Bay Area IWW Shops
You may have already been to an IWW shop and not even known it! Whether it is the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, or the radical Moe's Books just south of the UC. Maybe you been out to Urban Ore to look for some salvaged treasure, or stopped by any number of Peet's coffees for a dark roast coffee. If you live Berkeley, your residential recycling is even picked up by a wobbly!
The Bay Area is scattered with fellow workers in the IWW, whether they are a new member just starting to organize their workplace, or a longtime member who has been working at their union shop for decades. Below is an assortment of workplaces filled with members of the IWW who continue to fighting worker power.
The Bay Area general membership branch (GMB) of the IWW was founded by a merger in 1971 of the SF Branch G.R.U. (General Recruiting Union) founded July 1st 1927, and the Berkeley Branch G.R.U. founded Sept. 10th 1961. There were no GMB branches prior to 1969.
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