![Members of UAW 4811 join protesters at the University of California, Santa Cruz, campus on May 20, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/palworkers.jpg)
The Next Front in Palestine Solidarity: Worker Strikes The Next Front in Palestine Solidarity: Worker Strikes
The symbiotic relationship between universities and the military puts higher education workers in a position of significant structural power.
May 23, 2024 / Jonathan Rosenblum
![Pro-Palestine banners on a building with Starbucks logo in foreground](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/StarbuckslogoPalestineprotest.jpg)
How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks worker organizing produced a historic union breakthrough, and this victory came about in part because of solidarity with Palestine.
Mar 11, 2024 / Jonathan Rosenblum
![Shawn Fain, president of the United Automobile Workers, joins lawmakers at a press conference calling for a cease-fire in the Middle East outside of the Capitol on December 14, 2023.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/shawn-fain-portrait-getty.jpg)
Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Lay the Ground for a National Strike Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Lay the Ground for a National Strike
By having contracts with all the Big Three automakers expire on May Day, 2028, the UAW president also issued a challenge to the labor movement. Will his union be ready to meet it?...
Dec 28, 2023 / Jonathan Rosenblum
![Worker holds a UAW picket sign](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/uaw-picket.jpg)
The UAW’s “Stand Up Strike” Strategy Led to a Huge Win—and Not Just for Autoworkers The UAW’s “Stand Up Strike” Strategy Led to a Huge Win—and Not Just for Autoworkers
The question now is whether that victory provides a launchpad for rebuilding worker power in the auto industry and beyond. Or is just a blip in labor’s steady generational decline...
Nov 3, 2023 / Jonathan Rosenblum
![Kaiser Permanente workers on strike marching with signs on a picket line](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kaiser-strike-getty.jpg)
What’s Powering the Healthcare Worker Strike Wave? What’s Powering the Healthcare Worker Strike Wave?
Nurses and others have won victories on the picket line they couldn’t achieve at the ballot box.
Nov 1, 2023 / Jonathan Rosenblum
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There Is No Future for a Labor Movement That Fails to Organize at Amazon There Is No Future for a Labor Movement That Fails to Organize at Amazon
In the 20th century, organizing basic industries like coal, steel, and manufacturing automobiles was key to reviving the labor movement. Today, Amazon workers occupy the same strat...
Apr 24, 2023 / Jonathan Rosenblum
![AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler speaks at the American Federation of Teachers convention](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/liz_shuler_img-1.jpg)
Why Is This Union Leader Schmoozing With the Enemy? Why Is This Union Leader Schmoozing With the Enemy?
Liz Shuler, the head of the AFL-CIO, thinks it’s OK to open a conference alongside the would-be architects of labor’s destruction.
Jul 20, 2022 / Jonathan Rosenblum
![Kshama Sawant: “We Won Because We Did Not Back Down”](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-649869004.jpg)
Kshama Sawant: “We Won Because We Did Not Back Down” Kshama Sawant: “We Won Because We Did Not Back Down”
Big business attempted to recall Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, but the socialist fought back aggressively—and that made all the difference.
Dec 16, 2021 / Jonathan Rosenblum
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Big Business Goes Up Against Democracy in Seattle Big Business Goes Up Against Democracy in Seattle
Local corporate interests are trying to recall elected City Council member Kshama Sawant.
Feb 9, 2021 / Jonathan Rosenblum