Attack on electricians' contracts wobbles as Balfour Beatty folds Sparks are celebrating a major breakthrough in their battle to stop a co-ordinated attempt by some…
Fighting and firings at Canada Post In this post, Phinneas Gage tells a story about action on the job, management retaliation, and workers’ responses.
To the would-be sex work abolitionist, or, 'ain't I a woman'? In the following article, Sarah M, a sex worker in Canada who would like to “exit” the industry,…
Tesco's secret workfare Furious shoppers are threatening to boycott Tesco after their use of forced labour schemes came to light yesterday.
16 years sentence for Eternit owners in asbestos trial The courtroom in Turin was crowded. People had to wait on their feet until the judge finished to…
Hospital workers across Edmonton walk out on wildcat strike Hundreds of support workers at the Royal Alexandra and University of Alberta hospitals in Canada…
War on the waterfront - Peter Cole Chapter 4 of "Wobblies on the waterfront-interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia" by Peter Cole, an excellent text about the…
The new social workhouse? Workfare, the labour market, prison Workfare isn’t just an austerity measure, it’s part of a longer term restructuring of the labour…
Cole, Clara Gilbert, 1868-1956 A short biography of Clara Gilbert Cole, anti-militarist and anarchist.
Rethinking Syndicalism A piece by Alex Erickson, briefly exploring some thoughts on workplace strategy and organization.
The Workplace Papers Short summary of the Sojourner Truth Organization, a group that came out of the so-called "new communist movement" and their views and experience…
A golden bridge: a new look at William Z. Foster, the Great Steel Strike, and the “boring-from-within” controversy A piece about William Z. Foster and the myth that had arisen around the "boring…