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Should unions pursue shared governance?

Should unions pursue shared governance?

  • June 22, 2021
  • Dan Knishkowy

Dan Knishkowy looks at the campaign among Old Town School of Folk Music’s teachers for a collective agreement and seats on the board

Daily Worker Headline 1937

Austerity Forever? A reply to Paul Mattick

  • May 11, 2021
  • Nate Holdren

Nate Holdren uses the historical record to refute the idea that union expansion and wage growth are only possible in times of economic prosperity.

Some lessons from a warehouse campaign I wish to share

Some lessons from a warehouse campaign I wish to share

  • April 30, 2021
  • Alex Riccio

Alex Riccio offers some organizing advice about developing workers and heeding red flags.

Refusing to work

“I Live for That Shit”: A worker recalls successful direct action in the workplace

  • April 22, 2021
  • James Nestle

James Nestlé relates examples from his experience of taking action on the job.

Responding to hot shops

Responding to hot shops

  • April 16, 2021
  • Nate Holdren

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.

Sex work will not be empowering until it is organized

Sex work will not be empowering until it is organized

  • April 14, 2021
  • Ashley Ryan

Ashley Ryan argues against the idea that sex work as it currently exists is empowering

Amazon warehouse © Scott Lewis | Flickr

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

  • April 9, 2021
  • Carmen Molinari

Carmen Molinari analyzes why media strategies don’t win organizing campaigns

1919 steel strike

‘Union’ is a verb

  • March 31, 2021
  • Nate Holdren

Nate Holdren argues that “the labor movement has more possible futures than just passing the PRO Act vs the continuation of the present and intolerable business-as-usual.”

Jack Mundey, BLF members and local residents at a Green Ban demonstration, 1973.

Class power can remake society: remembering Australia’s “green ban” movement

  • March 24, 2021
  • Ben Purtill

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.

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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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