Category: Shop Papers

  • Introducing The Gig Organizer

    Introducing The Gig Organizer

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    We are excited to announce the launch of The Gig Organizer, a newsletter written by and for gig workers in the service industry, and its Forum, the Gig Worker U.S. Forum.  Affiliates of the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC) are responsible for constructing independent, class-conscious, and class-combative trade-union machinery as the basis for rank-and-file democracy,…

  • The Gig Organizer #1

    The Gig Organizer #1

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    We are excited to announce the launch of The Gig Organizer, a newsletter written by and for gig workers in the service industry, and its Forum, the Gig Workers’ Forum (U.S.). The following is our statement of purpose and plans for the future.

  • Interview on rampant wage theft, managerial harassment at Chicken Salad Chick

    Interview on rampant wage theft, managerial harassment at Chicken Salad Chick

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    In response to reports of wage theft and managerial harassment at a Chicken Salad Chick restaurant in Johnson City, Tenn., we are publishing the following interview with two local rank-and-file workers, anonymized as Worker A and Worker B. We hope this interview can expose these issues and give guidance to other Chicken Salad Chick workers…

  • The State of UPS Profits and the DOL in 2026

    The State of UPS Profits and the DOL in 2026

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    New Day at UPS has been reporting on UPS’ so-called Network of the Futuresince it first rolled out the program. This transformation largely consists of closing low-volume operations, building new higher-tech operations that require fewer hourlies to process volume, and laying off employees. Only recently have we become aware of the full extent of these…

  • NLOC Amazon Warehouse Workers Organize Walkout

    NLOC Amazon Warehouse Workers Organize Walkout

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    We are glad to share this important report on work conditions during peak season from the New Labor Organizing Committee-affiliated shop organization New Day at Amazon. To reach out to them, email newdayatamz@proton.me. This last December, a New Day at Amazon-led shop committee at an Amazon Delivery Station in Ohio organized a walkout at the height…

  • Organizing Without the Workers: A Critique of Starbucks Workers United From a Barista Behind the Picket Line

    Organizing Without the Workers: A Critique of Starbucks Workers United From a Barista Behind the Picket Line

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    Published in: The Service Worker Starbucks Workers United has been planning an unfair labor practice strike for several months, all while maintaining the idea that these plans should be kept away from the non-organizing committee baristas. SBWU staffers told baristas that the strike is meant to push for Starbucks to finalize their contract; however, these…