workplace activity
Articles, interviews and accounts about organising at work, problems people have come up against and lessons they have learned.
Direct action at an electronics factory
A brief account of workers' co-operation and workload-reduction at an electronic transformer factory by Jay, a coil winder .
A bank tellers' sabotage
A brief account of sabotage by bank staff, by Jason, a (former) bank teller.
I was sick of starving so I needed a job. I walked into the California Employment Development Department and this was posted on the wall: "Be a bank teller. We'll train you." I didn't have any experience at all. I just went in and took an aptitude and math test and aced them both. Then I went to a week of teller school that was run by Bank of America.
An account of car factory sabotage
A brief account of sabotage at a car manufacturers in Detroit by Eugene, a carburator assembler.
An account of a factory strike
A brief account of sabotage and a strike at a factory in the United States by Nick, an assembly line worker
Harvesting sabotage in Texas
A brief account of farm workers' co-operation and workload-reduction by Tad, a combine harvester driver
US - bike messengers' action
A brief account of direct action by bicycle messengers by Kenny, a courier
Kmart employee sabotage
An account of some low-payed discount chain store employees ensuring they got a fairer reward for their labour by Karl, a stock clerk
US - restaurant sabotage
A brief account of sabotage at a seafood restaurant, by Chuck, a bus boy
Self-organisation and action in the US post office
An account of sabotage, solidarity and wildcat strikes at a large postal sorting office in the US by Judi, a mail handler
Sabotage at an aeroplane parts factory
An account of sabotage at a small manufacturing firm in California by Burt, a machinist
