Journalism remains a dangerous trade in 2021
The decline of unions and the difficulties that unions face in 2021 are not simply a result of some sort of inexorable forces, which is often how globalization and technological change are presented.
The quiet drama 'Nomadland' makes a lot of sense for this strange Oscars year.
In contrast to the stereotype of the union worker as a white man in a hard hat, today’s labor movement skews black, brown and female.
Worker centers in general serve as a clearinghouse for workers’ needs when forming a union is all but impossible. Even in anti-union terrains, the centers have found ways to change public and corporate policies.
Amazon and the other major employers today will not be organized until the left wing does the hard, thankless, exhausting organizing work of patiently building real union structures and real organizational muscle.
What did the campaign look like from the inside? Labor Notes writer Luis Feliz Leon spoke on April 13 with Joshua Brewer, the campaign’s lead organizer, from RWDSU’s Mid-South Council.
Labor Notes writer Luis Feliz Leon spoke on April 13 with Joshua Brewer, the BAmazon campaign’s lead organizer, from RWDSU’s Mid-South Council.
Drives to organize steelworkers and autoworkers took decades but ultimately succeeded.
Unions need labor law reform through the PRO Act. But even if that bill remains off the table in the near future, Joe Biden can use executive orders immediately to roll back corporate union-busting like Amazon carried out in Bessemer, Alabama.
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