A history of the IWW’s organizer training program

101: Building the Committee - "undertaking their own campaign at work and even mounting a modest direct action with coworkers to settle a grievance or win a demand."

102: The Committee in Action - a systematic grievance handling process based in workplace action, as well as the nuts and bolts and strategic questions involved in maintaining a functioning shop committee

“The Industrial Workers of the World do not recognize that the bosses have any rights at all,” testified Big Bill Haywood before Congress’s Commission on Industrial Relations in 1915. “We say that no union has a right to enter into an agreement with the employers … because it is the inherent mission of the working class to overthrow capitalism and establish itself in its place.”