Fighting for #Justice4JohnPearson
Submitted by Phil on May 13 2015 21:01
Next week, the PCS union holds its annual delegate conference in Brighton. One of the most important issues on the agenda is that of whether the union will support its reps when they face victimisation. Unfortunately, the answer to that question remains uncertain.
Human guinea pigs "band together" and win a pay hike
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 16 2015 07:55
Two accounts by human lab rats who undertook successful strike action for better pay.
The Civil Service Rank & File – a belated post-mortem
Submitted by Phil on Mar 17 2015 14:53
An analysis of the Civil Service Rank & File Network, which emerged in late 2012, and its impact during its brief existence.
Snake March - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 30 2015 03:52
Concluding Phinneas Gage’s three-part series on struggles at the Canada Post during 2011, we present ‘Snake march’. In this final installment, he describes the moral as the lockout drags on. Parliamentary filibusters and symbolic occupations fail to turn the tide on contract negotiations. The postal workers return to work, determined to not let management bulldoze them in the shopfloor.
Buffalo Jump - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 30 2015 03:39
The second in a three part series about a strike at Canada Post. Phinneas Gage describes how the strike rolled on as the workers faced a common challenge of workplace battles. The government, employers, and national union began making moves to diffuse the situation and try to control the actions of the workers.
Turning up the Heat - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 30 2015 03:21
The first of a three part series that detail a set of organizing actions by postal workers in Canada during 2011. It is written by fellow Recomposition editor Phinneas Gage who expounds on the actions that led up to the CUPW strike, the predicaments that workers faced challenging management, and the indelible memory of seeing management flee an angry mob of strikers.
Ready to fight: Developing a 21st century community syndicalism
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Jan 29 2015 18:06
As we develop new strategies to work on community organizing campaigns, what ideas and strategies can we port over from the history of syndicalist workplace struggles?
Government union busting and the PCS response
Submitted by Phil on Jan 22 2015 23:06
The PCS union is facing concerted union busting activity from the government. However, despite its rhetoric it has fallen into a retreat that helps nobody
On Bluffing - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Dec 4 2014 02:58
An article by Phinneas Gage, in which he analyzes three instances in different organizing scenarios where bluffing, whether premeditated or spontaneous, helped leverage reactions that would not have otherwise happened.
Preventable mistakes - Juan Conatz
An account by Juan Conatz of a failed attempt to respond to a firing at work.
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