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Community organizer Fred Ross Sr was a key figure in progressive activism during the 20th century. He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer methodical tactics that transformed American orga

The outcome of the election will ultimately hinge on the 41 challenged ballots. The union called those ballots “illegitimate,” and called on Ford to “drop their anti-democratic effort to undermine the outcome of the election.”

“... organizing is the practice of identifying a future that you would like to have for yourself, for a community, for a global situation, and beginning the process of building an alliance with others towards that future.”

The laborers’ union in Hollywood is backing the push, which will be watched closely by early-career workers on other scripted shows.

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.