The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) started about six years ago at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to help nonunion…
In 2022, a group of Amazon workers stunned the world by winning a union election at the huge JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New…
Review ofĀ Labor Power and StrategyĀ by John Womack Jr, edited by Peter Olney and Glenn PeruÅ”ek (PM Press, January 2023) The question about…
Win a union election, and itās a long road to a signed contract. Lose a union election, and workers may think the…
This new memoir by a union organizer recounts dramatic organizing campaigns with laundry workers and offers thoughts on building worker solidarity and power
The wealth workers should have received, had wages kept up with productivity, was instead given to shareholders
Book Review, Tell the Bosses Weāre Coming: A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century, by Shaun Richman
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is training workers and helping them organize. Can this be a successful model for building worker power?
The A-Team was a hit show among my friends when it first aired in 1983. Growing up in a union family, one episode that stood out for me was āLabor Pains,ā when the A-Team helped farmworkers organize a union
A reflection on Participatory Budgeting in New York
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