The Big Three fell like a house of cards. The UAW’s historic Stand-Up strike ended — for now, at least. After 44 days on the picket line, the…
Barry Eidlin
On Friday, September 22, United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain announced that the union would be expanding its “stand-up strike” against…
At noon on July 25, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) issued a press release announcing that the union had reached a…
On March 24, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation repealing a 2012 law that made Michigan a “right-to-work” (RTW) state — the first time since…
On December 2, President Joe Biden signed legislation he had requested to block an impending strike of 115,000 railroad workers, and impose the terms…
Stakes are high in the United Auto Workers (UAW), with two polar-opposite visions of unionism up for leadership. On Monday, ballots were…
With the victory of a coalition of reformers in the Teamsters, the union has enormous potential to organize Amazon, rebuild strength at shop floors throughout North America, and perhaps even go on strike against UPS
Unions are under unprecedented attack under Trump. But labor can rebuild itself — if it chooses to
Democrats were wrong to think that shifting demographics alone would hand them victory. What then determines whether workers respond to economic grievances with nativism or solidarity? In a word, organization
Why it matters that the United States has no labor party
