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Josh Eidelson | The Nation

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.

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At its LA convention, organized labor vowed to reinvigorate organizing and strengthen progressive alliances. And not a moment too soon.

Taking inspiration from small strikes and actions over the past few years, OUR Walmart activists struck a note of dissent at the corporation’s annual party.

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.

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Organizers say management retaliated against strikers by locking them out of their homes.
Alleging unpaid wages and repeated retaliation, workers are coming out about immigrant injustice. 
The Communications Workers of America says that the ruling overturning Obama’s nominations emboldened employers—like the one...
Janitors say they’re prepared to walk off the job to protest unsafe conditions and illegal retaliation.
Labor welcomed the proposal, but what it means for tipped workers remains unclear.
Workers are protesting a new round of alleged intimidation tactics.
The agreement is designed to resolve Walmart’s allegations that workers’ Black Friday protests were illegal.
Target doesn’t deny that its contractors lock all the doors on the graveyard shift.
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