Canvassing is not organizing Ray Valentine argues that the skills built in canvassing for an electoral candidate do not translate to organizing workplaces or tenants. This…
How can workers defy anti-strike legislation? An interview from Organizing Work looking at how Canadian postal workers have organized in defiance of anti-strike laws.
Making Asses of Ourselves Jean-Carl Elliott reflects on the electoral approach to worker power, using the Fight for $15 and One Fair Wage campaigns as examples. This…
No Shortcuts, but to where? Nick Driedger reviews Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. This article was first published by Organizing…
Some strikes are more general than others A critique of a recent article from the Organizing Work blog, "You Say You Want A General Strike", examining recent general strike calls in…
“This is overdue”: Interview with a striking General Motors worker As General Motors reaped $8.1 billion in profit and paid its CEO $22 million, nearly 50,000 GM…
You say you want a general strike Marianne Garneau critiques recent calls for general strikes. This article first appeared on Organizing Work.
When bosses play the victim Rachel Stafford takes on bosses who claim to be bullied by worker organizing. This article first appeared on Organizing Work.
Pushing: On the U in AEIOU MK Lees describes the psychological dimensions of organizing. This article first appeared on the Organizing Work blog.
Interview on the strike wave in Mexico Ray Valentine interviews Patrick Cuninghame, a History and Sociology lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City,…
Why don’t strikes achieve more? An article from the Organizing Work blog examining the limitations of high-profile disputes such as the Stop-n-Shop strike, published as part of…
How to socialize the workplace Roger Williams, an education worker, talks about building social relationships with coworkers, to lay the foundation for organizing. This article…