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Union Power Can Change Campus Protests Forever
Strikes are different from protests. Though protesters frequently say that they are making “demands,” it is more accurate to say they are making requests. Protests rely on persuasion. Their persuasion...
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The Revitalization of German Trade Unions
German trade unions are on an upward trajectory. This year’s May Day celebrations showed as much as they were well-attended throughout Germany. German unionists also acknowledged seventy years of...
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Unions Support Student Protestors Against Campus Administrators and Police
As campus protests—and violent police repression—continue to roll across the country, some unions are getting involved. More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the...
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What It’s Like Voting Union Inside Alabama Mercedes Plant
In the election on whether to join the United Auto Workers, being held over five days this week at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, the union negotiated rules to try to minimize management...
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‘Tick Tock’: Daimler Truck Workers Use Strike Threat to Win Big
North Carolina heavy truck and school bus manufacturing workers won 25 percent pay increases and ended wage tiers after an energetic contract campaign and strike threat against Daimler Truck. The...
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Why Corporations Choose Lawlessness to Fight Unions
Workers in Towson, Maryland, have earned the distinction of becoming the first Apple retail workers in the nation to vote to strike over failed union negotiations with their employer. The approximately...
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How Solidarity Triumphs Over Corporate Greed
Management at Amfuel tried to bully Jo Tucker and her 200 co-workers—most of them Black women, a number of them single moms—into accepting dozens of unnecessary concessions in a new contract. For four...
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Alabama Mercedes Workers Lose First Union Election, Vow to Fight On
A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union. In addition to anti-union videos and mailings,...
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US Undergrads Are Getting an Extracurricular Crash Course in Labor Organizing
When Grinnell College wanted to begin compensating community advisors (CA), who work to provide students living in residence halls with programming and support for personal and academic issues, on an...
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How Union Reformers Passed the PRO Act in Vermont
If you’re a fan of unions, there’s been a lot to get excited about lately. Strikes and militancy are up, public support for labor is peaking, and the prospects for new organizing are better than...
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Auto Workers’ Loss at Mercedes-Benz Slows the UAW Organizing Drive, but Won’t...
Mercedes-Benz succeeded in defeating the United Auto Workers (UAW) in an election held in the company’s plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but UAW President Shawn Fain sees the defeat as a temporary setback...
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Donald Trump’s Assault on the Wages of American Workers
Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of...
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Retired New York City Teachers Rise and Run
They’ve really stepped in it. The incumbent Unity Caucus that runs the huge teachers union in New York City is facing a challenge from the Retiree Advocate slate who hope to take leadership of the...
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US Labor Today and the Way Forward
The labor movement in the United States used to be respected and looked to for leadership; people cared about what positions labor took, watched when they mobilized, noticed the causes they supported....
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How US Labor Law Constrains Unions’ Political Activity
A growing number of unions have taken a stand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet US labor law throws up major obstacles to unions using their leverage to press political demands, including the...
View ArticleTo Win Big, Labor Has to Lose More
There’s no sugarcoating it: Mercedes workers’ loss last week was a punch in the gut. Hopefully we can soon get some sober assessments from worker leaders and staff organizers about what — if anything —...
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Iron Range Childcare Worker on Organizing for Better Care for Children
The mines of the Mesabi Iron Range gleam red under the light covering of snow that remains after a historically warm winter in northern Minnesota. Hibbing, a mining town of around 16 thousand people,...
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