The negotiable issues vary by state, but contracts could potentially limit class size, lock in wage scales and health benefits, limit standardized tests, define the evaluation and tenure process, and establish protections against arbitrary discipline

“The people down here are hard working and we don’t quit. You push us back two steps and we will fight back and take four. We won’t go away. We won’t give up”

A small victory at Volkswagen is likely to be stripped from the union by the D.C. Circuit Court and Trump-stacked National Labor Relations Board.

Can We Organize the South?

By all accounts, organizing committee members were too intimidated even to speak up during Nissan’s captive-audience meetings

The union defeat at a South Carolina Boeing plant was devastating, but it wasn’t inevitable. Labor can still organize the South

How much stronger would our unions be if they didn’t rely so heavily on staffers with little or no experience in their industries? What if more organizing was done by the members themselves?

What pushed tea factory workers to their boiling point? In August the workers who supply Lipton’s entire North American market voted 108-79…

Tennessee’s infamous anti-union union is fading away for lack of members. Will Volkswagen’s rationale for keeping out a real union crumble with it?

The Future Fighters are building a bridge between their union’s struggle for economic justice and their community’s struggle for racial justice