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On for Young and Old: How Boston University’s Resident Assistants Pulled Off a Double Strike - Working Mass By: Stacey Yuen and Alana Edwards, with contributions from Thomas Baker This article was originally published in Long-Haul Magazine in its Winter 2025 Issue. In Fall 2024, Boston University’s Resident...

Worker reflections on BU ResLife's 2024 double strike, targeting strategic moments of the calendar through mass participation, cross-neighborhood stewards, and coworker conversations as BUGWU's strike raged on campus.

Originally from @long-haul-mag.bsky.social

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Noise, Vibration, and Dust: A Wildcat Strike in Armenia’s Largest Mine | Long-Haul Mag This summer, the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) brought a strike of running trades workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (CPKC, or just “CP”) t...

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They Led a Charge: New Orleans Teacher Organizing During the Depression | Long-Haul Mag SUMMER 2025 ISSUE 03

Read more about this history in our third issue:

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After the action, teachers across the color line jointly launched a campaign through the New Orleans Citizens Committee for Equalizing Educational Opportunities, winning pay equalization for Black and white educators in 1943.

The storming of the school board meeting was not a one-off event. Rather, the militant spirit and interracial solidarity of the 1937 action catalyzed unionization efforts and opened new lines of communication between the segregated associations.

The action took place amidst swelling interracial labor organizing in the region, particularly amongst farmers, sharecroppers, and longshoremen, whose ties and affiliations with the teachers were growing in the months leading up to the action.

The teachers scaled the five stories up the fire escape and, with assistance from a janitor, slipped in through a window, and then dramatically delivered their demand. The next day, the board announced that all teachers would receive the raise.

Upon arriving at the school administration building on the day of the board meeting, teachers were blocked from entry. So all 14 teachers “marched outside [and] marched up a fire escape to the fifth floor.”

A mass meeting held at the Central Congregational Church sparked a petition with hundreds of signatures demanding a raise for all educators. Teachers from NOTA representing Black teachers and NOPSTA representing white teachers jointly targeted the August board meeting to deliver their demand.

“When this [notice of white teacher raises] came out in the newspaper,” said teacher organizer Veronica Hill, “everybody rose up.”

In 1937, a group of 14 New Orleans teachers descended upon a school board meeting by way of a fire escape. Two weeks prior, the district had announced that after three rounds of pay cuts, pay would be restored for white teachers only.

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From our third issue: a remarkable document that issues a serious challenge to the emerging orthodoxies of October, which now tend to "dissolve the revolutionary creativity of these workers into a broader story of European social democracy"

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They Led a Charge: New Orleans Teacher Organizing During the Depression | Long-Haul Mag SUMMER 2025 ISSUE 03

Here, as elsewhere, militant action was a catalyst for long term organizing. As one teacher reflected: “One of the things I’ll always remember was the board [meeting action] . . . the white and the Black teachers coming together . . . [We] were adamant.”

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Riley Collins recounts the history of interracial organizing in New Orleans during the great depression–when dramatic direct action “seeded a legacy of collaboration among white and Black teacher unionists acting ‘in treason to local mores’ of racial hierarchy.”

The Village on the Highway | Long-Haul Mag SUMMER 2025 ISSUE 03

Oh I see @long-haul-mag.bsky.social are here on Bsky. Here’s another great piece of writing, on small farmers’ struggles in northern India in the new issue: longhaulmag.com/village-on-t...

Thanks to @danielmang.bsky.social for introducing me to Long Haul magazine. In the first issue, here’s a fantastic article about migrant labour in southern Jordan longhaulmag.com/stone-carrie...

To understand the uprising and crisis in Indonesia, here is our selection of articles from ALR: labourreview.org/indonesias-u...

The wildcat strike was "an exceptional time of solidarity and unionism – a flicker of hope in a country torn by war, apathy, and geopolitical alarmism."

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I've only read the first article but it was SO good, really recommend

Issue 3 is now online! longhaulmag.com

"a vital insight of syndicalists is that a union is a complex political activity rather than a neutral vehicle or instrument"

Thankful for this thoughtful engagement from @nhold.bsky.social!

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Striking to Win in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 2023 Grad Strike at the University of Michigan | Long-Haul Mag STRIKING TO WIN IN HIGHER ED: Lessons from the 2023 Grad Strike at the University of Michigan

New dispatch! The 2023 grad strike at the University of Michigan was a signal struggle in the recent upsurge of militancy in higher education, from which organizers in the sector stand to learn as they confront new and forbidding challenges: longhaulmag.com/2025/08/15/s...

Gonna definitely put some time in with the latest issue of @long-haul-mag.bsky.social! And probably try to keep clawing my way through ground rent in volume 3 (im drowning someone help me,) reading about the Greensboro Massacre, and uh taking refuge in fiction about... fighting fascists?

At Least Three Layers Down | Long-Haul Mag This piece is a distillation of a longer conversation with Liam Cain, whose eclectic itinerary includes various construction jobs on pipelines and in oil refineries and wildland firefighting. Liam’s a...

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About Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing about culture and organization on and off the shop floor, past and present, in and outside of unions.Dylan Davis and Jane Komori are managing edi…

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The wildcat strike was "an exceptional time of solidarity and unionism – a flicker of hope in a country torn by war, apathy, and geopolitical alarmism."

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