A new labor nonprofit called Union Now is trying to help workers weather firings, delays, and first-contract battles. We could’ve used their help in our Starbucks campaigns.
UAW recent organizing breakthroughs in auto manufacturing in the South, major nationwide strikes, and decisive contract successes raise questions about what lessons we can and can’t draw from the last few years’ record of wins and losses.
‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement. Organizers unveil new drive to reverse decline in union membership as workers seek to combat growing wealth inequality
An organizer looks at a mass protest and sees something completely different than the cynic does. Scofing at people showed up and did the work to turn out millions while offering no alternative is just inaction with an alibi.
The labor movement is reviving the practice of “salting” to bring unions to huge new industries.
I never found the cure to cancer as a geneticist. But 30 years of organizing have led me to understand the work needed to stop this horrible disease — dismantling the oppression, corporate greed, environmental destruction destroying our communities.
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to ratify their first union contract last week, securing pay bumps, job protections and a rare win for the United Auto Workers union in the South.
No matter how you slice the demographics, aside from Democratic and Republican Party operatives, a new working-class political party independent of the Democrats and Republicans is really popular.
Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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