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November 22, 2022
Labor’s Winning Weapon
Two Canadian unions show why the supermajority strike is the key to worker power.
Jane McAlevey
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November 7, 2022
The Obscured and Forgotten History of Black Communist Women
A new anthology edited by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean highlights the legacy and enduring relevance of Black communist women’s political activism in the early 20th century.
Morgan Forde
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November 4, 2022
Black Friday: A Good Day to “Make Amazon Pay”
And “peak season” is the right time for coordinated actions.
Rand Wilson and Peter Olney
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October 19, 2022
Amid Inflation and Corporate Windfalls, French Workers Are Rising Up
The increasing cost of living and the government’s heavy-handed response to a strike at oil refineries is pushing people into the streets, and the discontent isn’t going away.
Cole Stangler
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September 22, 2022
“You Strike So You Don’t Quit”: Across the Country, Nurses Are Fighting Overwork
Massive nurses’ strikes in Minnesota, Michigan, and New York are putting the crisis of understaffing and unsafe work loads front and center.
Bryce Covert
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September 8, 2022
Therapists in California and Hawaii Are Striking for Mental Health Care
The strike is the latest example of social justice unionism in the era of corporate health care.
Dana Simon
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September 6, 2022
Meet Liz Truss, Britain’s New Conservative Prime Minister
With the Labour Party tacking toward the center, the role of actually opposing this new Thatcher wannabe has fallen on an increasingly militant, confident, articulate, and strategic union movement.
Gary Younge
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July 20, 2022
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.
Jonathan Rosenblum
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July 13, 2022
Unions Protect Democracy. How Do We Protect Unions?
20 global labor leaders weigh in on the myriad ways the right is threatening organizing efforts.
Karen Nussbaum
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July 5, 2022
The Care Workers of Rural India Are Ready to Strike
More than a million Accredited Social Health Activists, all of whom are female, were on the front lines of rural India’s Covid response. Now they are fighting for higher pay and better working conditions.
Sanket Jain