<p><img vspace="3" hspace="3" align="right" alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/86356.jpg" />By <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/community/profile/78235">Adam Kader</a>, <em>In These Times, </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11489/organizing_on_wobbly_ground_learning_from_solidarity_unionism_at_starb/">June 16, 2011</a>.</p>
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<p>The decline of unions does not mean the end of the labor movement. Indeed, the last few years have seen a proliferation of new kinds of worker organizations and workers' rights campaigns. Some of the most exciting of late have been conducted by community-based groups (rather than workplace-based unions), such as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and those part of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20080722202202555"><em>Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks</em></a>, a recent pamphlet published by PM Press, Daniel Gross and Staughton Lynd highlight an increasingly important feature of today&rsquo;s labor movement&mdash;nonunion workers using direct action strategies protected by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)&mdash;while examining the <a href="../../../../../../">Industrial Workers of the World</a>&rsquo;s (IWW)'s ongoing efforts to organize Starbucks.</p>
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