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Class Struggle Organizing Support and Discussion!
For the Class Struggle Action Network’s September monthly meeting, you’re invited to join an organizer’s round table discussion. No current or past organizing experience needed, all workers welcome! At this gathering we will all have the opportunity to ask questions and share about the organizing we are apart of; whether that be moving forward class […]
Starbucks Workers Defy Conciliatory Leadership with Petition Demands
On June 4th, the Starbucks Workers United leadership removed me from my role as union delegate. More context can be read from past articles here. As a result of my removal, workers at my cafe do not have an acting steward to communicate the contract bargaining updates. We’re a union cafe with almost 20 workers […]
The Struggle Against A No-strike Clause In Starbucks Worker Contracts Continues On Resolutely!
Yesterday, Starbucks worker and duly elected delegate to the SBWU contract bargain, Jake Compton spoke at our CSAN general meeting regarding the developing effort to oppose the no-strike clause within the union (more on that HERE ), alongside other criticisms of the current leaderships direction which are widely felt by shop-floor workers within the union. […]
Meeting to Fight the No-Strike Clause at Starbucks
At this months Class Struggle Action Network General Meeting, come hear from Starbucks worker, Jake, who produced two articles recently for CSAN (linked below) about the struggles within Starbucks Workers United against the inclusion of No-Strike clauses in SBWU contracts. As Starbucks workers freedom to strike outside of contract expiration could be bargained away, come […]
Audio: Railroad Workers United Speaks on Railroad Worker Unity, Challenging Craft Unionism, and RWU’s 2022 Vote No Campaign
At a Class Struggle Action Network monthly meeting, an organizer from Railroad Workers United spoke on the need for railroad worker unity, the organizing of RWU’s 2022 Vote No campaign, and some history and failures of railroad craft unionism. More information about Railroad Workers United: Railroad Workers United
SBWU National Leadership Suppress Worker Dissent Over “No Strike Clause” in Contract Bargain
Starbucks is currently negotiating nationwide contract language with the Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) union, and is poised to bargain a no-strike clause into the national framework of future union contracts. In the previous article I wrote last month covering this subject, I went into some detail as to why we cannot waste time considering a […]
Providence Nurses It’s Time For An Indefinite Strike!
What follows is a leaflet distributed by members of the Class Struggle Action Network at the ongoing Providence nurses strike in Oregon. Providence nurses, you have taken a major step in organizing the largest nurse strike in the state of Oregon’s history, 3,000 workers strong! As the boss offers you wages which do not keep […]
Announcing: A Collective Study of The Great Steel Strike and it’s Lessons
Our collective study will be reading this text detailing the General Steel Strike of 1919, immersing in this history together, and drawing lessons from it to strengthen our organizing and struggles of today. We will gather on Zoom for two, 90 min. discussions, each discussion covering one half of the book. Dates and times for the […]
Say NO to a “No-Strike Clause.” Starbucks looks to negotiate away workers freedom to strike.
The Starbucks Workers United union is well into the bargaining process with the Starbucks corporation. As of today, delegates are preparing for what will be several months into the foreseeable future of extended negotiations before finalizing any contract for US Starbucks cafes. In the union’s recent meetings with Starbucks, the beginnings of a national framework […]
Join Us For May Day in Portland!
May Day in large part represents the international unified demand of the Working class and many years of organized struggle for the 8 hr work day. On this day of international importance to all workers we will be coming together to celebrate the growing struggle of workers and hear from workers in the network on […]
Labor Notes 2024: Towards a United Front for the Class Union
On April 19-21, the bi-annual Labor Notes conference of union militants, will be held in Chicago. Five thousand participants are expected. This is a beautiful proof of the vitality of the American working class, on the economic and union terrain. As the international bourgeoisie re-arm across the world in preparation for renewed inter-imperialist conflict, the […]
CSAN Monthly Meetings
Join us for our CSAN regular monthly meetings. At these events workers have an opportunity to hear from leaders within the workers movement who are paving the way to put unions back on the right track to take on the capitalist class. Workers also have the opportunity to talk with others and get ideas and […]
CSAN One Year in Retrospect
On May Day 2023 the Class Struggle Action Network held its inaugural event. The event was well attended by over 50 workers across unions and sectors. Since then the network has grown to include participants from all over the world and from a wide variety of industries and sectors. We have assisted with strike solidarity […]
Electoralism: A Dead End for the Unions
A sign of the times is the increasing popularity of the book by Joe Burns titled Class Struggle Unionism. Burns himself has been invited to speak at regional conventions of some of the countries largest unions including the National Education Association, with many leaders of prominent unions publicly affiliating themselves with the program of what […]
Join the CSAN Monthly General Meeting!
