The federal monitor charged with rooting out āfraud, corruption, illegal behavior, dishonesty, and unethical practicesā in the Auto Workers union issued a report today…
Delegates to the United Auto Workers constitutional convention affirmed this week the aggressive direction the union has taken under President Shawn Fain,…
In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls…
āCan We Meet the Moment?ā The question posed by Tom Goodkind in his analysis of the 2025 DSA Convention spurred debate and…
What has happened to workers in Turkey since the country voted to concentrate power in one man, President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan, should…
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting…
Eric Blancās argument inĀ We Are the UnionĀ is that only āworker-to-workerā organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough…
Unions werenāt strong enough, in numbers or in influence with their members, to make a difference in this election. One sample showed…
A year after the United Auto Workersā Stand-Up Strike, the union caucus that helped make it possible is setting out to transform…
A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union.…
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