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For months, 140,000 union railroad workers have been stuck at an impasse with their employers, who are united under the banner of…
We really, really need unions that are willing to fight the bosses rather than cozy up to them
In many ways, the weakness of the labor movement is the weakness of its left wing
A return to failed mainstream Democratic Party labor policies will not revive unions. We need aĀ labor revolution
The West Virginia teacher strike represents a return to public worker unionism’s radical roots
Two thousand workers are now on strike at a Wisconsin plant. Itās the kind of fight labor must win if it has any chance at reviving
Politicians want to turn the clock back 50 years by restricting the bargaining rights of millions of public workers. Unions would do well to look back, too, to the great public employee strike upsurge of the 1960s
Many, if not most, in the labor movement were deeply disappointed with the results of the Wisconsin uprising, from which the anti-labor…