So I'm working on a video about workplace organizing for my youtube channel and I want a list of resources to recommend to whoever watches.
Comment with your resource recommendations.
Here's what I have so far:
• Look up your local IWW branch and see if they’re doing Organizer 101 training workshop https://www.iww.org/branches
• “Weakening the Dam” a workplace organizing guide by the IWW https://www.iww.org/history/library/branches/TwinCitiesGMB/weakining_the...
• Libcom.org’s Workplace Organising guide http://libcom.org/organise/workplace
• How To Unionize Your Workplace (video by Another Slice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvrldZlUwe0
• Wages So Low You’ll Freak (book by Mike Puddn’head) https://libcom.org/library/wages-so-low-youll-freak-mike-puddnhead
• Organizing Work website https://organizing.work
• Fighting For Ourselves (book by Solidarity Federation) https://libcom.org/library/fighting-ourselves-anarcho-syndicalism-class-...
• Rusty’s Rules of Order https://www.vancouveriww.org/rustys-rules-of-order/
What's your opinion on whether I should add these resources to the list....?
• "A Troublemaker’s Handbook 2" by Labor Notes (?)
(I read it long ago and remember it had lots of really useful advice, but I also remember there being criticisms I just can't remember what they are.)
• Jane McAlevey, long-time union organizer, her book “No Shortcuts” and/or the videos on her website (?)
(I haven't read her book or had time to watch her videos, yet, but I've heard good things about her. I've also heard criticisms.)
More Questions
• Other resource recommendations?
• I remember hearing that Solidarity Federation does its own Organizer Training workshop, similar (but unique) to the one by the IWW. Is this still the case? (Or was it some other UK group that did this workshop and I'm mixing them up? Is there any group besides the IWW that offers workplace organizer training?)
I have to admit I've not read either the Labor Notes or the McAlevey, but maybe add them with a disclaimer?
It's more of a "how to organise strikes once you already have a unionised workplace" guide than a "how to organise" one, but the UCU Branch Solidarity Network put together a good page of strike resources at: https://ucubranchsolidaritynetwork.wordpress.com/updated-2020-strike-res...
Along similar lines to Organizing Work, there's Notes From Below and New Syndicalist: https://notesfrombelow.org/ and https://newsyndicalist.org/ although they both have their problems (Notes From Below is more "autonomists for Labour", New Syndicalist is more "anarcho-syndicalists for Labour")
https://workplaceorganising.uk/ looked promising but it's not been updated for years... oh, perhaps the Angry Workers site at https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/, or some of their specific pieces? Reviving the Strike by Joe Burns? The archives of the Workers' Power column and Recomposition? I guess it might be worth breaking it down into a shorter list of essentials for beginners and then some extra more advanced ones?