An organizer and a worker describe a direct action campaign that reaped great victories and then collapsed for lack of a solid foundation. Anyone who has already taken the organizational training 101 You ITS-IWW (OT101) will be familiar with the organization pyramid shared below. If you have never seen it or need you […]
Tuesday the 25 October from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., the Organizing Committee of the SITT-IWW Montreal branch invites you to a workshop “How to make the social and physical map of your workplace”. The workshop will take place in the presence of the local, the 3340 Ontario Street. To register, please complete the form […]
Before taking action, we must identify the obstacles that stand in our way. A computer technician tells us his story.
An anonymous source describes the direct actions employed, during the public health crisis in Ontario, by long-term care home workers now that grievances are on hold. The 17 mars, Premier Doug Ford has declared a state of emergency in Ontario. For most people, […]
The employee activist's complaint: how to fight capitalism with capitalism For a few years, we are living through a crisis of activism. Many organizations struggle to recruit and engage new members. We only have to look at our own membership rate, that fluctuates with the seasons, and the difficulties encountered when […]
Postal workers in Canada staged rotating strikes in early winter 2018 when, following a special law of the Federal Government, they were forced to return to work. Since that time, the negotiations were subject to arbitration, which led to two extensions. Postal workers also had […]
We will be told that we exaggerate : what to ask for a minimum wage of 22$ time is unrealistic, utopian or that it just doesn't make sense. Some unions have recently demanded a minimum wage at 18$ /h. This proposition, based on IRIS studies, is not interesting. As one of my […]
Morgan M takes a look at the wave of strikes in Italy in light of the coronavirus pandemic and government and industry responses, interviewing an activist firefighter in a local grassroots union. Image: Workers at TNT FedEx facilities in Genoa and Bologna on strike 7 april […]
ur, who preferred to remain anonymous, worked as a field organizer for the largest public service union in the United States, before becoming a teacher in a large urban area. He is now organizing with colleagues and students around issues related to the accessibility of education and obtaining driving licenses for undocumented migrants..
Rasmus Hästbacka and Kristian Falk, of the Swedish trade union SAC (Swedish Workers' Central Organization, or Central Organization of Workers of Sweden), argue for a third way between the “consensual fundamentalism” of Sweden’s dominant union bureaucracy and the “idealization” of rank-and-file strikes: we have to relearn how to put pressure on our places […]