workplace activity

Workers' accounts and experiences of organising in their workplaces.

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

Sometimes We Don't Even Get to the Point of Winning or Losing...

Reading The American Worker and old Italian operaismo surveys of auto workers, it occurred to me…

Keep on truckin' - Mac Brockway (Tim Costello)

Mac Brockway (pseudonym for Tim Costello) analyses the machinations of unions in maintaining order in the workplace, with particular focus on a small dispute in the truck driving industry in New York.

Attack is the Only Way Forward. The struggle of the GGB (Healthworkers Syndicate) Hannover at the Wahrendorff Clinic

An account of workplace organising in a privately run hospital in Germany in 2007.

Schorndorf 1991: A Successful Temp Workers' Strike

The FAU was founded as a union for all wage-workers and therefore also for temporary workers. In March of 1991 a spontaneous and successful strike was launched by temp workers at the Bauknecht Company in the small swabian city of Schorndorf.

Taiwanese workers protest dismissals

Workers at Young Fast Optoelectronics (YFO) in Taiwan have urgently requested solidarity actions for their struggle to defend their union and…

You fire the worker, we fire the boss – organising at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield

A participant's account and critical reflections on an Industrial Workers of the World organising…

IWW organising in the 1970s

An interesting account of attempts of organising Industrial Workers of the World union shops in the US in the 1970s, which contains useful lessons on the tactic of organising small workplaces.

Small is not beautiful: Working at the San Francisco Bay Guardian

An account of work and industrial conflict at the alternative newspaper the San Francisco Bay…

Flax store, San Francisco, 2010

Flexing muscles at Flax: Anatomy of service sector organising

Maxine Holz and Lucius Cabins interview two workers at a small art supplies firm in San Francisco…

Lose jobs now: ask me how!

An account of casual work, sabotage and getting sacked in the service industry, by Zoe Noe.

The Making of a Bad Attitude: An Abridged History of my Wage Slavery

Tales of toil and occasional termination from offices and stores in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s by Lucius Cabins for Processed World.

A day in the life of employee #85292

A tale of toil by Hewlett-Packard manufacturing worker Jay Clemens in California, 1985.