Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rankandfile, aggregated by home.social.
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we’re headed for national #rankandfile conference, for workers across industries to meet, share what they know, and build connections that last beyond a single dispute.
https://www.workershub.org.au/
#O4P has trained 50,000+ organisers across 140+ countries in over 20 languages.
https://organizing4power.org/
The #iww can push past the actual #labourmovement and open up directly democratic ways of operating. This can look like job branches instead of shop stewards, marking wins through employer concessions instead of contract language, and taking action over real demands instead of symbolic protests. What the IWW is doing only looks impossible because no other union will dare to try ?
https://industrialworker.org/labor-relations-realism/
#directaction #frombelow #iww #labourmovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions
It’s no mystery
We’re making history !
- LKJ *
Workers Make History - Notes from Below
https://notesfrombelow.org/issue/workers-make-history
Also
Workers’ Power From Below https://www.plutobooks.com/product/workers-power-from-below/?
* (1979)1984 live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtVkLVOP9cU
#frombelow #Labourmovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory
#CPSU Vic rally outside Victorian Parliament to Save VicHealth
+ #rankandfile members of the Nurses and Midwives Federation the #ANMF rallied in George St Central Sydney 26th July expressing anger at AHPRA their accreditation body, for adopting, the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Damian, an ANMF Vic member talks about his trip to help in #Gaza earlier this year and the need to support #Palestine against Israeli aggression
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/vichealth-jobs-nurses-palestine
Dante Philp is a member of Artists and Culture Workers London, a #rankandfile network open to all workers who want to build power in the cultural sector.
Handover is a new rank-and-file bulletin produced by workers, students and community members at St George’s Hospital in South West London. The first issue covers a campaign for fair pay for Healthcare Assistants (HCAs), the campaign against the spread of #Palantir software in the NHS, RCN investment in Israel, and the UVW campaign at St Helier and Epsom hospital.
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/the-handover-issue-1
#frombelow #healthworkers #labourmovement #rankandfile #organize #Palestine #solidarity
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/02/whos-afraid-of-richard-hooker/
#Teamsters Convention Caesars Palace #LasVegas, Nevada June 15-18, 2026.
https://teamster.org/teamsters-31st-international-convention-registration/
#BeFearless
https://be-fearless.org/
Teamster Land (book)
https://authors.tertulia.com/allenojoe-draftv4iskv/books
Italian rank-and-file unions hold nationwide strike against austerity and war
Workers across Italy struck on Thursday against austerity, genocide and war. The action was called by sindacati di…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #austerity #CGIL #Gaza #general #genocide #ICFI #IWA-RFC #Meloni #Pabloism #rankandfile #rearmament #Rome #SI-Cobas #Stalinism #strike #Trotskyism #union #War
https://www.europesays.com/italy/21583/
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/workers-ai-power-plants-south
#Ai management power grab, disguised as “inevitable technical upgrade”
Workers used four strategies proven in the past: name the real problem; unionize it; ransom it; and block it.
https://labornotes.org/2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai
Rank & File Southern Workers
https://southernworker.org/rankandfile/
#Ai #labourmovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions
Listened to “Soli Brecky”
Saturday 7:30am to 9:00am
#RankandFile Worker and Trade Union Show, covering current affairs, progressive issues and news and events from the #labourmovement
#FernandoMartí created a series of illustrations for Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard, by Ellen David Friedman, chair of the #LaborNotes board and a facilitator of the United Caucuses of #RankandFile Educators.
https://justseeds.org/keep-going-illustrating-labor/
#art #illustration #JustSeeds #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions
#Union news from around the country and hear from early #educationworkers delegate and United workers union’s “members first” Nicki
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/united-workers-union-members-first
#3Cr #Communityradio #fromBelow #LabourMovement #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #unions #UWU
Jane Latour’s oral history interviews with predominantly male building service employees, painters, carpenters, utility workers, maritime union members, as well as Teamsters in the construction industry.
AUD
https://uniondemocracy.org/
Sisters in the Brotherhoods (2008)
https://www.talkinghistory.org/sisters/
#FromBelow #LabourMovement #NYC #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #Unions #WorkingClassHistory
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
#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://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
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
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
“ - 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
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
Going to Labor Notes 2026!!
No More Blood For Oil
https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2025/no-more-blood-for-oil-ue-condemns-military-attacks-on-venezuela
For Jobs and Peace
https://www.ueunion.org/ue-policy/for-peace-jobs-and-a-pro-worker-foreign-policy
#AntiMIlitarism #Electricians #LabourMovement #NoBloodForOil #Organize #RankAndFile #Solidarity #Unions #UEU #Venezuela
To Build a Stronger Labor Movement, Go to the Members
https://labornotes.org/2025/10/build-stronger-labor-movement-go-members
#FromBelow #LabourMovement #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #unions
#OTD 1 November 1910 anarchist and trade union workplace militants met in #Barcelona to found the National Confederation of Labour union, the #CNT with the aim to "speed up the economic emancipation of the working class through the revolutionary expropriation of the bourgeoisie".
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8133/cnt-founded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo
#DirectAction #fromBelow #LabourMovement #Organize #RankandFile #SolidaridadObrera #Solidarity #unions
Who’s Afraid of Teamsters Mobilize ? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/24/whos-afraid-of-teamsters-mobilize-apparently-the-teamsters-for-a-democratic-union/
About T M
https://teamstersmobilize.com/about
#FromBelow #LabourMovement #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #Unions #Teamsters #transportworkers #UPS
If you don’t fight you lose
It has been one year since the CFMEU was put under administration by the Labor government. Since then, there have been a federal election, a failed high court challenge, and a handful of days of unprotected strike action. EBAs have continued to be negotiated despite hurdles from the FWC and bosses).
https://overland.org.au/2025/08/if-you-dont-fight-you-lose-what-now-for-the-the-cfmeu/
#art #cartoons #CFMEU #constructionworkers #frombelow #illustration #LabourMovement #Organize #rankandfile #SamWallman #solidarity #unions