“A change in leadership only works if we also get members to step up and take on these fights. If the members aren’t activated and organized, then we have nothing.”

The pandemic and the economic crunch have provided new leverage, and new excuses, for employers to push their pre-existing agendas

“We knew there was nobody going to help us but us. It’s really a lesson that I’m happy to pass on to my kids and grandkids. You group together with other people of similar thought and you keep fighting. There’s just no other way.”

For those who have defeated unsafe reopenings, the next battle may be against mass layoffs, as in Rochester, New York, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

The good news is, the problem is mostly artificial—Congress created it with the stroke of a pen, and could fix it the same way. If it wanted to

The local community has rallied behind the miners. Since the mines closed, neighbors and friends have been donating to help families pay their utility bills. Now people are bringing food and water down to the railroad tracks.

The biggest UPS local in the Northeast is back in the hands of reformers. Teamsters in New York City’s Local 804 elected…

Bargaining between health care giant Kaiser Permanente and a new union alliance representing 38,000 of its employees has come down to the wire

The members calling for a no vote say that it falls short in just about every area it covers (or fails to cover)

To grow, unions need to come through to support bottom-up initiatives like these—and foster many more of them