Dublin Pan African Workers Open Meeting
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/dublin-pan-african-workers-open-meeting?fbclid=IwVERDUATZKllleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4BNP8Ba9YGjxu_hhIBzLAfvSf2sr-XoREOMs-zN3-EWCs_o_HEQUJgvcQEYg_aem_pPU94MWA2wGVZsMcV9g9tw

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For union democracy and against unnecessary bureaucracy: the DC #1 Constitutional Amendment should be considered at Convention

A group of us from the DC IWW General Membership Branch composed this message for the General Organizing Bulletin (GOB) advocating for the membership to consider a IWW Constitutional amendment that would make it easier to form industry-based union structures like Industrial Union Branches (IUBs). Unfortunately, our current General Secretary Treasurer has refused to include it in the July GOB, so we are posting it directly in some other IWW spaces.

Fellow workers, especially this year's Convention delegates,

We are writing to ask you to consider the DC #1 Constitutional Amendment at this year’s Convention, even if it is not officially accepted through the submission procedure overseen by the GST.

As of this writing, DC #1 has five official endorsements: Rochester GMB, Portland GMB, Tennessee GMB, NYC IUB 450, and Boston GMB. This far surpasses the requirement of two branch endorsements to bring a resolution before Convention and demonstrates a healthy amount of support and good-faith debate among membership.

One of the objections to DC #1 is that it would allow for some members to have more of a say in our union than others. This is not the case, and is based on a misunderstanding. Article I, Section 2 of the IWW Constitution defines Industrial Union Branches (IUBs) as a central structural expression of our union’s mission to organize the working class. If you work in multiple industries, there should be no constitutional bars to accessing multiple union structures like IUBs. Democracy is not a zero-sum game.

DC #1 pushes the union to return to its roots of seriously pursuing an industrial organizing strategy. No one is arguing for the IWW to abandon GMBs. The GMB-centric model made sense during a time when there weren’t enough workers in any industry to pursue the formation of IUBs. Today, we have a critical mass of workers in several industries, but the lack of IUBs limits the success of their organizing. Unfortunately, we have stuck with the GMB-centric model long past its expiration date.

Since 2010, how many workplace campaigns in a single industry launched by a single GMB are still ongoing? How many resulted in union shops that still exist? Besides the Portland and Bay Area GMBs, we have seen little success in terms of building industrial power through pursuing this GMB-centric model. GMBs cannot simultaneously play every role, and this is a large reason why many branches dissolve.

In the Printing and Publishing Workers Union (PPWU)—the IWW’s first officially chartered IU since 1950—fellow workers have developed administrative practices to ensure that members with overlapping memberships in GMBs are not able to vote twice in Convention or Referendum. They have been able to apply these practices to votes taken within NYC IUB 450, as well. This is all to say that we already have working models for how to implement a Constitutional Amendment like DC #1.

We ask those who oppose DC #1 to still support debating its merits at Convention. Let it pass or fail at Convention based on the strength of its ideas, rather than bureaucracy that hinders debate. As our union’s highest decision-making body, Convention should be a shining example of worker-led democracy, rather than mirror the capitalist governments we seek to dismantle.

For Industrial Democracy,

Some members of the DC General Membership Branch of the IWW

Full text of DC#1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p5wCwDR-T56lP9n4tDYwFMFXbGE6D4A-887OHkOJutg/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

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This isn’t just a skills program. It’s a way to funnel workers into non-union jobs
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vcn39t

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a mod that adds a radio station of Old Union Folk Songs to Fallout New Vegas
https://redd.it/1vdobn6
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‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/john-sayles-matewan-unions

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Workers shouldn’t have to sacrifice their health to keep their paycheck
https://redd.it/1vfjtia
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New Print Issue Available!
https://industrialworker.org/new-print-issue-available-4/

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Wildcat No.69 Available Online | IWW UK
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/wildcat-no-69-available-online

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Why is it some large cities don’t have chapters, while smaller cities do?

hi all, I’m 17, soon to be 18, and thinking of joining the IWW due to a mixture of very bad experiences with managers and my personal politics. But while looking at the chapters, I noticed that there is not a single chapter in my closest city. In fact, there isn’t one in my state at all, with the closest one being 200 miles away in bloomington. Now, Saint Louis isn’t a huge city, but it is bigger than pittsburgh or Bloomington. So why do some larger cities not have chapters? Is there any way we can help fix this and improve membership in these areas?

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A fundraiser by the IWW
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-lou

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Immigration doesn't drive crime
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-large-scale-link-crime-unauthorized.html

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We need a coordinated public defense campaign for the Minnesota 15, alongside mass democratic meetings that bring together activists, union members, and immigrant communities to discuss the next steps
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vnaak7

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Why marching band isn't exactly a sport and needs to be a labor issue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/why-marching-band-isnt-exactly-a-sport/ar-AA29HwDy?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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What side are you on
https://redd.it/1vlaqtu
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Solidarity with Aidan
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-old-spike-stop-the-repression?fbclid=IwdGRjcATrrCtwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvY21Ib5WBPPuYaJsVs9z8wDqSYx1VTOAWwFmrVnCUpZEVyHPWlYWYbiDtex_aem_z4caC6z9a5SA_7D0rvyFyg

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Top-down Swedish unions lost against Tesla
https://www.arbetsvarlden.se/if-metall-kastar-in-handduken-inga-medlemmar-kvar-pa-tesla/

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Why Marching Arts Need Unionizing not Competing or Complying.
/r/union/comments/1uz1ir4/why_marching_arts_need_unionizing_not_competing/

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[Britain] London September 19: IWW Solidarity with Lou
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/iww-solidarity-with-lou

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Any good links to free beginner piano sheet music for IWW songs?

Been learning​ piano for about one year and love the IWW songs so just wondering if there were any good links to free piano sheet music?

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This one reminds me of the old IWW song "Hallelujah I'm a Bum"
/r/FitTheWord/comments/1vt5249/turn_bum_into_iww_in_6_steps_can_you_created_by/

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