A timeline of the Industrial Workers of the World from its formation in 1905 to the present day.
1900s
- 1905: The IWW is founded at a socialist congress in Chicago, USA by 200 anarchist, socialist and communist activists. Big Bill Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.
- 1906: IWW affiliated miners with the WFM work together to strike in Goldfield, Nevada, USA over wages, resulting in a conflict between the unions and US soldiers.
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
- 1995: San Francisco and Santa Cruz IWW members establish the iww.org server and website. The IWW is only the second labor union in the world (the first was an Israeli teacher's union local) with a website and the first international union to have one.[1]
- 1997: 3,240 gold miners in Sierra Leone work with the IWW, but the civil war forced many to flee to neighbouring Guinea, where plans were made to organize metal workers, the current state of these workers is unknown.[2]
2000s
2010s
- 2014: The Incarcerated Workers' Organizing Committee (IWOC) is formed to fight US prison-industrial complex.
- 2015: The Iceland Regional Organizing Committee (IceROC) is the first branch of the IWW to form in Iceland and mainly focus on organizing sex workers for protection against repression by the police.[3]
- 2018: The IWOC organizes a second general strike across US prisons, demanding an end to prison slavery, massive expansion of prisoner rights and welfare, an end to racism in US prisons and the granting of voting rights to prisoners.
References
- ↑ IWW Chronology (1990 - 1995) - https://www.iww.org/about/chronology/10
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161224232718/http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/africa/sierra/sl_iww_update.html
- ↑ Sex Worker-Led Organisation formed in Iceland - https://www.nswp.org/news/sex-worker-led-organisation-formed-iceland