Organizing Work

Twitter account for the website which looks at the nuts and bolts of organizing and debates union strategy

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📢📢 NEW EPISODE!!!📢📢

Back from hiatus with a discussion about 3 strategies for reviving the labor movement:

Organize the unorganized
The rank and file strategy
Form new types of unions

Marianne Garneau of @OrganizingWork joins the conversation!

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The very legislation that gave workers the right to strike also ensured strikes would become less frequent https://t.co/gXwjvF9vkR

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This is how it's done: strike when a coworker is unjustly fired. Notice also how it's BCG in reverse. Boss appealed the public, dragging worker's name to parents and the press. The union used straight industrial action (affecting the public). https://t.co/KRj7yIisSh

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The left sees the working class as an object, not a subject. “Vote for us, we will impose a better contract on the workers!”

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It is incredible that most left commentary on the rail bill is focused on the lack of paid sick leave and not the fact that it’s a deal imposed on the workers

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And yet most of the political pushback is either moralizing (“this is a sellout!”) or supposed pragmatism (“the point is to get them sick days”).

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Labor movement commentary is rife with both doom forecasts and sky-high optimism. Matthew Dimick pushes back against both https://t.co/xVWMenPLQM

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In honor of Mike Davis: this piece inspired by his pamphlet "The Stop Watch and the Wooden Shoe" https://t.co/w3YzOHU2NO

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"After the paper is signed [the employer] will only live up to it on condition that the union is strong enough to enforce it; and if the union is that strong, it doesn’t need the piece of paper." https://t.co/MrC2dfP7Pl

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@eidlin Presidential intervention or the threat of a strike?

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A dancer describes her experience working in the stripping industry and why it needs to be organized https://t.co/hKF5jLA3wb

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"the question is not whether the Wagner Act was good or bad for the labor movement, but what kind of labor movement a statist regime of labor relations is likely to foster" https://t.co/o7ykBYvxz6

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A nice reflection on the relationship between left parliamentary goals and class struggle at the point of production https://t.co/ka9NuGJ5MO

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Although contracts have always been controversial in IWW history, the union has signed a few in recent years. Here's how they measure up against collective agreements elsewhere https://t.co/2ofqhd5iz1

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Company: “The union is just a business.”
Union: “You should see what a great deal membership is!”

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@thehousered It's abysmal and much of the rest of the IWW tried to prevent it from happening, not least because it violates the IWW's constitution

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Some very good, concrete, practical advice in here by a worker who tried organizing their workplace https://t.co/IMtrqlelJV