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I understand the collective failure of the UMD GLU card campaign as a failure of vision, of the breadth of social life needed to sustain our union, and of the strategic flexibility required to navigate our difficult organizing landscape.

A year after the UAW's historic strike against the Big 3 Automakers, the union has tried to use the momentum to write its next success story in the South. However, it's getting pushback.

Workers at Ultium’s Spring Hill electric vehicle plant, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution of Korea, have unionized. It’s the latest case of the UAW’s Big Three strike bearing fruit.

A New Model for Worker-Led Organizing

Here's how designers can build a stronger labor movement.

Thanks in part to investments from the Inflation Reduction Act and tariffs on China, the US South is seeing a boom in electric-vehicle manufacturing. The industry’s expansion in the mostly nonunion region presents an urgent organizing challenge

Precarious immigration status creates an exploitable labor force, allowing bosses to drive down wages for everyone. Inside the labor case for open borders.

Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the first unionized company store in the country.

Unions are filing more petitions to hold elections with the NLRB and winning them at higher rates, under a Biden NLRB committed to enforcing labor law. However, recent Supreme Court decisions will hurt worker organizing, as would a Trump NLRB.