So, you want to join the IWW? Well, it might not be as hard as you think fellow worker. Just read the info below:
The IWW is a democratic, member-run union. Decisions about what issues to address and what tactics to pursue are made by the workers directly involved - not by any officials. We have only one (Modestly) paid officer the General Secretary Treasurer of the union's international. The Australian Regional Orgainising Committee (R.O.C.) office bearers are all volunteers. Policy decisions are made by referendum by the entire membership. Any officer can be recalled at any time by referendum. Dues are kept to a minimum so there are no barriers to membership , a low income or unemployed worker can join for as little as $8.
Dues
When you join the union you pay an initiation fee. This is the same as one month's dues and covers basic costs of joining (card, bookwork et cetera). Our dues are calculated according to your income. If your monthly income is:
 | Less than $1500 (AU), dues are $4 per month;
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 | Between $1500 - $2000 (AU), dues are $10 per month;
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 | Greater than $2000 (AU), dues are $15 per month.
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Payment methods
Make a date to see your delegate and keep in touch we are a union about people and only through constant communication can we build solidarity and trust.
You can pay by money order or cheque through the post. Make it out to "IWW". Please no cash! We might not get it.
For those of you wishing to pay by direct debit we will email you the details with your membership approval.
Complete this form to Join us
or if you wish more info you can contact us via
Secretary: Margaret • Email: Viola Wilkins
Mail : IWW- Australia PO Box 145, Moreland VIC 3058
IF YOU'RE NOT IN AUSTRALIA, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO JOIN THE I.W.W. International
http://www.iww.org/en/join
1. The job is the only place where you can win your demands.
2. Organisation does not just happen; it is made to happen. Do your part.
3. The person working next to you should be in the union. Have you asked them about it?
4. The IWW is practical. Let people know about it.
5. Union literature in your pocket is lying idle. Take it out and put it to work.
6. If every Wobbly gets a new Wobbly every month, we would have the 4-hour day in a year!
7. The place to discuss internal matters in at the next meeting.
8. If meetings aren't being held in your locality, you can arrange them.
9 Pay your dues today; tomorrow you may be broke.
10. The activity of the rank and file, not "leaders", will advance the cause of labour.
11. Don't send for a delegate when you can do the job yourself!
12. If you are afraid, you are trapped; the IWW and industrial unionism will guarantee your protection.
13. Even if you can't organise your workplace now, you can still encourage people to act collectively and start the ball rolling.
14. Your dues barely cover costs like printing, stickers, postage and photocopying. Buy an extra assessment stamps when you pay your dues and help your union flourish.
15. The strength of the workers lies in solidarity - if each individual stands together, we will all win together.
Preamble to the IWW Constitution
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.
These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.
Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."
It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.
IWW - I WILL WIN
