Summary

The practice of organising workers to win improvements through collective action — strikes, contract campaigns, sectoral bargaining, transnational solidarity.

Body

Labour organising combines relational organising (one-to-ones, mapping the workplace), structural analysis (workplace power, leverage points), and tactical escalation (petitions → work-to-rule → slowdowns → strikes). The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung publishes German-language material on strike strategy and worker organising, including the legal framework around wildcat strikes, warning strikes, and unlimited strikes [source: rosa-luxemburg]. ReAct Transnational’s methodology covers cross-border worker organising against multinational employers — workers in multiple countries coordinating pressure on the same corporate parent, using the supply chain as leverage [source: react-transnational]. The Commons Library hosts modules on labour-side campaigns, including the classic “three parts of a contract campaign” framework and the structural-power analysis (mapping which workers have the most leverage in a given dispute) [source: commons-library]. A worker-organising campaign differs from a citizen campaign in two key ways: (1) the target is also the employer — direct economic dependency shapes tactics and risk; (2) the labour-relations legal regime (works councils, sectoral bargaining, statutory strike rules) constrains what’s possible.

Use it for

Designing a contract campaign; planning a strike; mapping a workplace; coordinating transnational solidarity.

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Sources & verification

• sources/rosa-luxemburg — grounding: secondary — RAW (6048 chars)
• sources/react-transnational — grounding: secondary — RAW (3818 chars)
• sources/commons-library — grounding: secondary — RAW (5257 chars)

Verified 2026-06-23 by llm-qc.