The Future of the IWW: Building One Big Union w/ Nick Driedger & Marianne Garneau

Laborwave Radio

The IWW is 115 years old! In celebration we invited Marianne Garneau & Nick Driedger from Organizing Work to discuss the nuts and bolts of organizing within the IWW and our future as a union. What accounts for the recent upsurge in IWW organizing campaigns? How do we make more universal for all Wobblies our educational documents and training programs? What, if any, strategic industries should we focus on and should we target smaller workplaces or larger ones to build power? Finally, how much should we branch off from organizing in the workplace to forms of organizing outside of it? We discuss all of the above questions, as well as the challenges we face in building one big union, including the dominant presence of business unions and increasing precarity of workers in North America. Transcript forthcoming! Links: Laborwave Radio patreon patreon.com/laborwave Organizing Work https://organizing.work Join the IWW! (but you have to promise to organize your coworkers!) https://iww.org The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor by Steve Early https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/350-the-civil-wars-in-u-s-labor Music: Thee Oh Sees- Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster (intro) The Traditional Fools- Get Off Of My Back (outro)