https://znetwork.org/author/janeslaughter/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:20:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/janeslaughter/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mass-politics-as-class-struggle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mass-politics-as-class-struggle/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291517 “Can We Meet the Moment?” The question posed by Tom Goodkind in his analysis of the 2025 DSA Convention spurred debate and discussion on the left. To sharpen our collective thinking, The New Liberator is publishing a series of responses, rejoinders, and hot takes. Here, Jane Slaughter and Connor Wright weigh in. We agree with much of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mass-politics-as-class-struggle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/take-it-from-turkish-workers-you-dont-want-a-strongman/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/take-it-from-turkish-workers-you-dont-want-a-strongman/#respond Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:46:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284698 What has happened to workers in Turkey since the country voted to concentrate power in one man, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, should be a warning flashing red to workers elsewhere. “When democracy shrinks, it hurts workers—when one man has all the power,” said Arzu Çerkezoğlu, president of Turkey’s Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DISK). “Parliament [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/take-it-from-turkish-workers-you-dont-want-a-strongman/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uaw-reformers-close-caucus-launch-new-organization/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uaw-reformers-close-caucus-launch-new-organization/#respond Sat, 03 May 2025 15:50:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283307 Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting April 27. “It was a heartbreaking decision to come to,” said UAWD founder and chair Scott Houldieson, a 36-year electrician at Ford. “UAWD had become a caucus that is ‘resolutionary,’ and focused more [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uaw-reformers-close-caucus-launch-new-organization/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-workers-lead/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-workers-lead/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:39:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281207 Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we need more of it; listen up, union leaders, Blanc says: you can afford it. If Blanc goes a bit overboard on his points occasionally, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-workers-lead/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-wont-win-until-were-troublemakers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-wont-win-until-were-troublemakers/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:26:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275434 Unions weren’t strong enough, in numbers or in influence with their members, to make a difference in this election. One sample showed union households at only 54 percent for Kamala Harris vs. 43 percent for the billionaire, with non-union households at 51 percent Trump, 47 percent Harris. If union voters had listened to their officers, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-wont-win-until-were-troublemakers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-its-like-voting-union-inside-alabama-mercedes-plant/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-its-like-voting-union-inside-alabama-mercedes-plant/#respond Thu, 16 May 2024 17:36:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266483 In the election on whether to join the United Auto Workers, being held over five days this week at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, the union negotiated rules to try to minimize management influence. The vote is taking place inside the plant. Workers are allowed to vote on company time, at designated intervals. A [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-its-like-voting-union-inside-alabama-mercedes-plant/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-they-did-it-labor-journalist-jane-slaughter-on-uaws-life-changing-deal-with-big-3-automakers-2/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-they-did-it-labor-journalist-jane-slaughter-on-uaws-life-changing-deal-with-big-3-automakers-2/#respond Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:50:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1256895 Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. In a major victory, the United Auto Workers announced Monday they reached a tentative agreement with General Motors, following deals with Ford and Stellantis last week. This brings an end [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-they-did-it-labor-journalist-jane-slaughter-on-uaws-life-changing-deal-with-big-3-automakers-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-thank-a-union-reform-caucus-for-the-militant-uaw-strike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-thank-a-union-reform-caucus-for-the-militant-uaw-strike/#respond Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:47:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1254866 What can we learn from the new militancy in the United Auto Workers (UAW)? One lesson is that member power does not have to start from a supermajority; that’s unlikely. UAW members are on strike today, with inspiring levels of rank-and-file energy, because four years ago a small group of activists founded a new reform caucus. 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