Labor
Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on labor including strikes, trade unions, workers’ rights, the gig economy, corporations and their opposition to workers’ rights, democractic workplaces and co-operatives, low incomes and the fight for better wages.
The coming year could keep the strikes rolling through steel mills, state offices, telephone lines, axle plants, baseball diamonds, and hospitals from…
Recently I did some training with a group of newly elected officers and business agents. We used their International’s steward training manual,…
Workers in Yangon’s industrial zones are enduring severe, long-term economic losses driven by a stark disparity between basic salaries and the actual…
The tulip bubble is the most famous financial bubble in history, but as historical examples go it is also, in one crucial…
Even with a couple of months’ distance, Zohran Mamdani’s election still feels almost unreal, like a dispatch from an alternate universe. But…
What is commonly known as the labor market remains an inevitable feature of an economic system that converts everything into a commodity.…
Translated article from the Swedish publication Magasinet Konkret. Organizing is – or should be – the core business of every labor union.…
When labor activist Brandon Johnson upset Paul Vallas in Chicago’s 2023 runoff mayoral election, the Left had good cause for optimism. One…
Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the…
Paul Wines helped to kick in the door of the warehouse and heard a sound like a freight train crashing through town.…
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