Nate Holdren explains how the very legislation that gave workers the right to strike also ensured strikes would become less frequent.
Have we learned anything since Striketober?
Matthew Dimick reflects on how strikes are measured and why workers strike.
Let’s find alternatives to striking
Rasmus Hästbacka and Kristian Falk of the Swedish syndicalist union SAC argue for a third path between the “consensus fundamentalism” of mainstream labor bureaucracy, and a “fixation on strikes” among the grassroots, namely re-learning how to build pressure within the workplace.
The Hollywood strike that wasn’t
MK Lees offers context to the recent IATSE strike vote and potential settlement.
Remembering a strike, and seeing how we’ve grown
On the fourth anniversary of a strike, Alexis, a server at Ellen’s Stardust Diner in New York, reflects on the action with her coworkers.
Big Strikes and the sabotage of the labor movement
Marianne Garneau challenges the current focus on bringing back large strikes, arguing that the wellspring of labor militancy historically has been worker-led action on the shopfloor.
How the pandemic kicked off a strike wave in Italy
Morgan M looks at the strike wave in Italy in the wake of government and industry response to the coronavirus pandemic, interviewing a firefighter who is a militant in a local “rank-and-file” union
Hong Kong hospital workers strike
KW Wu and Violet Bell report on a hospital staff strike amidst a growing union movement in Hong Kong
How can workers defy anti-strike legislation?
A postal worker in Canada describes how they are building capacity to defy back-to-work legislation, by “taking back the workfloor”