A street canvasser reflects on a successful NLRB election at Grassroots Campaigns Inc. in Seattle, before the company shuttered the office in retaliation for the union effort
A restaurant worker reflects on using direct action versus legal strategies for fighting the employer, drawing on his experience organizing at a vegan restaurant in Montreal.
These baristas learned the hard way that employers sometimes grant recognition but stonewall workers at the bargaining table — even on changes that would help the business.
The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union is one year old. A member-organizer describes the campaign.
Marianne Garneau describes the volatility of organizing campaigns that revolve around a single, big personality.
Nick Driedger talks about what is at stake when one union tries to “raid” another.
Marianne Garneau sits down with three members of a union in Montreal organizing freelance workers such as translators and journalists.
Marianne Garneau spoke to workers in over a dozen grocery cooperatives across the U.S. and Canada to produce this report on coops’ exploitation of workers and history of union-busting.
We have a saying in the IWW: “The boss is a good organizer.” It means that bosses push workers towards the union with the terrible ways they treat them. But of course, the terrible ways bosses treat workers also sometimes provoke a different reaction: workers