Power in the Union

[death9719]

the Middle East is our next chance after Spain

[death9719]

we stopped fighting for our rights in the 30s that is why we are backsliding to the working conditions of the 1880s 

[coolmike643]

Fight on Wisconsin - The Nation Workers are behind you!

[queerveganliberal]

vcx

[Rykemasters]

Just spotted a Quebec flag in the back of that picture at 2:12

I was vaguely aware we had a branch of the IWW, but I'd never seen a banner or flag for it, even in protests involving both unions and red and black flags.

[WildcatAntifa]

solidarity from the FAU/IAA

[xgenra]

ok BENJAMIN

how many in the usa actually pay dues to the wobblies?

[xgenra]

how many people in the USA belong to the IWW?

and, what has the IWW done lately (since the start of the recession.) to improve wages for the rank and file?

[Benjammin911]

#1) Last count, we had at least 115 million members in the US (they just don't know it yet). #2) Since 1905, there has not been one single day that the IWW and its members have not been out on the street fighting the bosses, supporting their fellow workers, and trying to educate the working class of the power that it possesses. And well keep on doing it 'till the cows come home.

[EdUCate4All]

Yep, everybody should just give up because progress requires struggle and sometimes we lose. No use fighting greed and inequality. We're all screwed.

Go home and hide under the covers. I'm going the the next fight.

[MisterTusk]

Hey, I got a question. Guy in the black shirt, red tie, and what appears to be a sunglass monocle; what's his name? I assume he is someone influential.

[Benjammin911]

Damn right he's influential. He's a working stiff just like the rest of us.

[MisterTusk]

Couldn't influence working stiffs meaningfully unless he was a working stiff himself. But who is he?

[DeadBunnyLane]

The IWW is coming!

Fellow workers, join the One Big Union; you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

NC Wobbly

IU 620

[Evthedrunk]

unity is our strength now lets change things 6 billion v 50m rich folk

[kingjohntheman]

An Injury to one is an injury to all! Solidarity brothers. Our struggle will succeed.

[Adornai]

IWW Greetings from Germany !

[Nederlandac]

Join the union, like I did.

[ryskpompa]

Goood :D

[EmmaYaBasta]

nice vid. check out the wonderful 'Graphic History" of the Wobblies, featuring comic strips by Harvey Pekar, Peter Kuper, Seth Tobocman, Jeffrey Lewis, Sabrina Jones and others...

[Streatham1966]

The time is getting closer - organize!

[dufvasven]

Where the hell did the USA go wrong... The last 20-30 years have been terrible for the rights and welfare of the working class.

[Larkin1907]

The USA mate? It's gone wrong for working people all over the world. Capitalism is the disease, the IWW is the cure!

The Scouse Wobbly!

IU 560

(Postal Workers)

[Benjammin911]

@dufvasven We got lazy and apathetic. The bosses are looking for ways to corner us every second. When we make some gains in the workplace we can't just sit back on our laurels, we have to keep fighting because you know they are going to keep coming after us!

[poleske]

@dufvasven Reagan started it and it has just snowballed from there.

[ElNuevoChe93]

@dufvasven The workers have endured hell these years because Regan and Thatcher crushed them in the late 70's. But the class war is far from over and its coming back.

[amsterdam78]

Wobblies Forever!

IWW!!

[sonicspy79]

R.I.P. Utah Philips. very motivating stuff.

[rydag11]

When I heard on NPR that he had died I screamed. I had the good fortune to see one of his concerts it was so funny my sides were hurting from laughing so much

[RudeRed69]

IWW What we stand for: MORE WAGES Better Working Conditions Shorter Hours EMANCIPATION S O L I D A R I T Y Abolition of the Wage System Abolition of Unemployment Shop Democracy GOOD PAY OR BUM WORK Think it over: Joint the ONE BIG UNION, fight for the full product of your labor!

[RedCeltic]

I couldn't have said it better myself Fellow Worker! All together now for the OBU!

[delducja]

For the OBU! Thanks for using youtube to spread our message! To borrow from Woodie Guthrie, THIS WEAPON can defeat a few fascists too!!

FW Jim in bozeman

[dirkcjelli]

RIP Utah Phillips...

[Brian4186]

If only someday, workers get it and undestand the power we could have if we unite. Even when I explain it to folks, they don't care, as long as they can save an extra dime, they will shop at Wal-Mart. We need to find a way to get our message to people...it's not working!

[ehunden88]

Brian4186

Check of Holland socialist party (SP) the have grown from 3% to 17% in 10 years, the larget growing leftparty i Europe

[xnostromo]

Solidarity on the left! I live in a "right to work state" (if I could roll my eyes on the internet, by golly I would), and our workers are screwed out of a decent life constantly. Louisiana needs better unions!

[sweetpotos]

4 hour day HELL FUCKING YES! LONG LIVE THE IWW!!!

[randyflats]

A very powerful song from Bruce, his message is as important today as it was when it was written. Also, my 5's to the Director for a nice vid show................onward, Randy

[RedCeltic]

Thanks... but who's Bruce? This was writen by Joe Hill and sung by Utah Phillips.

[randyflats]

Sorry, I'm new to You Tube....Bruce"Utah"Phillips. I should not have used his name.. I have some of his early stuff on vinyl..My error.........I've just always called him Bruce..I checked years ago to see who penned the Flatt & Scruggs cover, Rock salt & Nails and it was he...I'll try to follow the format as I learn this system.. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.....Randy

[RedCeltic]

OH, No worries man. I figured "Utah" wasn't his real name, so it's obviously me who was ignorant. I can't say I know much of his history, and only know of the albums sold through IWW.

[Rheingoldi]

Hey RedCeltic, I too wondered who "Bruce" was & I heard him on Pacifica Radio for years

in this part of the country. Here's a little bit info from Wheat Wiki:"... took on the nickname U. Utah Phillips in honor of his favorite country singer, T. Texas Tyler. Phillips was active in labor and leftist politics in conservative Utah during the 1960s and ran for the U.S. Senate in 1968 on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket.

[Rheingoldi]

"He received more than 6,000 votes; not enough to be elected, but enough to get himself blacklisted in the state. Unable to find employment because of his radical views, he left Utah in 1969 and hopped freight trains to get to his coffee house and campus gigs."

[Rheingoldi]

Listening to a memorial to Utah this Sunday morning, for he has died last Friday. It's on KPFA's Across the Great Divide (host Robbie Osman)

[prokunin]

Greateast swede ever borned! Class-strugle/klasskamp. Don`t grief get organized/Sörj inte, organisera er! Solidarity from the workinng class of sweden!

[thelaughingman]

A song worth singing.

[konopelli]

If you gotta boss, you needa UNION!

[losthills]

Utah Phillips doing Joe Hill--

It doesn't get any better than that!

[Shootthebosses]

Greetings to all Fellow Workers from a Liverpool wobbly. Solidarity Forever! OBU

[aybayb]

Unite and Organize! There has never been a better time for One Big Union.

-- Joe H.

[FionMacCumhail]

Great video