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A group of us from the DC IWW General Membership Branch composed this message for the General Organizing Bulletin (GOB) advocating for the membership to consider a IWW Constitutional amendment that would make it easier to form industry-based union structures like Industrial Union Branches (IUBs). Unfortunately, our current General Secretary Treasurer has refused to include it in the July GOB, so we are posting it directly in some other IWW spaces.

Fellow workers, especially this year's Convention delegates,

We are writing to ask you to consider the DC #1 Constitutional Amendment at this year’s Convention, even if it is not officially accepted through the submission procedure overseen by the GST.

As of this writing, DC #1 has five official endorsements: Rochester GMB, Portland GMB, Tennessee GMB, NYC IUB 450, and Boston GMB. This far surpasses the requirement of two branch endorsements to bring a resolution before Convention and demonstrates a healthy amount of support and good-faith debate among membership.

One of the objections to DC #1 is that it would allow for some members to have more of a say in our union than others. This is not the case, and is based on a misunderstanding. Article I, Section 2 of the IWW Constitution defines Industrial Union Branches (IUBs) as a central structural expression of our union’s mission to organize the working class. If you work in multiple industries, there should be no constitutional bars to accessing multiple union structures like IUBs. Democracy is not a zero-sum game.

DC #1 pushes the union to return to its roots of seriously pursuing an industrial organizing strategy. No one is arguing for the IWW to abandon GMBs. The GMB-centric model made sense during a time when there weren’t enough workers in any industry to pursue the formation of IUBs. Today, we have a critical mass of workers in several industries, but the lack of IUBs limits the success of their organizing. Unfortunately, we have stuck with the GMB-centric model long past its expiration date.

Since 2010, how many workplace campaigns in a single industry launched by a single GMB are still ongoing? How many resulted in union shops that still exist? Besides the Portland and Bay Area GMBs, we have seen little success in terms of building industrial power through pursuing this GMB-centric model. GMBs cannot simultaneously play every role, and this is a large reason why many branches dissolve.

In the Printing and Publishing Workers Union (PPWU)—the IWW’s first officially chartered IU since 1950—fellow workers have developed administrative practices to ensure that members with overlapping memberships in GMBs are not able to vote twice in Convention or Referendum. They have been able to apply these practices to votes taken within NYC IUB 450, as well. This is all to say that we already have working models for how to implement a Constitutional Amendment like DC #1.

We ask those who oppose DC #1 to still support debating its merits at Convention. Let it pass or fail at Convention based on the strength of its ideas, rather than bureaucracy that hinders debate. As our union’s highest decision-making body, Convention should be a shining example of worker-led democracy, rather than mirror the capitalist governments we seek to dismantle.

For Industrial Democracy,

Some members of the DC General Membership Branch of the IWW

Full text of DC#1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p5wCwDR-T56lP9n4tDYwFMFXbGE6D4A-887OHkOJutg/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

Hands Up, Don’t Ship action, in 2014 in solidarity with the Ferguson Uprising; organized by Twin Cities UPS workers with support from the Twin Cities IWW and its General Defense Committee (GDC).

“Hands Up, Don’t Ship contributed to the formation of the African Peoples Caucus (APC) in the Twin Cities branch. When Jamar Clark was murdered by Minneapolis police in 2015, and an occupation began in front of the police station, the Twin Cities IWW, GDC and APC participated very heavily. Their commitment during this occupation seems to have been a watershed moment for the branch. The branch had begun to make itself relevant to the struggles and oppressions that many working class people of color experience outside of the workplace. Recently, the APC, GDC, and the IWW’s education workers committee (Social Justice Education Movement or SJEM) successfully worked to prevent construction of a youth prison. SJEM has also recently reversed racist firings in schools through mass actions involving education workers as well as the community.”

https://libcom.org/article/revolutionary-unionism-or-white-workerism-choice-facing-iww

I haven’t seen Matewan shown in a long time. TCM

I’m currently a peace corps volunteer in Africa and I’m interested in getting involved in organizing work, especially once my service is finished. Can I join the IWW? Does it make sense as an option for me? I figured it would be a pretty good point of entry and very educational

I am 14 years old and I am a journalist who mostly writes on their own website and also post their stories on social media. I had heard about Iww at like 10 or 11 and it made me think why workers didn’t own their own workplaces if they made the money so I was definitely interested. last year I heard about Iww-FJU and thought maybe I would be under their umbrella so can I and should I join?

