Articles / WebWork
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Learning Reconciliation
“This WebWork could be (should be?) retitled: settler with labour magazine column goes looking to fill the gaps in his knowledge and finds those gaps are bigger in size and greater in number than he thought,” writes columnist Derek Blackadder in this piece from the Fall 2022 issue, dedicated to Truth and Reconciliation. Keep reading…
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Action in the Era of Convenient Solidarity
WebWork writer Derek Blackadder follows up on his Spring 2022 column with part two, from our Summer issue. In it, he tackles this question from a reader: Are online actions too convenient? Keep reading…
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String Theory & Starbucks Strategy
Eric Lee of LabourStart fame has recently developed what he calls the Starbucks Theory of Online Action Appeals Frequency. Try it! Keep reading…
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Quick Solidarity and Deep Organizing
For reasons rooted too deeply in my subconscious for me to figure out on my own, I check the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ (ACTU) website at least three times a week. Keep reading…
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Zooming in Post-Pandemic Times
Adapting to a New Normal
If the shift to Zoom and Jitsi and Skype for meetings means that people, mostly women, with pressing responsibilities in their homes or at other jobs, are suddenly finding it easier, even just plain easy, to participate in their union, why would we not think seriously about making this a standard rather than a COVID-related exception? Keep reading…
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Labour in a time of loneliness
(Just some) COVID-19 crisis responses from unions
Here are just some of the COVID-19 crisis responses from unions, responses that might just stay with us in some way, shape or form, after this pandemic is over. Keep reading…
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Hack the Boss and Other Good News
Some good news from New Zealand: soon some workers will be bossless. The wiggy news is that they will be taking direction, instead, from a chunk of software, presenting all kinds of interesting options for future workplace resistance. Keep reading…
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Where is Social Media Going?
Facebook is giving serious consideration to brazenly asking us to pay to ensure that it doesn’t sell our data to third parties. Like, compensation for its loss of the “right” to sell our shopping, eating, pooping and political preferences to someone or something like, oh, say Cambridge Analytica. Keep reading…
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Facebook Phooey & Organizing
Need a break from the trenches of online struggle but don’t want to stray too far from your digital home? Check out TUC’s (Trade Union Congress, UK) discussion paper called “Shaping Our Digital Future.” Keep reading…
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Donuts & a Digital Post-Mortem
For activists in Cobourg, Ontario, organizing in solidarity with Tim Hortons workers began when a photo of a letter handed out by management to the workers, which threatened rollbacks to benefits and paid breaks, was posted on Facebook. The campaign to support the workers was on. Keep reading…
