Tag: Organizing
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How Young Workers Are Unionizing Starbucks
Starbucks Workers United is racking up victorious union votes in one branch after another of the iconic American coffee chain. A young California-based worker-organizer explains why this organizing campaign is different. Keep reading »
Amazon Workers Form a Union
Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved something the company has been fighting for years to prevent: a union. The breakthrough at Amazon’s JFK8 facility is being hailed as the … Keep reading »
Resisting Amazon Capitalism
In mid-2021, Amazon’s new Africa headquarters in Cape Town drew scores of indigenous protesters over the construction of a $291-million (US) mixed-use corporate site. Over 50,000 people – including indigenous, … Keep reading »
Lessons for Organizing: Amazon and Beyond ft. Jonathan Rosenblum
Matt Davis and Tori Fleming interview Jonathan Rosenblum for a discussion about labour organizing strategies, Amazon, and the US National Labor Relations Board. Listen to audio »
Lessons for Organizing: From the Depression to Amazon and Beyond
Jonathan Rosenblum is a long-time union and community organizer in the US, particularly in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. In part 1 of this interview, Jonathan spoke at length about … Keep reading »
Union Organizing at Amazon
Has the Labor Board Provided a Way Forward or Another Detour? In 2020, Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store … Keep reading »
Starbucks Workers Victorious in Their Fight for a Union
It is hugely significant that even one café out of thousands in the iconic Starbucks coffee chain has beaten back the company’s union-busting tactics to choose collective power in the workplace. Keep reading »
The Organizing Challenge and American Capitalism
The state of the American labour movement has, since the mid-1970s, been dispiriting. There have, of course, been moments of creative and inspiring resistance, but the predominant story has been … Keep reading »
Google Workers Launch New Union
On January 4th, workers at Google and other Alphabet companies announced the creation of the Alphabet Workers Union with support from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) – the first … Keep reading »
Digital Organizing Isn’t as Straight Forward as it Seems
Over the past few years, digital organizing has become the hot new thing in unionization campaigns. Digital mobilization and engagement technologies have become essential to winning. However, while some unions … Keep reading »
Trade Unions Need New Strategies
With employers on a decades-long offensive against labour, the balance of power which once secured social dialogue has been transformed. Keep reading »
The Power of Deep Organizing
The profound defeat of the U.S. labour movement over the past three to four decades is usually measured by the loss of things that workers once took for granted like … Keep reading »