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Nearly 2,900 of over 3,800 eligible voters at MIT turned up to vote this week, with 66% putting their support behind unionization. They will be affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE).

Labor leaders view this year’s elections – and 2024’s – with special urgency, as a goal-line stand to preserve America’s democracy.

‘We are all campus workers’: New coalition confronts crisis in higher ed with coordination and collaboration.

A post-Covid jobs recovery has strengthened workers’ hand – companies posting record profits don’t need government to slow the economy

Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it.

Despite heavy lobbying by the company, workers at the facility voted by a wide margin for a union. The win on Staten Island could herald a new era for labor unions in the United States.

Winning at Amazon — truly breaking its power over workers and working-class communities — would be a bellwether of the strength of our movement. It’s a challenge we must meet if we are to bring about the changes our society desperately needs.

Yesterday, Staffers at Condé Nast announced that they are forming a company-wide union with the NewsGuild of New York, covering more than five hundred staffers across a dozen titles.

Major League Baseball owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.

Worker organizing is on the upswing. Here are some principles for building capacity and bottom-up power—in your union drive and in the ongoing functioning of your union.