We are delighted to announce that our latest issue of the Seattle Worker, January/February 2024, is now online! It includes: "Notes from the Field" by FW x383303 "Greenwashing Effects on Environmental Unionism" by FW Noah "Toxic Industrials in Our Neighborhoods" by FW Cedar "Solidarity on the Montgomery Riverfront" by FW Kristin "No Power Greater Under … Continue reading Seattle Worker March/April 2024 Now Online!
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Seattle Worker January/February 2024 Now Online
We are delighted to announce that our latest issue of the Seattle Worker, January/February 2024, is now online! Please join us in welcoming our new editor, Fellow Worker Noah. In this issue, we find out why organizing campaigns fail - and how to win instead. This issue also features a reportback on the Centralia Monument … Continue reading Seattle Worker January/February 2024 Now Online
Seattle Worker November-December 2023 Now Online
We are pleased to introduce the November-December issue of the Seattle Worker. In this issue, we remember past Wobblies, workers, ancestors, and Mother Earth. Read about Marie Equi, early Wobbly and doctor who fought for reproductive rights. Follow a memorial tour for Fellow Workers George Underwood, George Shoemaker, John McGuire, Samuel Chinn, and F.J. Ferry. … Continue reading Seattle Worker November-December 2023 Now Online
Salish Sea Update: Indian Lessons
by FW Gale The sentiment “If each Wobbly would make a new Wobbly once a week, we’d have the Cooperative Commonwealth of Labor in a few short years,” is attributed to IWW Bill Haywood. Bill was a revolutionary, and each Wobbly must understand his statement.A Wobbly is a Citizen of Industry, a worker who knows … Continue reading Salish Sea Update: Indian Lessons
On the Road: Remembering Fallen Workers, Part 1
By Dave Tucker, Bellingham, WA Many IWW members are buried in Washington State. Quite a few of these Wobblies were killed early in the 20th Century because they tried to gain improvements on the job or exert their right to free speech in public. Many were murdered by police and capitalist goons. Some are well … Continue reading On the Road: Remembering Fallen Workers, Part 1
An Interview with an Education Worker
FW Gale interviews education worker FW Quibs. What's your work background? Arts, retail, and swimming until 2018, when I switched to teaching in a school rather than in a pool. I left the pool and trained to become a Montessori teacher. How did you get into teaching? My family is full of teachers. Out of … Continue reading An Interview with an Education Worker
Interview with Longhouse for the People
Fellow Worker Sean interviews Naiome about the project Longhouse for the People. Tell us about your project, what you’re seeking to accomplish? My name is Naiome and my current project focus is the Longhouse for the People. We have purchased 11.5 acres in Quilcene, where we plan on building a traditional longhouse with traditional first … Continue reading Interview with Longhouse for the People
Salish Sea Report: Agitate and Organize
by FW Sean Capitalism's evils invade every aspect of our lives, controlling who we love and what we do so that our work problems and our home problems are the same problems. Struggling to pay rent, suffering abuse, going hungry, feeling lonely, being overworked and angry are logical outcomes when workers are being exploited for … Continue reading Salish Sea Report: Agitate and Organize
On Frosty Mornings
FW Kristin interviews FW Red about his years doing agricultural labor in the 1970s and 1980s. Excerpted and lightly edited. In 1974, there was a camp on the Spokane River below the falls. I went there, had a good time, built a hovel, lay in the sand, and I met some people. The only name … Continue reading On Frosty Mornings
The IWW’s Orchard Workers Organizing Project, 1984-1985
In the Orondo-Chelan Area, Columbia River Valley, Washington By Dave Tucker In early 1984, some Wobs from the Bellingham IWW Branch began an apple orchard organizing project in the Chelan area. We all had at least a couple, and sometimes many, years experience in harvest and other orchard jobs. In February of 1984 we started … Continue reading The IWW’s Orchard Workers Organizing Project, 1984-1985