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Josh Eidelson

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Josh Eidelson

Josh Eidelson

Josh Eidelson (josheidelson.com) is a Nation contributor and was a union organizer for five years. He covers labor for as a contributing writer at Salon and In These Times.

Articles

News and Features

Under the leadership of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Walmart Foundation used generous gifts to grease the way for store expansions.

American unions are in deep trouble. What’s the way out?

CEO Howard Schultz doesn’t like unions. But he’s happy to coerce his low-paid workers into joining a phony austerity campaign.

The new labor campaign against the retail giant faces daunting odds, and the stakes are high: most of us live in the Walmart economy.

Democratic candidates haven’t always had labor’s back—but Republicans are intent on ending collective bargaining altogether.

In the depressed former steel towns of western Pennsylvania, disillusionment with all politicians is deep. The AFL-CIO's labor affiliate is trying to change that.

Republicans have accomplished what Democrats and unions never could: they’ve made the National Labor Relations Board a household name.

As administrators declare there's no alternative to austerity and corporatization in higher ed, student Occupyers fight back.

Workers at a port in Washington State are reviving strike tactics that have become nearly extinct in American labor struggles—and they may just win.

Blogs

Wednesday’s coordinated worker delegations should represent the largest mobilization of OUR Walmart members since the Black Friday...
Apparel workers are demanding action from the retail giant following a deadly factory fire and a set of beatings and stabbings allegedly...
Working America is set to expand across the country—and directly enter the workplace.
The head of the National Domestic Workers Alliance discusses disappointments dealt by Democratic politicians, the challenges of sustaining...
As Congress considers immigration reform, workers plan a global day of action for June 6.
Workers won their jobs back with a three-week strike, but then got fired all over again.
Organizers say management retaliated against strikers by locking them out of their homes.