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Book Review of Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard., by Ellen David Friedman. (PM Press, 2026.)
https://blog.pmpress.org/2026/03/19/ucore-school-struggle-and-strikes-in-the-us/

#directaction #frombelow #LabourMovement #Organize #rankandfile #Solidarity #Unions

When Workplace Organizing Gets Tough, Here’s How to Keep Going - PM Press

By Steve Early Beyond Chron March 16th, 2026 Review of Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard., by Ellen David Friedman. (PM Press, 2026.) Six years ago, Labor Notes ran a contribution to its popular “Steward’s Corner” column by Ellen David-Friedman, a long-time labor educator and former organizer for the National Education Association […]

PM Press

The Colorado Sound Playlist 4d ago

6:49am Amanda Ruth by Rank And File from The Slash Years
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #RankAndFile

Peter Riley 4d ago

https://portside.org/2026-03-16/why-labor-must-act-workers-unions-and-defense-democracy

#directaction #frombelow #LabourMovement #Organize #Rankandfile #Solidarity #unions

Why Labor Must Act: Workers, Unions, and the Defense of Democracy

When we look at the history of U-turns from democratic backsliding to democratic revival, the success rate is about fifty percent. That’s the finding that emerges from decades of research into how societies resist authoritarian consolidation—and it should unsettle us. Fifty percent is a coin toss. It means that roughly half the time democratic backsliding becomes permanent, and the institutions, rights, and freedoms people took for granted simply don’t come back.

Portside

The Colorado Sound Playlist Mar 13

6:34am Sundown by Rank And File from The Slash Years
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #RankAndFile

Peter Riley Mar 6

@angryeducationworkers

#rankandfile public school #teachers #educationworkers support staff and pre-service teachers in Victoria committed to building up the power of our #union the Australian Education Union (#AEU).

https://classstruggleeducation.substack.com/

Class Struggle | Substack

We’re a group of rank and file public school teachers, education support staff and pre-service teachers in Victoria committed to building up the power of our union, the Australian Education Union (AEU). Click to read Class Struggle on Substack. Launched a month ago.

Peter Riley Mar 6

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/nyc-nurses-strike-historic-victory

(Interview) Michelle Gonzalez, a longtime #rankandfile nurse and an elected leader of NYSNA’s executive committee at #Montefiore, about the strike. They discussed what the nurses won (and didn’t), the role of Gov. Hochul in the strike, and divisions and challenges within the union itself.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/nyc-nurses-strike-unions-health-care

#healthworkers #labourmovement #nurses #NYC #organize #solidarity #strike

The New York City Nurses’ Strike Was a Historic Victory

The largest and longest nurse strike in New York City history concluded last month. A rank-and-file nurse leader writes in Jacobin about how the 15,000 striking nurses beat giant hospitals to win major victories on safe-staffing and other issues.

Peter Riley Feb 26

Book Review: nBackroom Bargaining
Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City's Labor Unions
Jane LaTour
University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 978-0-252-08916-9

https://portside.org/2026-02-25/fighting-autocracy-and-corruption

#Autocracy #corruption #labourmovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions

Fighting Autocracy and Corruption

Backroom BargainingRacketeering and Rebellion in New York City's Labor UnionsJane LaTourUniversity of Illinois PressISBN: 978-0-252-08916-9 My first contact with labor reformers in New York City was nearly 50 years ago. Like many rank-and-file dissidents, before and since, these critics of union corruption were prophets without honor in their own local.

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Peter Riley Feb 21

There is new experimentation, organizing, leadership and energy that heralds real hope. For clues on labor’s future, we should look beyond the lagging indicator of the BLS union membership numbers to the front lines, in workplaces and in the streets.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/union-membership-labor-bureau-stastistics

#FromBelow #LabourMovement #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity

Five Things the New BLS Union Membership Statistics Don’t Tell You

Union membership is slightly on the rise—but the hope for U.S. labor’s future is far brighter than the numbers alone suggest.

In These Times

Peter Riley Feb 13

@angryeducationworkers

“ - student learning conditions are teacher working conditions.
- benefits at work are the product of educators and other workers of past generations demanding them, and striking for them.
- We are the only ones with the power to win transformational change for the public education system. “

https://substack.com/home/post/p-187181308

Vic Govt government oppose industrial action vote by public school staff

https://www.aeuvic.asn.au/premier-allan-and-her-government-oppose-industrial-action-vote-public-school-staff

#ClassStruggle #educationworkers #rankandfile #teachers

The fight ahead

What it's going to take to win

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Peter Riley Feb 8

Stopping Trump will require more than neighbourhood mobilisations and a courageous civil society. Many called the combination of street protests, blockades and walkouts on the 23rd of January a ‘21st century general strike’.(24)
But without extending the strikes to large businesses, transport and warehouse logistics, Trump's troops cannot be stopped ?

https://www.wildcat-www.de/en/current/e_a127_chinga.html

#directaction #frombelow #labourmovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions