Who We Are:
We are members of the Industrial Workers of the World who work in the electronic communications industry. Our organization is open to All workers engaged in telephone, telegraph, radio, television, satellite communication, and computer operation, including programming, and networking.
Our goal is to build unity between all workers who work in the electronic communications industry, regardless of our occupation, seniority, card level, union membership, or what other unions we belong to. We aim to assist and complement other unions efforts to defend workers' rights, to take action where they can't due to anti-union laws, to organize the unorganized, to educate workers as to their rights, and to forge new ground for organized labor.
Despite the hype of the "telecommunications revolution" this so-called "revolution" has been nothing of the sort for workers in the communications industry, because the employers continue to treat workers as slaves. The solution to this problem is obvious: abolition of wage slavery and one big union.
Email List
IWW Members working in this industry are encouraged and invited to join the email list for Industrial Department 500 at dept500@lists.iww.org
About IU560:
- Until All Communications are Free - The right to free communications is a basic human right for which people have fought and struggled
Current Campaigns:
- Free Speech TV - Boulder, Colorado 2004.
Please Note - Even if there isn't a corresponding link for each industrial union, there may still be a functioning Industrial Union Organizing Committee. Please see our list of IWW Branches for more information.
If you cannot find an IWW branch in your industry or community, We will help you start an IWW branch if none currently exists.
This section also includes information on how to recruit new members, how to hold and run successful meetings, and how to deal with sensitive issues, such as diversity and burnout.
