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Every Boss has a Weak Spot. Find it and Use it.

By Alexandra Bradbury, Jane Slaughter and Mark Brenner for LaborNotes This article is excerpted from the Labor Notes book Secrets of a Successful Organizer, available for $15 at labornotes.org/secrets. Steel production in the late 1800s used to require one crucial step: a 20-minute process called the “blow” that removed impurities, strengthening the metal. It was not unheard…
Funding the Resistance: Social Banditry for the 21st Century

Originally published by ROAR Mag, site now down (hopefully temporarily) At least as early as the first century A.D., shiftas of the Horn of Africa renounced their allegiance to emperors, government and law, and took to the wild where — through their disruptions of the usual business and trade — they would manage to survive as outlaws.…
Auto Workers Turn a Corner for Strike Pay and Democracy

By Keith Brower Brown and Jane Slaughter for LaborNotes Reformers in the Auto Workers won day one strike pay at the union’s constitutional convention in Detroit last week. They also forced open debate on the top concession that has weakened the union in the last 15 years—tiered contracts that condemn newer workers to lower pay and…
Quiet on the Set!

A Recent History of IATSE Basic Agreement Negotiations By Aaron Hall for strikewave.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On October 4th of this year, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE, also known as the IA) announced the results of the strike authorization vote taken among roughly 60,000 of its film industry workers in Hollywood and…
Build Your Own Solidarity Network

By Cold B and T Barnicle Originally published by the Seattle Solidarity Network Republished here from LibCom.org, links throughout added Downloadable PDF Pamphlet version below Contents Introduction ~ Defining the scope ~ Prerequisites ~ Starting Fights ~Demands ~ Strategy ~ A Taxonomy of Tactics ~ Meetings ~ Mobilizing ~Structure and organizing capacity ~ Inside organizing…
The labor-busting law firms and consultants that keep Google, Amazon and other workplaces union-free

John Logan, San Francisco State University American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the reasons unionization in the private sector is at a record low. What you may not realize is that a handful of little-known law and consulting firms do much of…

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Social Revolutionary Analysis and Insights at Your Fingertips

All Articles, Latest to Oldest

Every Boss has a Weak Spot. Find it and Use it.

Funding the Resistance: Social Banditry for the 21st Century

Auto Workers Turn a Corner for Strike Pay and Democracy

Quiet on the Set!

Build Your Own Solidarity Network

The labor-busting law firms and consultants that keep Google, Amazon and other workplaces union-free

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