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workers_unions_direct_action [2019/02/09 10:58] – puffinuxworkers_unions_direct_action [2019/02/09 15:04] – [List of Independent or Industrial Unions (please feel free to add to it as appropriate)] added WSA, changed formatting greenandblack
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-====== Union Organising & Direct Action in the workplace ======+====== Union Organising & Direct Action in the Workplace ======
  
 With the global countdown towards climate disaster imminently looming, it is essential to the success of the Solarpunk movement that we strive to build the infrastructure of our new society within the shell of the old. This in mind, we can look to the organisation of workers’ unions as both a means of dismantling capitalist societal structures, and a means of structuring a new society with economic democracy from the bottom up. With the global countdown towards climate disaster imminently looming, it is essential to the success of the Solarpunk movement that we strive to build the infrastructure of our new society within the shell of the old. This in mind, we can look to the organisation of workers’ unions as both a means of dismantling capitalist societal structures, and a means of structuring a new society with economic democracy from the bottom up.
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-===== Workers Unions =====+===== Worker's Unions =====
  
 The basic principle of the union is that an injury to any one member of the working class is an injury to all, and that the power of workers can become strong enough to challenge the ruling classes if there is **unity** and **organisation** among them. At the end of the day, the corporate elite depend upon the workers for their profit - as “Big Bill” Haywood said: //If the workers are organised, all they have to do is put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.//  The basic principle of the union is that an injury to any one member of the working class is an injury to all, and that the power of workers can become strong enough to challenge the ruling classes if there is **unity** and **organisation** among them. At the end of the day, the corporate elite depend upon the workers for their profit - as “Big Bill” Haywood said: //If the workers are organised, all they have to do is put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.// 
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-[[https://iww.org/|Industrial Workers of the World]] (UK Site [[https://iww.org.uk|**here**]]) +  * [[https://iww.org/|Industrial Workers of the World]] (UK Site [[https://iww.org.uk|**here**]]) 
-[[https://iwgb.org.uk/|Independent Workers of Great Britain]] +  * [[https://iwgb.org.uk/|Independent Workers of Great Britain]] 
-[[https://iww.org.uk/iww-couriers-network/|IWW Couriers Network]] (for deliveroo & uber eats riders) +  * [[https://iww.org.uk/iww-couriers-network/|IWW Couriers Network]] (for deliveroo & uber eats riders) 
-[[http://www.solfed.org.uk/|Solidarity Federation]] +  * [[http://www.solfed.org.uk/|Solidarity Federation]] 
-[[https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/|United Voices of the World]] +  * [[https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/|United Voices of the World]] 
-[[http://www.cnt.es/|Confederación Nacional del Trabajo]]+  * [[http://www.cnt.es/|Confederación Nacional del Trabajo]] 
 +  * [[https://workersolidarity.org/|Worker's Solidarity Alliance]]
  
 ===== Direct Action ===== ===== Direct Action =====
workers_unions_direct_action.txt · Last modified: 2019/03/24 14:34 by socalledunitedstates