An organizer for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, he had made an unsuccessful run for 22nd Ward alderman in the same election that produced Chicago’s first Black mayor.
With Glacier, eight justices sabotaged the most powerful weapon unions have: the strike.
The Red Scare and the fall of the IWW. A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.
Undergraduate workers are winning collective bargaining rights, making student unions increasingly common. They’re driven by the pandemic, pro-union sentiment and each other.
A not-so-civil war continues
A number of moderate Democrats have remained silent on whether they support Julie Su’s nomination for labor secretary.
During the Great Depression, St Louis’s Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. Black workers, mostly women, worked harder and made less than their white counterparts. So they went on strike — and got their white coworkers to join them on the picket line.
Brandon Johnson’s mayoral victory is a first step toward transforming the deeply unequal city. If he’s going to undertake radical reform efforts in Chicago, Johnson needs protests and strikes to fend off the inevitable capitalist attacks.
Inspired by Brazil’s president, Americans on the left consider whether to match the international right with a movement of their own.
Michigan’s repeal of its “right-to-work” law could be a huge boon to labor — not because a flood of new members will instantly join unions, but because the entire country is hearing the message that the state will not tolerate flagrant union busting.
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