Under Siege, and Showing its Age
Over 100 staff of three retail stores becomes first union of their kind in the state.
Organizing logistics behemoths like Amazon and Walmart will require the labor movement to figure out how to disrupt the flow of goods across the supply chain rather than simply organizing individual workplaces — and that requires a major rethinking
Is the purpose of organizing to increase union membership, or is it to rebuild a working-class movement that can effectively make life better for the vast majority of working people?
Days after SINTTIA filed to represent workers on April 21, a second union, Carlos Leone, began collecting signatures, in what appears to be an effort to ward off a legitimate union at the facility.
ICE is reading from an old textbook
The “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.
Worker-led and initiated organizing is certainly positive, as labor writer Eric Blanc points, but this emphasis is one piece of a much larger analytical framework for success in organizing.
Organizing Amazon workers is both an existential challenge and an opportunity for labor. But the company’s cash advantages and operational flexibility mean that traditional union tactics won’t be enough. We need strategies that combine disruption and
The largest NLRB union election win in February was at the primary care group Optum Care, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare. The vertical integration of health care has brought frustrating consequences for health workers, who are now organizing
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