Posts by Boston Labor Solidarity Committee
There was some fluffy and fabulous energy on this picket line today! Workers at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge publicly launched their union campaign on March 26, 2026. They are demanding a fair process to organize – without harassment, intimidation, or retaliation. #ItsBetterInAUnion
Rasmus Hästbacka of the Swedish union SAC highlights six leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
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#IWW #labor #workers #union #wobblies #syndicalist
March 28, NO KINGS. We fight for workers | AFL-CIO
In the streets and on the shop floor, in union halls and at the ballot box, working people are rising up.
Join America’s unions and allies across the country next week at a #NoKings event near you as we fight to take back our power ✊ https://www.mobilize.us/?q=No%20Kings%20AFLCIO
Ready to take back your power from billionaires and corporations? To get the pay, benefits, dignity and respect you deserve?
Join the hundreds of thousands of workers who organized last year and all 15+ million members of America’s unions and unionize your workplace.
Resources for resisting ICE in your workplace
Whether or not you're in a union, you can build a strong defense against ICE in your workplace. Here's how.
How to prepare for a general strike
Recent protests against ICE in Minnesota have led to a renewed interest in general strikes, but they take a higher level of organizing to pull off.
Today Jean-Carl talks about how grievances are a “flashpoint” for direct action, citing the tactics of the Sakana IWW campaign of the late 20-teens.
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#iww #labor #restaurantworker #workers #unions #wobblies #nlrb
Hot off the press! The 2026 Winter issue of Industrial Worker is now available to print, read, and share!
Read it now:
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#IWW #UnionStrong #union #workers #labor #NLRB #contractualism #solidarity #organizing
32BJ Members at Harvard United for a Fair Contact
Rally for fair wages & strong benefits
February 19th • 12:00pm
124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
The labor movement isn’t just weak, it’s approaching an event horizon: the point at which unions become so small they lose the political, cultural, and institutional mass to successfully reverse their own decline. 🧵 jacobin.com/2026/02/unio...
J.R. reminds us of who we are in this week's piece!
"As the IWW grows and recruits workers beaten down...the idea will inevitably reappear that we can be a contract union “just like them,” but somehow radical about it...”
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#workers #iww #unions #wobblies #nlrb
DSA’s “Rank-and-File Strategy” has 60s Roots at UC Berkeley. - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/02/d...
Thousands gathered in the cold in #Boston for a “no business as usual” anti- #ICE demonstration organized by labor with various progressive groups during Friday’s #nationwidestrike
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Protest No war at home No war abroad Fight Trump's war on Venezuela and stop ICE terror across the US Sat January 10 @ 12 PM State House, 24 Beacon St. Part of an org? Sign on to cosponsor: bit.ly/Jan10BOS
🚨NO WAR ON VENEZUELA AND JUSTICE FOR RENEE GOOD
SATURDAY. 12 PM. STATE HOUSE. 🚨
🚨 COMING SOON!!🚨
Fenway Park concession workers just made history. They led the first strike in the park’s history and turned it into higher pay, clearer staffing standards, and protections for the future.
Huge congratulations to all the workers who made this possible.
SEDI presents Ben Fletcher and Dockworker Power (video)
The Sam and Esther Dolgoff Institute presents
Peter Cole on
Ben Fletcher and Dockworker Power
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Dealers at the Horseshoe Indianapolis Casino in Shelbyville have voted to join Teamsters Local 135! They'd mounted a recognition strike, a rare, courageous, throwback tactic that was mainly how unions were formed 90 years ago, our editor Al Bradbury reported labornotes.org/2025/11/indi...
Labor Notes Roundtable Series. A General Strike isn't just a pipe dream. These four Lessons from the recent past show how we can make it a reality.
"We’ve all heard calls for a general strike before—usually not as a serious proposal or strategy, but as a reaction to the attacks that working people face on a regular basis from existing political and economic power..." labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb... 1/7
This Day in Labor History: November 4, 1907. Theodore Roosevelt orders federal troops into Goldfield, Nevada to bust an IWW strike. Let's take on the myth that TR was good on labor issues. He would do anything to crush radical labor!
The International Confederation of Labor that the IWW is a member organization of has issued a statement on the ongoing genocide.
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#Gaza #GazaGenocide #palestine #labor #workers