“The GM CEO, she got 36 percent in raises since our last contract, making $26 million,” one worker says. “Like Fain said, they’re price-gouging the American public for billions of profits. They don’t earn that, sitting around eating bonbons.”
Across the political spectrum, Americans whitewash the working class and exclude labor struggle from black history. Blair LM Kelley’s Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class is a necessary corrective — and provides lessons for struggle today
Mergers temporarily strengthen labor’s bargaining chip. But in the long run, anti-monopoly experts say, corporate power crushes workers and consumers.
Having an analytical framework to understand the key relationships that define the social conditions and political battles we face can guide us in formulating our strategy and tactics on every level—from local to global.
With workers and unions beginning to reconsider the potentialities and pitfalls of boycotts, it makes sense to take a look back at the famous boycott campaigns led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) from 1965 through 1975 to demand agricultural compani
3rd in three-part posting on Steelworkers Fightback reform movement in the 1970s. Brown documents issues and personalities that drove the movement of relevance today in understanding and appreciating reform movements underway today.
The union’s new leadership used effective messaging and rank-and-file organization to win significant gains.
The GOP’s off-the-wall positions should make it easy for the Dems to defeat the out-of-touch Republicans. But not when the party is dialing for the same corporate campaign cash as the GOP.
What is the most viable path to a working-class party in the United States? How to Implode a Two-Party System from Within.
From rust belt assembly lines to Amazon warehouses, former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodriguez reminds us that labor has always been at the center of the American story.
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