By Frank Tonsi Editor’s Note: The following article is a response to a Kotaku guest editorial that was written by Liz Shuler of the AFL-CIO. In the article, Shuler encouraged people working in the games industry to unionize. You can find Shuler's full article here and a Follow Up Q&A here. To Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer … Continue reading Response to the Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO
In the News: Labor News from around the Country
By James Smith The employees of Portland's Providence Medical Center have been arguing for quite some time that the hospital spends too much money on mergers, acquisitions, and executive compensation, and not nearly enough on patient care and employee compensation. It's a pretty easy argument to make once one discovers the CEO of the "non-profit" … Continue reading In the News: Labor News from around the Country
The Centralia Tragedy and the Lessons of the Past
By Lindsay Mimir On November 11, 1919, during the first celebration of Armistice Day following the conclusion of the First World War, a violent confrontation between the American Legion and the IWW occurred in the logging town of Centralia, Washington. The various accounts of the event—dubbed either the Centralia Massacre (by the Legion) or the … Continue reading The Centralia Tragedy and the Lessons of the Past
The Workers’, Soldiers’, and Sailors’ Council: Efforts to unite the working class in post-war Seattle
By Hannah Hopkins and Lexi Owens When people went away to the battlefields of World War I, people who couldn’t—or wouldn’t—fight, as well as those who stayed behind, like most women, Black men, immigrants, and other people of color, filled their vacancies in the workforce. For instance, in the Puget Sound, white and Black women … Continue reading The Workers’, Soldiers’, and Sailors’ Council: Efforts to unite the working class in post-war Seattle
In the News: notes from around the Northwest
By James Smith Despite making billions of dollars a year in revenue, the ambulance company AMR claimed they didn’t have the money to pay their EMTs in Seattle much above minimum wage. The EMTs, who are represented by Teamsters Local 763, were rightfully skeptical of the company’s claims and voted to strike. Because they would … Continue reading In the News: notes from around the Northwest
The Seattle Worker February 2019: Seattle General Strike Centennial Edition
Download the full issue of the February 2019 issue of the Seattle Worker. In honor of the Seattle General Strike of 1919, and in commemoration of the Centralia Tragedy that happened later that year, the Seattle Worker Committee is proud to present our General Strike Centennial Edition. Along with our regular "In the News" snippets from James … Continue reading The Seattle Worker February 2019: Seattle General Strike Centennial Edition
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“The Union will make you go on strike!”: Refuting Myths about Unions
By Lexi Owens Bosses love to tell half-truths and say that if workers join a union, the union will force them to go on strike. But our union is completely democratic. No decision can be made without the workers' consent. Workers will go on strike because they decide to go on strike. Applebee’s restaurants’ parent company … Continue reading “The Union will make you go on strike!”: Refuting Myths about Unions
History Corner: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Visits Seattle
By Hannah Hopkins Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is pictured here standing on a soapbox on the right side of the image above the two large umbrellas. She is addressing a crowd of people in Seattle in 1917 at a rally in defense of IWW prisoners who were imprisoned following the Everett Massacre. At this time, Flynn … Continue reading History Corner: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Visits Seattle
Seattle Industrial Workers of the World 