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The Real Issue in the UAW Strike

Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic
Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from well-paying jobs.

The Black Working Class Can No Longer Be Ignored

Akil Vicks Jacobin
Across the political spectrum, Americans whitewash the working class and exclude labor struggle from black history. Blair LM Kelley’s Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class is a necessary corrective — and provides lessons for struggle today

American Steel’s Succession

Luke Goldstein, Jarod Facundo The American Prospect
Mergers temporarily strengthen labor’s bargaining chip. But in the long run, anti-monopoly experts say, corporate power crushes workers and consumers.

Can Boycotts Help Workers Win?

Stephen Lerner and Eric Blanc Labor Politics
With workers and unions beginning to reconsider the potentialities and pitfalls of boycotts, it makes sense to take a look back at the famous boycott campaigns led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) from 1965 through 1975 to demand agricultural compani
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