Most of the city unions endorsed the former governor, but a few believed in Mamdani. “It means that for the first time our members will really have a mayor who supports workers,” said Brandon Mancilla, Director of UAW Region 9A.
Harry Braverman’s arguments in his classic book Labor and Monopoly Capital presciently forecasted much of our present labor regime — and can help us move beyond it.
The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.
The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.
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