The United Auto Workers (UAW) have now been on strike against the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis —…

(Image: SAG-AFTRA) This summer organized labor is on the offensive, with more unity and determination than we have seen in two generations.…

The strike by unions representing 48,000 academic workers at the University of California stands at a perilous crossroads. It is by far the largest…

Interview on Union Drives & Worker Revolts

Two major pieces of labor law legislation, both rooted in the concept of “sectoral bargaining,” are now being weighed in California and New York

We need an equally radical rededication to the concept of jobs with rights, and the rewards, monetary and moral, that are their just compensation

The brilliance of strikes and stoppages like the Day Without Immigrants and the Women’s Strike lies in organizers’ willingness to halt business as usual

For years, the world’s retail behemoth, Walmart, has seemed impervious to organizing attempts. Unions, specifically the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), have…

Nelson Lichtenstein teaches history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor…