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
Submitted by Angry Language ... on May 28 2014 09:15
A lesson plan based on this article, which appeared in Vice Magazine in January of 2013.
33 country fast food strike - TEFL lesson
Submitted by Angry Language ... on May 27 2014 15:14
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 wages.
10 July: a ‘season of struggle’?
Submitted by Phil on May 13 2014 17:26
An initial response to the announcement from the People’s Assembly that there will be a ‘mass strike’ on 10 July this year.
Industrial unionism in America - Marion Dutton Savage
Submitted by Ross Arctor on Apr 24 2014 18:30
The main objects of this volume are to "describe the different industrial unions which are functioning today [in the 1920s]" and to "draw some general conclusions as to the direction in which the labor movement is likely to develop in the future." It necessarily gives considerable historical matter pertaining to the unions under review, but it does not attempt to relate their history in detail. It draws liberally on previous writers, such as Brissenden, Budish and Soule, and Schlueter, for some of the unions.
In Defence of Malatesta
A defence of Malatesta's record on the unions and his attitude towards workers' organisations
Nothing in common: unions as bosses
Submitted by Phil on Mar 31 2014 18:25
Some cursory thoughts on the contradictions created by trade unions, as the collective voice of organised workers, also being employers.
State intervention to save capitalism: the IWW and the state
Submitted by s.nappalos on Mar 26 2014 18:53
A discussion of the role of state intervention in the workers movement, an increasing approach of mobilizing movements to improve capitalism through state reform, and an appeal for the IWW to take an oppositional role to the state and such reform projects.
Learning valuable lessons about business unions
An exchange between Kdog and Brandon Oliver on the nature of the reformist unions.
What kind of workers deserve a union?
An article about the common framing of 'who unions are for'.
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