1919 was one of the most eventful and promising years for the local I.W.W. because of the Seattle General Strike. Sixty-five thousand of the city's workers, from hotel maids to garbage collectors, announced they would not work until the federal government and local shipyard owners granted wage increases to workers in the city's shipyards which had boomed during the war. This walkout virtually shut down Seattle from February 4th to February 9th. Although the more conservative American Federation of Labor was mainly responsible for the strike, the Seattle I.W.W. nonetheless participated and saw the strike as an harbinger of more worker solidarity and radicalism to come.

The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida.

In a now infamous backroom deal hatched between the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the Farm Bureau, southern white segregationists, and new deal democrats, farm workers and domestic servants were specifically excluded from the right to engage in activities of mutual aid, protection, and collective bargaining as extended to other U.S. workers under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Starting in WWII and through the mid 1960s the infamous “Bracero” program also facilitated the recruitment of close to four million seasonal farm workers from Mexico into the U.S. as a cheap labor option for agribusiness.

Our cooperative is dedicated to promote the mutual welfare and interests of log truck operators throughout the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Our membership consists of operators in every county in Western Washington plus many counties in Eastern Washington, as well as many members in Idaho, and Montana.

We desire our members to work cooperatively with northwestern logging contractors AND to educate timberland owners and logging contractors about the increasing costs we are facing and the need to fairly and adequately compensate the drivers who haul their products to mills and market. Higher hauling fees equal safer log trucks!

SFA is a national network of youth and students organizing in solidarity with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields.

We work closely with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a grassroots farmworker organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage immigrant workers.

SFA is a founding member of the Alliance for Fair Food.

US/LEAP is an independent non-profit organization that supports economic justice and basic rights for workers in Central America, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Mexico. US/LEAP focuses especially on the struggles of workers who are employed directly or indirectly by U.S. companies such as Starbucks (coffee), Chiquita (bananas), and Gap (clothing).