Oklahoma IWW

09/20/2025

Central Oklahoma IWW is getting organized!

Our movement won’t win with doomscrolling. Quit sitting on the sidelines of the class war.

Join the Industrial Workers of the World to get trained and organize where you work.

Fight back; build the union!

To sign up: https://redcard.iww.org/user/register

To reach us you can email: centraloklahomaiww@gmail.com

Or call us at: +1 (405) 633-3871

Or go to our web page: https://www.centralokiww.org/

09/03/2025

“STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!” is a great new documentary about the life & times of the brilliant Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!. She has fearlessly and faithfully been a beacon of journalistic truth and justice for years and this doc brings to life her incredible career and important work at a time when it is most needed.

www.stealthisstory.org

08/07/2025

We do the work, we deserve the world

An Injury to one is an injury to ALL

04/04/2025

National mobilizations under the banner of “Hands Off” start tomorrow (Saturday, April 5). Find a rally near you:

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.

03/31/2025

Longtime farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week in what many believe to be retaliation for his organizing. Juarez was pulled over while driving his wife to work. ICE agents shattered Juarez’s window and dragged him out of...

11/14/2024

There's still time to register for tonight's Stewards' Workshop (Thursday, Nov. 14) on handling difficult supervisors!

Register here: https://labornotes.org/events/2024/stewards-workshop-dealing-difficult-supervisors-november

09/21/2024

Cowardly bosses

We were out picketing this morning in support of the 2under23 STEP Employees Union. They have been trying to get a contract with their employer (the STEP Fund) since November 2023 when they affiliated with us.

05/07/2024

03/25/2024

Hell Yeah!

Reminder!

Hi fellow workers,
The Central Oklahoma IWW Branch's education committee is hosting a book talk and discussion on Thursday, March 28th, 6-7:30pm over Zoom with co-authors Erin D**e and Brendan Muckian-Bates on their new book, Rank-and-File Rebels: Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes (2023, CU Open Press).
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/mykhCqspfQ9SdGb16 for the event and we'll email you a Zoom link.
The book engages solidarity unionism as a lens to understand how educators undertook illegal statewide strikes in 2018 in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona. Centering the perspectives and experiences of educator-organizers, the book contextualizes the strikes within a longer history of educator unionism and in-tension ways of thinking about and practicing theories of power and change in education labor struggles.
You can access a FREE pdf of the book ( https://wac.colostate.edu/books/precarity/rebels/ ) and an interview with co-author Brendan Muckian-Bates about the book ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sEu_ibI7Q ). There is no expectation for attendees to read the book.
This is a public event and all are welcome. Feel free to share!
In solidarity,
Central OK IWW Education Committee

03/25/2024

Hell yeah!

Reminder!

Hi fellow workers,
The Central Oklahoma IWW Branch's education committee is hosting a book talk and discussion on Thursday, March 28th, 6-7:30pm over Zoom with co-authors Erin D**e and Brendan Muckian-Bates on their new book, Rank-and-File Rebels: Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes (2023, CU Open Press).
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/mykhCqspfQ9SdGb16 for the event and we'll email you a Zoom link.
The book engages solidarity unionism as a lens to understand how educators undertook illegal statewide strikes in 2018 in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona. Centering the perspectives and experiences of educator-organizers, the book contextualizes the strikes within a longer history of educator unionism and in-tension ways of thinking about and practicing theories of power and change in education labor struggles.
You can access a FREE pdf of the book ( https://wac.colostate.edu/books/precarity/rebels/ ) and an interview with co-author Brendan Muckian-Bates about the book ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sEu_ibI7Q ). There is no expectation for attendees to read the book.
This is a public event and all are welcome. Feel free to share!
In solidarity,
Central OK IWW Education Committee

03/11/2024

Come on out y'all!

Hi fellow workers,

The Central Oklahoma IWW Branch's education committee is hosting a book talk and discussion on Thursday, March 28th, 6-7:30pm over Zoom with co-authors Erin D**e and Brendan Muckian-Bates on their new book, Rank-and-File Rebels: Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes (2023, CU Open Press).

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/mykhCqspfQ9SdGb16 for the event and we'll email you a Zoom link.

The book engages solidarity unionism as a lens to understand how educators undertook illegal statewide strikes in 2018 in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona. Centering the perspectives and experiences of educator-organizers, the book contextualizes the strikes within a longer history of educator unionism and in-tension ways of thinking about and practicing theories of power and change in education labor struggles.

You can access a FREE pdf of the book ( https://wac.colostate.edu/books/precarity/rebels/ ) and an interview with co-author Brendan Muckian-Bates about the book ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sEu_ibI7Q ). There is no expectation for attendees to read the book.

This is a public event and all are welcome. Feel free to share!

In solidarity,
Central OK IWW Education Committee

03/06/2024

On this day, 6 March 1913, Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the Industrial Workers of the World union's Little Red Song Book.
Sung on picket lines and in working class protests around the country, it asks workers: "Would you have mansions of gold in the sky/and live in a shack, way in the back?/Would you have wings up in heaven to fly/And starve here with rags on your back?" And advises them: "There is power, there is power/In a band of workingmen,/When they stand hand in hand/That’s a power, that’s a power/That must rule in every land,/One Industrial Union Grand".
Hill was executed by the state of Utah in 1915 in what is widely regarded as a politically-motivated miscarriage of justice.
Get it and over 250 other IWW songs in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-big-red-songbook-250-iww-songs