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Carter Presidency Was a Turning Point for Labor

Don McIntosh Northwest Labor Press
Carter's work post-presidency brokering peace and monitoring overseas elections for fairness earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. But when he occupied the White House, Carter was a disappointment to American working people and their labor movement.

What Is Salting?

Kim Kelly Teen Vogue
A new generation of union activists is embracing all sorts of organizing strategies, including one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.

How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism.

Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us

Sarah Milov, Katherine Turk Jacobin
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.

Politically Corrupt and Morally Bankrupt

Helen Mercer Morning Star
Cold War anti-communism directly contributed to US labor’s decline in the latter half of the 20th century. That is a betrayal, at home and abroad, of the interests of the working class they were elected to represent.

The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

Rogé Karma The Atlantic
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?