Category: Labour
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Lean Production Is Not a Solution
Matt Vidal’s framing of lean production as a neutral technology that provides openings for worker empowerment and participation is mistaken. It is a production system that bolsters the cost-reduction capacities … Keep reading »
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Spontaneity Isn’t Enough for Real Change
The seemingly spontaneous upsurges at companies like Starbucks and Amazon are an inspiring sign of life within the workers’ movement. But spontaneity is nowhere near enough to turn labor’s dismal … Watch video »
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It’s Time for Salting to Make a Comeback: The New Terrain for Union Organizing
At Starbucks, Amazon, UPS, and many other workplaces, there are enormous opportunities for radicals to organize on shop floors. If you want to rebuild the labor movement, get a job and start organizing with your coworkers. Keep reading »
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The Growing Turmoil in Ontario Labour Relations: Can Ontario Unions Turn Things Around?
Only halfway through 2022 and we already are soon going to set a new high for strike days lost for at least the last 13 years in Ontario, with over … Keep reading »
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Registering the ‘Labour Upsurge’ in North America
After a long four-year hiatus, the Labor Notes Conference is back, and bigger than ever with a record-breaking 4,000 registering. With Amazon and Starbucks workers providing the lead at this … Keep reading »
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How the Left Builds Power All Wrong
Jane McAlevey has organized thousands of workers on the front lines of North America’s labor movement. She is also a senior policy fellow at UC Berkeley’s Labor Center and the … Keep reading »
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The First Principle of Union Organizing: Spontaneity Isn’t Enough
If today’s unionization rate in the US was the same as it was forty years ago (already a low bar, as that number is significantly down from the mid-1950s peak), … Keep reading »
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Labor’s Upsurge: How Unions Can Make the Most of This Moment
From Amazon and Starbucks to Google and Apple, we’re in the midst of a wave of union organizing that is challenging longstanding assumptions and redefining the boundaries of what’s possible. … Watch video »
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A Union Brews at Starbucks
Starbucks workers across the country have been self-organizing an expansive and exciting new organizing campaign that has caught the national imagination. Hear from workers who’ve organized their own stores, gone … Watch video »
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Strike! Reviving Labor’s Most Powerful Weapon
At the heart of workers’ power is the ability to shut down business as usual by using the best-known tool in the labor movement’s toolbox: the strike. Hear from workers … Watch video »
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Trade Union Activists Arrested in Iran: Teachers and Bus Workers Singled Out
Since May Day 2022, a number of trade union activists, especially related to the teachers’ unions and the bus workers’ union, have been arrested in Iran, and are being interrogated … Keep reading »
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Precarity and Green Unionism
In a real sense, under capitalism, all workers are precarious, meaning that they can be downsized, replaced, deskilled, outsourced, and so on. It’s simply a matter of degree. The latest … Keep reading »