workplace organizing

Top labor organizing strategist, author and scholar Jane McAlevey weighs in on the failed effort by Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama.

Tech worker organizers from Google, Facebook, WeWork and Kickstarter produced a beautiful zine counterposing the most common anti-union talking points with counter quotes of advice, wisdom and inspiration.

Researchers studied the Israeli tech industry, which has the highest density of unionized workers in the world, to understand why organizing has taken hold there. Their findings show that workers are blurring the lines between traditional workplace issues like better pay and more creative issues like control over what kind of projects the company takes on.

Kickstarter organizer Clarissa Redwine discusses the unique structure of Google's union which is "what’s known as a non-contract union, an open union, a minority union, or a solidarity union."

Carmen Molinari critiques common yet largely ineffective strategies in worker organizing at big tech in the IWW-related blog Organizing Work.