Solidarity among co-workers is your source of power against the employer. And one essential ingredient for solidarity is respect. In the workplace…

In many unions, ratification of a collective bargaining agreement can leave members alienated and angry. Sometimes members will be learning about the…

It seems that union organizing has become both necessary and cool. Can this surge be sustained—and what will it take?

Whatever form your purposeful action eventually takes, if it is grounded in relationships that sustain you, it will keep you on your feet for the many struggles still ahead

Complaining to “let off steam,” if you take no action to change the problem, demonstrates something that’s poles apart from organizing—powerlessness

An experiment in Ithaca, New York, over the last two years has shown surprising results in helping workers become organizers, with a method easy to adapt and reproduce anywhere

When there is no effective access to meaningful channels for change, workers resort naturally to the only power no one can steal from them—the power to withhold their labor

Stay steady, be patient, keep going in the direction of bottom-up, direct action unionism

Strikes are rare these days, and fewer still result in victories—so why was this one different?

More than 30 years since China opened up to foreign investment, wildcat strikes surge month after month. They are driven by workers…