Trade Union Organizing between protest and project book presentation and discussion with Peter Birch (author and historian, Hamburg)
Monday 27 September 20 clock in Sik (district initiative Koblenz Street) Koblenzer Str 9 (near S-Bahn-Station-Galluswarte)
Unions lose
for years in many countries in influence and members. In the U.S., this crisis has been addressed with the techniques of organization, which had been previously tested in the struggles of the radical left and social movements. As an international model are frequently stage protests inside the building cleaners Los Angeles the early 1990s. Their "Justice for Janitors" campaigns have been the film "Bread and Roses" by Ken Loach widely known and influential.
has since experienced the dream of a renewal of the world trade union movement boosted, and was organizing in trade unions and social movements to the new magic word. But what organizing is all about? And are the methods that has developed a part of the U.S. labor movement in general transferable? What can we learn from the transnational experiences of other countries - to learn - like South Africa and South Korea? What contradictions exist between the "obstinacy" of the fighting and institutional logic of the trade unions? And how can the anger over the deteriorating working and living conditions in everyday, collective action beyond separation and competition of workers among themselves changed?
The book by Peter Birch reconstructs the genesis of the Organizing the transnational scale, and reports on current experiences in some German Organizing projects. Fact and of the possibility of developing self-organized Organizing Concepts from below we would like to discuss with the author and the participants of the event.
Organized by:
Industrial Workers of the World General
local group
Frankfurt in cooperation with: Rosa Luxembourg Foundation Hesse
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