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Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, striking to gain recognition for their union.

Even if the movement isn’t rebounding quite yet, green shoots are abounding—and presidential candidates ignore it at their peril.

Staff demand wage increases and reversal of pandemic-era cutbacks that impose ‘painful’ working conditions

We need to rebuild the labor movement, and that means not going back to the kind of unions that existed in the postwar era. We need unions with a radical vision, unions that exert power in the workplace and society.

Every walkout, every outstretched hand, every word written or spoken in defense of workers' rights, is a victory—whether it results in immediate and obvious success or not.

The capitalist system doesn’t just drive wealth inequality—it is designed to exploit and undermine the working class and to protect the power and economic interests of the wealthy.

Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond.