Category: The Gig Organizer
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Gig Workers Suffer Amidst War on Iran
From Edition #3 of The Gig Organizer It has been over three months since the Strait of Hormuz closed due to the US imperialist war on Iran, which has resulted in gas hyperinflation upwards of 60% from a low of $2.78/gallon in January to the current average of $4.50. Although we haven’t been hit by…
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Working Drivers and Community Defense
Although some drivers have what could be called a ‘workplace’ where they coalesce more or less consistently and frequently, all drivers are largely positioned throughout communities, around commercial and residential areas, and thus have a much greater scope than the average, stuck-in-place worker…
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The Gig Organizer #2
Shop organizations and unions are essentially political organizations of workplace and co-worker defense, integrated with the economic organization of production. Under conditions of fascism, there is an ever greater need for labor orgs to dedicate forces that can rapidly report on and respond to Fascist offensives at the workplace, or during production, most significantly ICE…
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Introducing The Gig Organizer
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,…
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The Gig Organizer #1
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.