Category: Organizing Labor
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Grassroots mojo and 4 other reasons Starbucks workers have been so successful unionizing
By John Logan, San Francisco State University Starbucks Workers United won its 100th election on May 27, 2022 – fittingly, in Seattle, the company’s hometown. And the union has notched another 46 victories in the just over two weeks since then. It comes six months after organizers won their first two union victories, in Buffalo,…
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An Introduction on Why and How to Agitate
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be…
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Building Trust, Building Power
This text was originally written by members of the Workers Defense Alliance of the Twin Cities. How Do We Organize? A lot of people talk about organizing. You can ask any union, nonprofit, or political party, and they’ll all say they’re organizing- and even that they are grassroots organizing, or organizing the rank and file. …
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Solidarity Against Sexism on the Shopfloor
Article by Angel Gardener, originally for the Industrial Worker, found on Zabalaza Books If there is anything that I have learned from working in the restaurant and retail industry for over 14 years, it is that sexual harassment and sexism in the workplace is an issue that has not gone away. Perhaps you have become…
