This article is excerpted from the Labor Notes book Secrets of a Successful Organizer, available for $15 at labornotes.org/secrets. Steel production in…
he flaws in laborās electoral strategy have never been more glaring
Twin Cities janitors were headed for a second strike in as many months when they reached an agreement March 7. A thousand…
The nation’s union-haters have a juicy new target, Detroit’s public employees, ever since the city became the largest in history to file…
In a surprise move, the 40,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union announced its disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO yesterday. The news comes just…
The sight of tens of thousands of striking teachers and their allies marching through the streets of Chicago last fall had a…
It’s election season, and the Democrat who’s cold-shouldered your union since the last campaign is running again. But instead of a reckoning…
Against a backdrop of looming summer storms, locked out utility workers are returning to work after a four-week standoff with Consolidated Edison,…
The last four years have been enough to turn even the most true-blue union activist just plain blue. We are facing some…
New York nurses upended the 100-year power imbalance between bedside nurses and nurse managers yesterday, voting to bar supervisors from elected office…
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