By having contracts with all the Big Three automakers expire on May Day, 2028, the UAW president also issued a challenge to the labor movement. Will his union be ready to meet it?
The new book Practical Radicals takes inspiration from successful social movements to identify tactics that pay off
Modest goals won’t get us where we need to go. We need to think big. The labor movement needs, before anything, genuine ambition for a new America...We need labor leaders who see their jobs as climbing mountains no matter how high they are.
Recent union contract gains against a backdrop of decades of union decline, worsening wealth inequality and broken labor laws.
For the US there is much to learn from the Chilean experience about relationships between left government, movements, and popular protagonism and the importance of political clarity, socialist strategy and organization.
The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.
Theory, history and strategic thinking— ‘Take it easy, but take it’
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.
A split over the stewardship of the union’s high-profile president, Christian Smalls, has led a rival faction to file a lawsuit seeking an election.
Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.
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