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Stanley Aronowitz died this week at 88. He hated work, loved life, and brought his overflowing, exuberant approach to social problems to picket lines, classrooms, and vacation. A fighting left needs more people like him.

Liz Shuler will serve as the nation’s top union official until summer 2022, when the AFL-CIO’s 50-plus affiliates can gather for their annual convention to vote on a permanent successor.

For the labor movement, Rich Trumka’s death is a huge loss. His leadership qualities are a reminder of what the movement will so desperately need to move forward.

A strike that began at a Nabisco factory in Portland, Oregon last week has now spread across the country to Nabisco facilities in Aurora, Colorado, and Richmond, Virginia, where Oreos, Ritz crackers, Chips Ahoy, and other popular cookies.

While locked in a contentious battle over tech staffers unionizing, Times management’s counsel mistakenly sent its game plan to the union.

For 48 years the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union spoke out for educators and political causes - but the end was brutally swift.

Unit is among several new digital platforms that aim to ease the unionization process and empower workers to stand up to their bosses, but some union organizers have their doubts.

The undermining of workers’ strike power since PATCO's defeat disabled what was a vital instrument for building and maintaining social solidarity and for directing inevitable class tensions and social conflict toward democratic and egalitarian ends.

We have continued to practice organizing models that are not designed to organize the emerging monopolies and mass employment enterprises of these times.

Trumka's death deprives the labor movement of a central figure at a time when a resurgence of union activity has brought hope of undoing the defeats of the past decade and the decline of union membership, particularly in the private sector.