Ever wondered how workers can organize and win despite restrictive laws designed to hold us back? Come hear from rank and file education workers who are doing just that by striking in a state where it is still illegal. Join the Class Struggle Action Network (CSAN) Thursday, February 8th @ 6:30pm PST to hear from […]
Upcoming CSAN General Meeting
The Class Struggle Action Network has an upcoming General Meeting! January 11th @ 7pm PST, 9pm CST, 10pm EST on Zoom We will hear updates from recent organizing going on in the network and break into groups to discuss cross-sector solidarity mobilization, growing class unionist organizing in your area, and workplace issues/unionization effort support. If […]
CSAN Solidarity Action With Levi’s Worker Strike
On December 23rd, members of the Class Struggle Action Network spent the afternoon distributing over 200 leaflets at two Levi’s stores in Portland and Troutdale, Oregon, while holding a banner which read “Levi’s, Stop Attacks on Striking Ozak Textile Workers in Turkey”. While distributing the leaflets, we appealed to the class solidarity of workers in […]
Striking Levi’s Workers Call for International Solidarity Actions On Saturday
Since our last report on the matter, 450 worker, of the newly formed combative Birtek-Sen union, at the Özak Tekstil factory which produces Levi’s jeans, have continued their strike despite layoffs by the company and government repression. The union is now calling for international solidarity this Friday on social media and for workers to gather to […]
Fred Meyer Worker Rank and File Committee Begin Fight for $40 an Hour Ahead of Union Bargaining
The fight for $40 is on! Fred Meyer workers in UFCW local 555 have initiated their own rank and file committee called United for Class Wide Action (UFCWA). UFCWA is committed to ensuring a contract bargaining campaign that will truly improve their working conditions. Sign their petition to support their demands, help circulate their petition, […]
Internationalist Class Solidarity from the United States with the struggling Özak Tekstil Workers in Turkey! (Turkish and English)
For the past 10 days, factory workers at Özak Tekstil, a textile factory in Urfa, southeastern Turkey, have been on strike and fighting heroically against the company, the collaborationist union, and the boss’s regime. It all started on November 19th, when about 450 workers out of 700 employed at the factory gathered in an assembly […]
Pharmacy Workers Bring Armageddon to the Bosses
From Monday through Wednesday last week, thousands of pharmacy workers from Walgreens, CVS, and RiteAid walked off the job in what is being dubbed “Pharmageddon”. The workers are escalating this fight because they are realize that the bosses cannot be reasoned with, as shown by their increasingly mad and desperate pursuit of ever-shrinking scraps of […]
Tech Workers Need Class Unionism!
Longer hours, fewer benefits, a demand that work-from-home-employees return to the office, and less respect as our bosses ask us if what we do can be replaced with a machine are a factor from coast to coast, and across the sea. From China, to India, to America, nobody who works in tech is safe […]
The Class Unionist #1 Available for Print and Distro
Issue #1 of The Class Unionist is composed of articles posted on our website through to the first week of October. They include submissions for a variety of workers in the network across the United States. It is printed on 11 X 17 sheets front and back. The PDF can be downloaded below. We encourage […]
The State of the Starbucks Struggle: Current Obstacles as Red Cup Day Strikes Near
The struggle thus far is best characterized by the failed strategies of labor bureaucrats in the union to deliver decisive wins, and the necessity of class unionism to revive the labor movement. Material wins for Starbucks workers cannot be sustained outside of conscious efforts in the class struggle. The Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) union has […]
Class Unionists Shut Down Portland Walgreens in Solidarity with Pharmacist Walkout
On October 9th Pharmacists with the American Pharmacists Association (APA) union began a three day walk out in Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Massachusetts. The actions are taking place in protest of increasingly unsafe working conditions. While Walgreens pharmacies across the country have been shutdown, other Walgreens workers remain on the job, forced to endure the […]
UPS Kills Another Worker
Chris Begley, a devoted United Parcel Service (UPS) veteran collapsed during his delivery route on August 23 and passed away on the 27th. Begley, 57, had been looking forward to retirement after devoting 28 years to the company. He was a father of two and a loving husband. It was a blistering August day when […]
Picket Solidarity at Kaiser Workers Strike
Striking Kaiser employees, working across California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon are entering their 2nd day in a 3 day strike meant to turn up the heat in bargaining negotiations. The 75,000 workers on strike comprise 40% of Kaiser Permanente’s staff in what is the largest health care strike in US history. Should this limited strike […]
UFCW Fred Meyer Workers Form Class Struggle Committee in Portland!
