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Fatcat balloon at Boilermakers Lodge 146 picket of CESSCO in Edmonton, June 6 2020

Attacking the trades in Alberta

  • July 16, 2020
  • K Turner

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

Labor law doesn’t advance class struggle, the end

  • July 8, 2020
  • Nick Driedger

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

Wobcast #5 – Adventures in Leftist Leadership on the Job

  • July 7, 2020
  • FNB

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

Tattersall workers gather in a park after announcing their union to management, Minneapolis MN 2020

“It has taken a pandemic to come to this long overdue point”

  • July 6, 2020
  • Jean-Carl Elliott

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

March for Mike Jackson Briggs Stratton Milwaukee July 2 2020

Why is it never “class struggle” when Black workers fight back?

  • July 5, 2020
  • Chance Zombor

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?

What does a worker look like?

  • July 2, 2020
  • Nick Driedger

Nick Driedger and Marianne Garneau argue that union propaganda needs to stop framing workers as victims

Salt: the flavor, not the meal

Salt: the flavor, not the meal

  • June 26, 2020
  • MK Lees

MK Lees reflects on the tactic of “salting” into a workplace in order to organize it

Chattanooga Revenue Strike Posters © Cameron Williams, 2020

Fact Check: Have there been 500 wildcat strikes in June?

  • June 23, 2020
  • Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks looks at the data supporting a BLM- and coronavirus-inspired strike wave

Fighting police brutality from the retail shop floor

Fighting police brutality from the retail shop floor

  • June 19, 2020
  • CF Ivanovic

CF Ivanovic reflects on a time he and his coworkers stood up to management calling the police on community members

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