Oklahoma IWW

Oklahoma IWW The IWW is a member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our communities. Why wait?

IWW members are organizing to win better conditions today and build a world with economic democracy tomorrow. We want our workplaces run for the benefit of workers and communities rather than for a handful of bosses and executives. Since the IWW was founded in 1905, we have made significant contributions to the labor struggles around the world and have a proud tradition of organizing across gender

, ethnic and racial lines - a tradition begun long before such organizing was popular. We invite you to become a member whether or not the IWW happens to have representation rights in your workplace. We organize the worker, not the job, and recognize that unions are not about government certification or employer recognition but about workers coming together to address common concerns. Sometimes this means refusing to work with dangerous equipment and chemicals. Sometimes it means striking or signing a contract. Other times it mean agitating around particular issues or grievances in a workplace or industry. The IWW is a democratic, member-run union. That means members decide what issues to address, and which tactics to use and we directly vote on office holders, from stewards to national offices. Join the IWW and organize for a better future.

National mobilizations under the banner of “Hands Off” start tomorrow (Saturday, April 5). Find a rally near you:
04/04/2025

National mobilizations under the banner of “Hands Off” start tomorrow (Saturday, April 5). Find a rally near you:

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.

03/31/2025

Longtime farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week in what many believe to be retaliation for his organizing. Juarez was pulled over while driving his wife to work. ICE agents shattered Juarez’s window and dragged him out of...

Cowardly bosses
09/21/2024

Cowardly bosses

We were out picketing this morning in support of the 2under23 STEP Employees Union. They have been trying to get a contract with their employer (the STEP Fund) since November 2023 when they affiliated with us.

05/07/2024
Hell Yeah!
03/25/2024

Hell Yeah!

Reminder!

Hi fellow workers,
The Central Oklahoma IWW Branch's education committee is hosting a book talk and discussion on Thursday, March 28th, 6-7:30pm over Zoom with co-authors Erin D**e and Brendan Muckian-Bates on their new book, Rank-and-File Rebels: Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes (2023, CU Open Press).
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/mykhCqspfQ9SdGb16 for the event and we'll email you a Zoom link.
The book engages solidarity unionism as a lens to understand how educators undertook illegal statewide strikes in 2018 in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona. Centering the perspectives and experiences of educator-organizers, the book contextualizes the strikes within a longer history of educator unionism and in-tension ways of thinking about and practicing theories of power and change in education labor struggles.
You can access a FREE pdf of the book ( https://wac.colostate.edu/books/precarity/rebels/ ) and an interview with co-author Brendan Muckian-Bates about the book ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sEu_ibI7Q ). There is no expectation for attendees to read the book.
This is a public event and all are welcome. Feel free to share!
In solidarity,
Central OK IWW Education Committee

Hell yeah!
03/25/2024

Hell yeah!

Reminder!

Hi fellow workers,
The Central Oklahoma IWW Branch's education committee is hosting a book talk and discussion on Thursday, March 28th, 6-7:30pm over Zoom with co-authors Erin D**e and Brendan Muckian-Bates on their new book, Rank-and-File Rebels: Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes (2023, CU Open Press).
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/mykhCqspfQ9SdGb16 for the event and we'll email you a Zoom link.
The book engages solidarity unionism as a lens to understand how educators undertook illegal statewide strikes in 2018 in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona. Centering the perspectives and experiences of educator-organizers, the book contextualizes the strikes within a longer history of educator unionism and in-tension ways of thinking about and practicing theories of power and change in education labor struggles.
You can access a FREE pdf of the book ( https://wac.colostate.edu/books/precarity/rebels/ ) and an interview with co-author Brendan Muckian-Bates about the book ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sEu_ibI7Q ). There is no expectation for attendees to read the book.
This is a public event and all are welcome. Feel free to share!
In solidarity,
Central OK IWW Education Committee

Come on out y'all!
03/11/2024

Come on out y'all!

Hi fellow workers,

The Central Oklahoma IWW Branch's education committee is hosting a book talk and discussion on Thursday, March 28th, 6-7:30pm over Zoom with co-authors Erin D**e and Brendan Muckian-Bates on their new book, Rank-and-File Rebels: Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes (2023, CU Open Press).

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/mykhCqspfQ9SdGb16 for the event and we'll email you a Zoom link.

The book engages solidarity unionism as a lens to understand how educators undertook illegal statewide strikes in 2018 in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona. Centering the perspectives and experiences of educator-organizers, the book contextualizes the strikes within a longer history of educator unionism and in-tension ways of thinking about and practicing theories of power and change in education labor struggles.

You can access a FREE pdf of the book ( https://wac.colostate.edu/books/precarity/rebels/ ) and an interview with co-author Brendan Muckian-Bates about the book ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sEu_ibI7Q ). There is no expectation for attendees to read the book.

This is a public event and all are welcome. Feel free to share!

In solidarity,
Central OK IWW Education Committee

03/06/2024

On this day, 6 March 1913, Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the Industrial Workers of the World union's Little Red Song Book.
Sung on picket lines and in working class protests around the country, it asks workers: "Would you have mansions of gold in the sky/and live in a shack, way in the back?/Would you have wings up in heaven to fly/And starve here with rags on your back?" And advises them: "There is power, there is power/In a band of workingmen,/When they stand hand in hand/That’s a power, that’s a power/That must rule in every land,/One Industrial Union Grand".
Hill was executed by the state of Utah in 1915 in what is widely regarded as a politically-motivated miscarriage of justice.
Get it and over 250 other IWW songs in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-big-red-songbook-250-iww-songs

02/27/2024
01/02/2024

BRUSSELS, BE—For over two years now, IWW Brussels in Belgium has been organizing in the healthcare sector. Workers are uniting and fighting to improve their working conditions and wages. The method…

12/29/2023

Calls for a general strike usually skip over the hard work of organizing one. But UAW leader Shawn Fain is urging unions to align their contract expiration dates for May 1, 2028 — setting up the possibility of a mass May Day strike.

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