Over a dozen grocery workers at a Fred Meyers in the Portland area have come together to form a class struggle committee. The workers have been organizing together for over three months with the support of the Class Struggle Action Network. The workers are fighting increasingly unsafe work conditions and preparing to push their union […]
CSAN on the UAW Picket Line in Beaverton
Workers in the Class Struggle Action Network mobilized solidarity on the UAW picket line in Beaverton Oregon yesterday and will continue throughout the duration of the struggle. Immediately the fraternal air of solidarity was felt amongst all workers on the line. Picket lines mean do not cross, and workers made that clear blocking managers trying […]
Camas Teachers Strike Comes to an End
The Camas educators strikes ended with a new 2 year agreement. I want to point out something that shouldn’t be miraculous, but is in today’s climate of regime unions. Two things standout to me. When the bargaining team reached a tentative agreement, the union didn’t mobilize it’s propaganda to convince the rank and file to […]
Evergreen Teachers Strike Report Back
By: Mitchell A few days ago, 93% of the Evergreen Education Association voted to authorize a strike ahead of the upcoming school year. Per the union’s detailed graph on its website, the main contentions (of many) are the District’s non-commitment to a plan for hiring Special Education teachers, the proposed “black out” days where teachers […]
Teachers in Camas Washington Strike
Today teachers in Camas launched their first strike in the history of their school district. Workers began picketing 9 sites and 15 buildings on what was supposed to be the first day of school. After The district held back on initiating bargaining till summer vacation, despite negotiations having been scheduled to begin in the spring. […]
UPS And USPS Class Unionists, Coordinate Solidarity Ahead of Possible UPS Strike
Ahead of the looming UPS workers strike class unionist in both UPS and USPS began to organize a coordinated event to plan for solidarity actions between the two workplaces. A local member of UPS attended the CSAN May Day event. He decided to get more involved in the network, so they were put in contact […]
Providence Medical Workers, Keep Up the Fight!
The following is a flyer which was mass distributed during the Providence medical strike by CSAN worker militants.
Georgian Workers Send Message of Solidarity to Providence Strikers
A solidarity message for Striking medical workers at Providence from The Health Care workers of “Solidarity Union” in the country of Georgia, affiliated with CSAN. The struggle of workers is shared internationally.The message of solidarity is translated into english below…“Due to very rough working conditions and inadequately low wages, in the city of Portland 2000 […]
Join Us on The Picket Lines at Providence!
**Location details for picket line at Providence Medical center**CSAN workers in the network will continue to hold the busiest entrance/exit on 47th near the freeway overpass. It is marked on the map above as ‘A’. The timing of our mobilization at 6pm is well timed to block 4 buses of scabs, many scab van in […]
Scabs Go Home!
Travelling nurses hired by Providence and staying at the Hyatt Regency got delivered a message. Those who decided to work anyways are Scabs. Dozens of the above leaflet were distributed to nurses and posted around the hotel.
Providence Medical Workers Move to Strike June 19th
Providence nurses and clinicians at multiple medical establishments go on strike this Monday June 19th. CSAN is mobilizing solidarity activities. RSVP to let us know what you can show up for.RSVP Here:bit.ly/ona-strike There fight is ours. Join other workers in the Class Struggle Action Network in activating to strengthen the strongest weapon workers have, the […]
Class Unionism BBQ Report Back
60 workers came together yesterday at our Class Unionism BBQ Potluck to strengthen the fighting capacity of the working class through the building of a Class Union Movement. The Network now has grown to nearly 200 workers across 30 unions! Now we enter a week of solidarity action at the 5 day strike of ONA […]
Class Unionism 101 Zine
What is Class Struggle Unionism? At the most basic level class struggle unionism recognizes that the capitalist class, the employers and bosses, have absolutely no common interest with the working class. For us, unionism is about a struggle between classes. Agreements with employers are temporary truces rather than an alignment of interests. Examples of class […]
Tabling at the Trouble Maker School
Dozens of militant workers at the Labor Notes Trouble Makers school signed up to join the class struggle Action Network to strengthen the fighting capacity of the working class. We distributed a ton of class unionist literature and many folks we talked to were eager to get to work to move the labor movement beyond […]
May Day Event Report Back
CSAN’s 2023 May Day event was a huge success! It was exciting to see workers come together on a day of immense historic importance to our class to learn about and discuss the uniting of our struggles into the formation of a class union. On this May Day, we remember the power of the general […]
Workers Fight On Despite Sell Out Contract! Solidarity With Weyerhaeuser Workers!
We in solidarity with all Weyerhauser workers, particularly those who voted no on the bogus contract pushed down their throats by union officials and the Weyerhaeuser corporation on October 29th. Don’t take this sitting down! The contract passed with a slim margin of 54%, with 46% of workers bitterly rejecting it. Due to the underhanded […]
Weyerhaeuser Strike Continues! All Power to the Rank N’ File!
This past weekend, class unionists visited the Weyerhaeuser workers picket lines in Lebanon, Springville, and Eugene, OR. While visiting, we distributed dozens of copies of The Workers Wildcat (Download Here). The union and Weyerhaeuser resumed negotiations this past Friday, as the workers continue to hold the picket line in a struggle for better wages and […]
Weyerhauser Strike Enters It’s 3rd Week. Show Your Solidarity!
Yesterday, Sept. 22nd, we made contact with Weyerhauser workers in Raymond and Longview Washington. On the picket lines we distributed close to 100 copies of The Workers Wildcat, with several workers offering to help further circulate the publication among others on the picket lines. The strike is headed into its third week. Workers told us […]
<strong>Weyerhaeuser Workers Strike Across the Pacific Northwest</strong>
On Tuesday September 13, 1,200 Weyerhauser workers walked off the job, shutting down production and forming picket lines across over half a dozen facilities between Oregon and Washington. Making Weyerhaeuser workers the latest section of the working class to join the international wave of workers militancy which has been growing over the past several years […]