dgorganize (he/him)
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Co-author Labor Law for the Rank & Filer and Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks (PM Press)
Next book coming is about creating unions of our own (Haymarket)
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- A city-wide stoppage is valid and powerful even though it's not a city-wide general strike. A stoppage can also be part of an evolution to a general strike.
- It's official: Unions of Our Own is coming ☺️ My highest aspiration is that readers will find it helpful for winning all that they need from their job — and for smashing injustice in society
- Minneapolis was around the 4th city that the IWW Starbucks Workers Union expanded to. It quickly became one of the union's strongholds, with incredibly committed baristas. The fighting spirit of the working class there - Anti-Racist Action and the 1934 strike come to mind - are rightfully legend.
- Reposted by dgorganize (he/him)Our strike begins today! Show your support for nurses fighting for safe staffing, healthcare benefits and a fair contract! #NYCNurseStrike #SafeStaffingSavesLives #PatientsOverProfits
- Reposted by dgorganize (he/him)The 10 IRA and INLA hunger strikers who died in 1981 survived for between 46 and 73 days. These Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK have been on strike for 45, 59, and 66 days.
- If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- For no particular reason whatsoever this is a key time to assess your union's vision and model: Are internationalism and anti-imperialism values we've embraced? How do we apply them?
- “We’re in the oil business” -Donald Trump “War is a racket” -General Smedley Butler
- Trump and Bannon campaigned on good industrial jobs and no foreign wars Fascism is always a scam on the working class
- I hope you were able to find some rest and restoration at year end To a new year full of union building, struggle of all kinds and victories
- I've been thinking about regular rotation among rank & filers to populate the ranks of union officials. Even unions that don't want union officials seem to get shoehorned into having them to file certain required paperwork. Anyone know about or thinking about "sortition" within labor unions?
- I’m sure others can and are saying this more extensively than I. But I did spend time with Latinx day laborers after Katrina. Their rights and dignity transcend the work they did and do. But wow, the destruction, the chemicals, the mold. These folks, along with the Black community, were first in…
- Needed a compelling, not long piece on the great anti-imperialist unionists, the martyred Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes - of the lineage of radical Filipino workers in fish canneries. Of course, the incomparable @kimkelly.bsky.social had done the work. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
- So great, immense solidarity. For a labor movement in harmony with the Earth — to borrow from the Wobblies.
- Labor strategy cannon: chokepoint ⚡❤️🔥
- Never gets old (sadly) Support class struggle prisoners. Successful, and moral, social movements don't leave their people behind.
- A very stirring review by a noted activist for independent unionism in Egypt. Eager to read No Neutrals There and planning to do it collectively. We need union visions and union models in accord with them that have anti-imperialism at the heart.
- What's some stand out writing about historic rank & file responses on the shop floor to automation? If possible, connecting to today and AI.
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- Hard agree
- I did a quick skim so take this with a grain of salt. But it's clear enough that California's sectoral bargaining law in ride share should concern workers and their allies who believe in rank & file theories of change and real union power.
- You should prep and then assess every 1:1 organizing meeting. Yes, it's significant work. But that's how you do them well, learn from each one, and put the insights into use for next steps. Very good 1:1s are key to forming an organizing committee. And an OC is a key cause of union victory.
- My dear friend has been struck with brain cancer :( Mahoma is without exaggeration one of the great rank & file organizers in the U.S. of the last decades. His organizing at the NY deli he worked at and a resulting documentary brought him to public attention. His work has only deepened since then.
- Disappearing workers from the narrative is a core capability of corporations. @karenhao.bsky.social has done exemplary work in empireofai.com including workers at the center of the AI story, especially folks in the Global South. Every working person has a giant stake in the AI fight.
- Immigrant food factory workers have been at the heart of the struggle for dignified wages and safety, and against ICE, for years. Stand with Brandworkers this month. givebutter.com/2025BWAwards...
- Mark Bray is a decent and gentle person. I've known him for probably two decades. He's brilliant and very knowledgeable about visionary strands of labor history. The label the right-wing is putting on him is false. It's terrible for Rutgers students that he won't be there and for free expression.
- Time and energy to think is the most valuable currency in building a union. If I had to choose between time to think and resources, I'd choose time to think. With time to think, you can get resources. With resources and without time to think, the funds are not getting you very far.
- Content warning: video of assassination and grave bodily harm Here's what happened to Efraín Fueres, an indigenous Ecuadorian worker, and an unnamed good samaritan when a military turned "within" on Sunday. youtu.be/8UQmp6a0akA
- Not an electoral person, but as a union organizer I try to understand the full constellation of relevant conditions. So when a couple of workers tell me they felt moved and even "emboldened" to connect on a union campaign because of Zohran Mamdani, I will indeed take note.
