Editor’s Note: This article appears as the United Auto Workers (UAW) union prepares for its 39th UAW Constitutional Convention, scheduled for June 15-18,…
This engaging interview with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein sheds light on the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the…
The 3-to-1 victory of the United Automobile Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory last Friday has…
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
What was the mass strike and what would a successful one look like today?
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