Tag: Labor Organizing
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #5 – Public Schools
This is the fifth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, #3 with a metal worker, and #4 with a public librarian. In this interview we speak with Shan, a public school teacher in North Carolina. As the title suggests, this series…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #4 – Public Libraries
This is the fourth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, and #4 with a metal worker. In this interview we speak to Alex, a public library worker in North Carolina. As the title suggests, this series…
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Report on Labor Notes 2024
This somewhat belated report captures Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee’s participation in the 2024 edition of the Labor Notes Conference. Prepared by the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee. Background on Labor Notes The 2024 Labor Notes Conference was held from April 19th to 21st in Chicago, bringing together some 4,700 unionists from around the United…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #3 – Metalworking
This is the third installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker and #2 with healthcare workers. In this interview we speak to Daniel Bovard-Katz, a metalworker in a midwestern U.S. state. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #2 – Healthcare
This is the second in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. In this installment we bring you interviews with two nurses in the Southern United States. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to in…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #1 – Higher Education
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to are building a militant minority within the rank-and-file of their existing union, others…
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Interview: UAW Rank-and-Filer as Historic Strike Begins
For weeks now, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has been ramping up its aggressive rhetoric around the possibility of a strike at the ‘Big 3’ automakers – GM, Ford, and Stellantis. The UAW represents some 150,000 workers across the three firms. Each company has raked in billions of dollars in profit in recent years.
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Interview: UPS Teamster on the Possibility of Huge 2023 Strike
The contract for some 340,000 UPS workers, organized by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), is set to expire at midnight on July 31st. In preparation for a possible walkout, Teamsters across the country began casting strike ballots earlier this week. A strike by UPS Teamsters would be the largest labor action at a single…
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Interview: Adjunct Faculty on Recent Rutgers University Strike
In April 2023, faculty and graduate student workers at Rutgers University staged an historic five day strike. The strike was mostly over wages and working conditions, and contributed to a recent wave of labor actions at institutions of higher education in the United States. While they did not win everything, the strike led to serious…
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No COLA? No Contract! The Stakes and a Strategy for Success in the Historic University of California Strike
by Members of both Black Rose Bay Area and UAW 2865 On November 14, over 48,000 teaching assistants, tutors, readers, associate instructors, other Academic Student Employees (ASEs), Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs), and postdoctoral employees across the University of California (UC) launched the largest coordinated strike the United States’s higher education sector has ever seen. On…