"I barely survived on Chicago-Lake Liquors wages": an account of a campaign
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Sep 18 2016 03:49
An account by Juan Conatz of an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign at a liquor store in Minneapolis during the first half of 2013.
Wages so low you'll freak - Mike Pudd'nhead
A book by Mike Pudd'nhead about his experience working at Jimmy Johns in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and attempting to organize a union with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) from 2007-2011.
Package Handler’s Report and Analysis
Submitted by Recomposition on Aug 28 2016 23:49
In this essay, IWW organizer Coeur de Bord analyses the first year of organizing at a United Parcel Service hub in Minneapolis outside of the preexisting trade union structure. They show how even a small core of organizers can engage large numbers of workers and mobilize them around concrete demands.
Free parking - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Aug 28 2016 23:24
In this piece Phinneas Gage recalls the challenges of organizing under punitive back to work legislation and the effect it had on shop floor organising. As tensions grow over a dispute about the safety of various parking arrangements around renovated facilities the shop again begins to mobilise. Then tragedy strikes and the workers are reminded that sometimes the cost of a partial victory can be as great as any defeat.
Clarissa, Who Explained It All - Romina Akemi
The fourth installment in Recomposition's ‘How I was radicalized’ series comes from Romina Akemi. She describes working at a garment factory in the American South, where she was mentored by an older co-worker.
Hamburgers vs value - Kämpa Tillsammans
Article by 'Marcel' of Swedish communist group 'Kämpa Tillsammans', examining the relationship between informal workplace activity in a hamburger restaurant, and the broader communist movement, with a section at the end co-authored by Marcel and Gillés Dauve.
Hospital Voice
Partial online archive of a radical bulletin produced for hospital workers in Philadelphia, beginning in November 1970.
Solidarity forever: an oral history of the IWW - Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 30 2016 10:29
A fantastic oral history of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union, based on interviews done for the award-winning documentary, The Wobblies (1979). Compiled by filmmakers Stewart Bird and academy-award-winning director Deborah Shaffer, with historical introductions to each section of interviews by labor historian Dan Georgakas.
WorkersWildWest #4 - Out now!
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jul 5 2016 18:32
Issue no.4 of our working class paper for Greenford, Southall, Park Royal area in West London - We distribute 2,000 copies, mainly in front of bigger work-places, but also housing estates and job centres. For workers' self-organisation and an internationalist position.
From Greenford with love: an interview with the Angry Workers of West London's warehouses
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 21 2016 16:50
libcom.org catches up with the excellent Angry Workers of the World to discuss their ongoing agitation in the West London warehouses and surrounding communities.
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