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Amazon Strike by the Numbers

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
Amazon workers participated in pickets or short strikes in December. The strikes were in limited locations but a real test of capacity for a growing movement.

Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me

Chris Townsend Jacobin
As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.

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.