Originally Titled, 95 Years of Revolutionary Industrial Unionism, by Michael Hargis - featured in Anarcho Syndicalist Review, #27 and #28.
1990
- In the Redwood Country of California: IWW-Earth First! Local #1 represents several workers in a dispute with Georgia Pacific Lumber Company over compensation for a PCB spill at its Fort Bragg mill.
- Earth First!, under IWW influence, renounces tree spiking as a tactic to save ancient forests.
- IWW-EF! Organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney blown up in a car bombing and charged by FBI with transporting the bomb, charges later withdrawn. International demonstrations held in support of Bari and Cherney. The bombing was an attempt to disrupt the Redwood Summer project being organized by Earth First! to save the Redwoods.
- IWW-EF! Local #2 established in southern Illinois to combat clearcutting in the Shawnee National Forest.
- Unsuccessful attempt to organize workers at Barbara's Bookstore, Chicago, IL.
- IWW participates in International Conference of Revolutionary Syndicalists in Sweden.
- Minneapolis, MN: Staff at the homeless action group, Up and Out of Poverty, joins IWW.
1991
- IWW moves out of Chicago for the first time since formation in 1905. San Francisco becomes the seat of the General Headquarters.
- San Francisco Wobs agitate for a General Strike to oppose U.S. war against Iraq.
- Workers Group, a workers' association set up by New College of California administration to coopt worker discontent, affiliates with the IWW after management tries to implement pay cuts without consulting the Group.
- Education Workers Industrial Union Network formed.
- IWW grants defense committee, Wobbly Bureau of Investigation, $25,000 to investigate and sue FBI over suspected FBI involvement in attempted assassination of Bari and Cherney.
- IWW campaigns against incineration of toxic wastes produced by Essroc Materials Company, a cement manufacturing plant, in Lehigh Valley, PA.
- University of California at Berkeley Recyclers form IWW Job Branch.
1992
- Lehigh Valley, PA: IWW takes up boycott of Van Heusen shirts in support of Guatemalan unionists.
- Ann Arbor, MI: People's Wherehouse closes, ending 10-year IWW presence.
- Allentown, PA: Striking workers at Boulevard Bingo line up with IWW after Lehigh Valley Wobs offer support.
- Janitors at the End Up, a gay bar in San Francisco, locked out after forming a job branch of IWW. Picketing initiated in response.
- Berkeley, CA: ASUC Recycler IWWs strike in sympathy with teaching assistants.
1993
- Allentown, PA: May. Negotiations begin between IWW and Boulevard Bingo. IWW strike wins contract at Boulevard Bingo in July reinstating strikers and winning $25,000 in back pay. Management later reneges.
- Los Angeles, CA: IWW files for NLRB election at Aaron Records. Loses vote.
- Philadelphia, PA: Temple University grad student fired for trying to organize and IWW job branch.
- General Organizing Committee set up for Entertainment and Recreation IU 630.
- British section re-launched with formation of General Membership Branch in Oxford-Swindon area.
- IWW Industrial/Environmental Toxicology Project begun in Seattle. Philadelphia-based Kinko Co-worker Network/Duplication Workers Network set up.
1994
- Swindon, England: IWW Education Workers IU620 job branch take part in a nationwide campaign against privatization of the Research Council.
- Allentown, PA: Boulevard Bingo bosses (Allied Airforce) sue IWW organizer Lenny Flank for libel.
- Kinkos Co-worker Network grows.
- Wobs launch Progressive Temps/Temp Workers Union as a union hiring hall for temporary workers in San Francisco.
- Oxford, England, IWW occupies abandoned cinema in bid to turn it into a self-managed social center. Broken up by police after a short while. Oxford Claimants Union joins IWW.
- London, IWW Couriers Union is organized.
- Edinburgh, Scotland, IU620 (Education Workers) job branch set up at Stevenson College.
- Organizing drives launched at ACCO Manufacturing and among bike messengers in Chicago.
1995
- Wob fired for organizing at Food Bin/Herb Room in Santa Cruz, CA.
- Berkeley, CA, Recycling Buyback Station job branch organized.
- Ottawa, Ontario: Street musicians campaign against $5.00/day fee imposed by city.
- San Francisco, CA, and Burlington, VT: Wobblies busted during Free Mumia demonstrations.
- Albany, NY, IWW takes part in Living Wage Campaign.
- Stevenson College job branch in successful petition campaign to prevent lay-offs, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Chicago, IL: IWW organizer Mitch Neher fired for organizing against speedup at ACCO. Organizing drive fades.