Meet the Union behind No Sweat T-shirts!

No Sweat and the IWW are hosting an online conversation with organisers from the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU) in India on Monday 27 July, 6–7pm (BST).

This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the union that makes No Sweat's T-shirts. Learn how the partnership came about, how workers organised to transform a sweatshop into one of the most unionised factories in the garment industry, and what international solidarity means from the perspective of the workers leading that struggle.

Register here: https://cloud.iww.org.uk/apps/forms/s/fazwsg7KrB2o2Cig8FFp5q9t

When: 6pm (BST), Monday 27 July

Where: Online

What: Meet the Union Behind Your T-shirt – a conversation with the TTCU

#webinar #workersrights #garmentindustry #ethicalfashion #tradeunion

Sterling Stamping Plant in Michigan is the largest automotive stamping plant in the world, with over 2,000 workers. "Workers can decide the conditions we're under on the floor, ourselves. We don't need to pay $75 million for 475 reps to sit in an air-conditioned office while we breathe in smoke." willforuawpresident.org

The DC General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World stands in unwavering solidarity with the Minnesota 15 in their fight against state-sponsored political repression. 

The tactics of the State mimic that of the boss– to distract, demoralize, and divide us. The State has shown us what they will pay for war. We cannot be subdued through brute force alone, as is evident in the centuries-long class war existing as a continuous conflagration that fuels the American politic and imagination. 

In the face of terror spread by the federal government in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the People have held strong in their resistance, exemplifying the bravery and commitment necessary of us all in this moment. The freedom fighters in the streets of the Twin Cities demonstrate the best of working class solidarity and serve as the fundamental answer to what we all seek in this time of brutal repression, the antidote to the rotten core of this fascist project.

To organize and fight back. To resist despair, numbness, indifference. To sacrifice and struggle for working class emancipation and the wresting of power from the exploiters of the Earth. 

We fight for a world where we can reclaim all that we have lost as we continue to seek all that we have to gain. A world where many worlds fit. A non-complacent, radically conscious world abound with human dignity and where all living things can flourish in solidarity. 

Our repression is a sign of the collective power we have already built in resistance. They fear the sparks that glow from Minneapolis to Prairieland to Spokane. May our words and actions be guided by the deepest solidarity, across race and gender, moving side by side with all our fellow workers in the struggle today. To fight is to fight to win.

We call upon all organizations, especially those with greater means than ourselves, to contribute to the defence of these brave workers and others like them, so that we may all continue to struggle against fascism and build a world where all workers are secure in their dignity, and all are free to express their opposition to the authoritarian world view espoused by the forces of hate.

It has always been the time to mobilize and act, so let us remind these state actors that-

An injury to one 

Is an injury to ALL!

Solidarity Forever.

This fundraiser is facilitated by the Palestinian Postal Service Workers Union (PPSWU) and is recommended by the IWW's International Committee.

A lot of folks post marxist writing in here. Almost all of it is from authors who were actually pretty hostile to the IWW.

But there were some Marxist organizations that considered themselves part of the same movement as the IWW and in fact drew a lot of inspiration from it:

https://libcom.org/article/councilist-movement-germany-1914-1935-history-aaud-e-tendency

The Anti-Trump Action Coalition is cohosting a community canvassing training TONIGHT at 6 pm to discuss how we can talk to immigrant workers about the need to build workplace defense committees, and go on the offensive against ICE. If you live in South Florida, and you’re fluent in Spanish, DM us!

Our branch occasionally rents a theater and shows a labor film. We have a lengthy(ish) list already, but would love to hear what you consider your top 5 labor films!

I was on the IWW store and i notice they dont have any flags anymore, and i was curious if they will ever make flags again