workplace activity
Articles, interviews and accounts about organising at work, problems people have come up against and lessons they have learned.
Self-Activity of Wage Workers
Theories and practices of representation & delegation are a stumbling block in the self-activity of wage-workers. They hinder wage-workers' resistances, refusals and steps of change. What follows is a part of a larger critique of representation & delegation that we are engaged in. We invite you to join us in this attempt.
The workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them
Based on his experience in auto factories, Glaberman discusses the contradictions of the union's role.
Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit, 1969
Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in a Detroit in the 1960s and 70s.
A Warning - Journeymen Tailors in Europe
A warning from the International Working Men's Association about bosses' tactics with regard to journeymen tailors in 1866.
State of the Unions: Recent US Labour Struggles in Perspective
In the USA, the recent resurgence of workplace struggles and their mediation through unions indicate a possible future for the UK and Europe: will social democracy be reborn from its ashes, perhaps in a more radical form, through the initiative of rank-and-file militants?
Class Struggle in a German Town
Thekla No. 11 - August 1989
Class Struggle in a German Town
Temp workers on the construction site of the nuclear power plant Philippsburg
Background to a simulated strike
"After 11 days of strike, our members thought they could get everything they wanted"
- Monika Wulf-Mathies, president of ÖTV, the Union of Public Services, Transport and Traffic Employees
It seems that the German working class has got over the shock of reunification. The common enemy is revealed, people are learning from each over. There have been the first joint East and West strikes. The wide spread sympathy for the ÖTV strike shows that the working class realises, that it is no longer a question of blue collar workers against white collar workers«, typists hate their work every bit as much as the assembly line workers, and the dustmen have seen bank workers on strike. At the same time, young people are moving again...
From Wildcat No. 59 - June 1992
The Brighton Bin Men's Strike 2001
Wildcat-Zirkular No. 59 - July 2001 - pp. (german edition)
The Brighton's Bin Men Strike in June 2001
Refusing Collection
Immigrant Workers' Struggle - Strike At Supplier Sweatshop March 2001
Immigrant Workers' Struggle - Strike At Supplier Sweatshop March 2001
The Struggle of the Vemiko Workers at Satzvey near Euskirchen, Germany, in January/February 2001
Fuel Blockades
Part of a discussion about the UK fuel blockades over oil prices in 2000.
Wildcat-Zirkular No. 58 - December 2000 - pp. (german edition) 34-37
Fuel Blockades
(This was a letter to a discussion about the petrol prices movement in the UK. Gill and Dave referred to by Rachel had denounced the movement as 'petit bourgeois'.)
