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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.

The Sacramento school district is pleading poverty in the face of demands for more student support and a pay raise to keep up with inflation. Teachers and school workers aren’t buying the district’s excuses and now they’re on strike to make change.

From a socialist perspective how should unions and social movements of the poor respond to the current crisis?

The 1911 factory blaze shocked the nation, spurred new regulations to protect factory workers and propelled women to labor leadership.

The new upsurge in labor media coverage is anchored in fresh awareness about class and its role in America today, a growing understanding that is stripped of the anti-Communism that shaped ideas about class for much of the twentieth century.