The Pop Up Union: a postmortem When management at the University of Sussex announced plans to outsource 235 jobs, workers responded by launching a 'Pop-Up Union', a new tactic…
"Leave it to the professionals": on paid union organisers A response to a blog criticising the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union for not making…
The Decline of the I. W. W. Despite its gloomy title, The Decline of the IWW is a lively account of the period 1917–1931 and a worthy successor to Paul Brissenden’s seminal…
Working for a hypocritical business union An account from a paid staffer of working for the AFL-CIO and dealing with petty management.
Solidarity: a union which betrays its name Next week Solidarity will organize its anniversary festival in Gdansk. It will be punctuated by such events as a huge mass in a grand cathedral…
The same, only in a different way - Gabriel Miasnikov In this essay written in 1920, the Bolshevik left communist Gabriel Miasnikov examines the…
The binds that tie: unions, ‘solidarity’, civil society and foreign policy in Bangladesh A look at the new unions emerging as part of the reforms of the garment industry –…
When the union's the enemy: an interview with Cleo Silvers Cleo Silvers, a former organizer with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, discusses racism in…
Punching out and other writings - Martin Glaberman, edited by Staughton Lynd A great collection of the writings of former-auto worker Martin Glaberman, edited and introduced by…
Trade unions under occupation - 'Adel Samara Book review by 'Adel Samara of Workers in Struggle: Palestinian Trade Unions in the occupied West Bank by Simon Taggart.
I punched my boss in the face - TEFL lesson A lesson plan based on this article, which appeared in Vice Magazine in January of 2013.
33 country fast food strike - TEFL lesson A lesson plan around the "Fight for 15 campaign" and a recent international one-day strike in support of US fast food workers fighting for better…
