workplace groups

Precarious and pissed off: Lessons from the Montpelier Downtown Workers' Union, 2003-2005

Steven. — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:26:58 +0000

By Sean West

Beginnings and Endings

Anarchy, precarity, and the revenge of the IWW: An interview with Starbucks union organiser Daniel Gross

jrivera — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:32:50 +0000

In this wide-ranging interview with IWW organizer Daniel Gross conducted by the UK-based Now or Never!, Gross discusses the innovative worker-controlled organizing model, known as solidarity unionism, that has made gains for Starbucks workers where the bureaucratic union model has failed.

Super Size My Pay - Fast food workers in New Zealand organise for better pay and conditions, 2005-6

Steven. — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:21:37 +0000

This text is taken from the December 2006 issue of the Industrial Workers of the World Australia's newsletter, Direct Action.

Libcom interview with former UPS workers group Uprise! member, 2007

Steven. — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:19:05 +0000

An interview with a former member of revolutionary UPS workers group Uprise! by libcom, based on a libcom questionnaire. Uprise! was active in 2002 and 2003.

Organizing for class struggle at UPS - Uprise!

Steven. — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:09:04 +0000

December 2002

Notes on an ongoing workplace struggle - Sphinx

fort-da game — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:48:20 +0000

An article by Sphinx addressing workplace activity and the potential for organising disparate individuals in a Japanese workplace. The article is distinguished by its acceptance of, and engagement with, real world conditions, and yet is able to maintain a light and transcendent tone. It is also articulates the necessity for workers to establish their own goals.

Brief history of the Communication Workers Group, 1987-1989

Devrim — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:54:50 +0000

The article, written by one of its members, outlines the group's birth, growth and decline two years later.

The couriers are revolting! The Despatch Industry Workers Union, 1989-1992

Steven. — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:35:51 +0000

Written by Des Patchrider, this pamphlet was printed and is available for sale from the Kate Sharpley Library. Our thanks go to the KSL and the author for permission to host this text online.

Lessons of MWR - Interview with former McDonalds Workers Resistance member, 2006

Steven. — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:32:18 +0000

So, who are you?
The proletarian formerly known as Funnywump.

Briefly, what was McDonald’s Workers Resistance?

MWR speech about web activism at the European Social Forum, 2002

libcom — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:02:49 +0000

As we have heard, in the beginning, some time in 1997, the roots of what we now know and love (or hate as the case may be) as MWR started as an attempt to unionise a McDonald's store, bringing forth comments from managers such as- "do you want to keep your job? You could go far".