📢📢 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!
https://t.co/nJsMjVsCOr
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
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
"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
"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
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