power” series.

The First Union Bureaucracy: Paid Officers and Staff in the Knights of Labor, 1869 – 1917

The First Union Bureaucracy: Paid Officers and Staff in the Knights of Labor, 1869 – 1917

  • July 12, 2021
  • Robin J. Cartwright

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.

Unions Before Union Bureaucracy: Paid Officers and Staff in American Labor Unions, 1799-1878

Unions Before Union Bureaucracy: Paid Officers and Staff in American Labor Unions, 1799-1878

  • June 29, 2021
  • Robin J. Cartwright

Robin J Cartwright delves into the history of the use of paid officers and staff in labor unions. The first in a multi-part series.

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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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