In preparing to strike, United Teachers Los Angeles learned how to build broad backing for common-good goals and prepare for nonviolent action to achieve them — lessons that can be used in the fight against rising authoritarianism.
How the 1937 Oshawa GM strike and radical industrial unionism reshaped labour—and why its lessons matter today
A better world’s in birth
In 1970, US postal workers won collective bargaining rights with an illegal strike. If lawsuits to stop Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce fail, that kind of militancy may be the only way for federal workers to retain their own union rights.
Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.
Rioters in Harlem Win Concessions (1935), A Big Win for White-Collar Strikers (2000), A Century of Classroom Censorship (1925), Witch-Hunt Targets Get a Very Belated Apology (1980), The Long Road from Selma (1965)
Strike threat looms.
Judge says coffee giant has no standing in appeal of NLRB finding that it fired two workers for trying to unionize
The president of Canada’s largest labour organization slammed the government for its “misuse” of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code.
In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.
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