Late last month, WoTC employees from the Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their intention to form a union, giving the company until May 1 to recognise it voluntarily. Neither Hasbro nor Wizards of the Coast did so.
A new study reveals that employers are spending big to maintain their dictatorial control over the workplace and crush unions. It’s a daunting amount of money, but it’s not impossible to overcome if workers can act with clarity, unity, and strategy.
‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement. Organizers unveil new drive to reverse decline in union membership as workers seek to combat growing wealth inequality
When it comes to reversing labor’s decline, union elections through the National Labor Relations Board have proven woefully insufficient. We need strategies for building workplace power that aren’t dependent on the NLRB.
The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today's unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor.
The stakes are high for U.S. labor. If we are going to remain relevant, unions must meet the challenge of building worker power at such a behemoth by making Amazon organizing a project of the entire labor movement.
Gotta Go Down and Join the Union (1976), Lynchings on Long Island (1946), Autherine Lucy Didn’t Know the Meaning of ‘Quit’ (1956), Baby Doc Throws In the Towel (1986), Tell the Crowd How You Really Feel! (1911), Free and Fearless (1941)
Workers are bombarded by false ideas about immigration and immigrants, that hold immigrants responsible for poverty, lost jobs and crime. To organize for political change, workers have to be convinced to support the rights of all working people.
The working class is in the fight of our lives. The unity between Trump and the billionaires exploiting us isn’t even hidden anymore. It will take a lot of organizing and ironclad working-class unity to match these forces, but the fight is on.
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