Credit crunched – working in financial services during the 2008-2009 crash This article comes from a comrade who is a member of the Solidarity Federation in the UK. He…
Stories from the CUPW Lock Out: or how to create a story that can reshape who we are and how we act This story by our friend Bruce is reprinted from Linchpin, the publication of our…
Class War on the Work Floor – Audio Recording We’re pleased to repost this from our comrades at Common Cause.
Reasonable accommodation Our friend and comrade Invisible Man has contributed stories before about life on the job. In this piece he provides an analysis of race and…
Holding the line: informal pace setting in the workplace Juan Conatz recalls an experience working in a warehouse which was trying to increase productivity…
On Contracts An article by Phinneas Gage dealing with collective bargaining agreements between a small shop and the Canadian postal workers union.
The shoe nazi This is a story about race, class, and poverty, from a friend who writes a blog anonymously as Invisible Man.
Caring: a labor of stolen time Our friend Jennifer Ng wrote this about her job and her organizing at a nursing home. It deals with a lot of issues about the commodification of…
Swept under the rug and left for dead; How, according to the boss, swearing is worse than harassment An account of an incident of sexual harassment in the workplace, the inadequate…
A New Workerism: Capitalist Crisis, Proletarianization, and the Future of the Left Originally written for and circulated at the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit, Alex advocates an…
“What do you do for a living?” A tale of toil by Frank Edgewick, a guest services agent in an American hotel.
Waves of Struggle, The Winter Campaign at the Post Office in Edmonton In the summer of 2011 Canadian government legislation ordered Canadian postal workers back to work…
