Tag: labor
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #4
This is the fourth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, and #4 with a metal worker. In this interview we speak to Alex, a public library worker in North Carolina. As the title suggests, this series…
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Report on Labor Notes 2024
This somewhat belated report captures Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee’s participation in the 2024 edition of the Labor Notes Conference. Prepared by the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Labor Committee. Background on Labor Notes The 2024 Labor Notes Conference was held from April 19th to 21st in Chicago, bringing together some 4,700 unionists from around the United…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #3
This is the third installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker and #2 with healthcare workers. In this interview we speak to Daniel Bovard-Katz, a metalworker in a midwestern U.S. state. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #2
This is the second in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. In this installment we bring you interviews with two nurses in the Southern United States. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to in…
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Anarchists in the Labor Movement #1
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to are building a militant minority within the rank-and-file of their existing union, others…
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A Letter From Black Rose Militants in California Public Universities to Our Colleagues
As members of grad student union UAW 4811 across the University of California begin voting in a unfair labor practice strike authorization in response to the encampment crackdown, members of BRRN who work in California universities drafted the following statement. We write to you as our California-based campuses join the ongoing encampment campaigns at American…
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Red & Black Party at Labor Notes 2024
Black Rose / Rosa Negra – Labor Committee On April 19th, over 4,000 labor unionists will converge on Chicago for what will be the largest-to-date Labor Notes conference. Member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra have regularly participated in past versions of the conference as attendees and panelists. In 2018 we organized a wildly successful independent event…
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Help 25+ Anarchist Labor Organizers Get to Labor Notes
⇨ DONATE HERE ⇦ Since Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) was founded 10 years ago, labor has remained a key focus of our sectoral organizing approach. For our members this has meant organizing the unorganized in campaigns to build entirely new unions, fighting within existing unions for greater rank-and-file control, and building the capacity…
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Deep Organizing Against Genocide: Palestine and Rooted Social Movements
In this article several members of Black Rose / Rosa Negra offer reflections on their efforts to bring the fight for Palestinian liberation into their long term organizing efforts. Throughout, an emphasis is made on the distinction between temporary mobilization and an orientation toward sustained organizing in sites of everyday life—our workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods.…
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Interview: UAW Rank-and-Filer as Historic Strike Begins
For weeks now, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has been ramping up its aggressive rhetoric around the possibility of a strike at the ‘Big 3’ automakers – GM, Ford, and Stellantis. The UAW represents some 150,000 workers across the three firms. Each company has raked in billions of dollars in profit in recent years.
