Category: Power Building
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Angry Workers’ West London Solidarity Network
Originally published in chapter 2 of Class Power on Zero-Hours from PM Press, CC BY-NC 4.0 In this area of town, where English is a second language and people are getting to grips with the bureaucracy of a new country, navigating life and work can be tricky. We should find ways to support each other…
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We Need More Space for Pedagogy in Our Movements
Originally written and published by Nerd Teacher on their own site Union trainings, for whatever reason, are spectacularly dull. I can’t be the only person who no longer wants to attend workshops, seminars, or trainings where people just rattle off a lecture to participants and tell them what to do and how to do it. I’m tired…
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Where do trade unions go from here?
In South Africa, the seismic shifts in unionism triggered by the Marikana Massacre have sadly not resulted in a union movement better equipped to tackle the issues that workers face. By Naadira Munshi Originally published by Africa is a Country This post is part of a series that accompanies the symposium “Marikana, 10 years on,”…
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How to navigate self-managed abortion issues such as access, wait times and complications – a family physician explains
Grace Shih, University of Washington “Are these pills legit? If I send money, am I even going to get these pills?” These are the kinds of questions people have when they are curious about ordering medication abortion pills online. This process, often called “self-sourced medication abortion,” refers to an individual finding or sourcing medications to…
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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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