Review of Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU edited by Louis Aguiar and Joseph McCartin (University of Illinois Press, 2023) and The…

Steve Early
In a recent conversation with an otherwise well-informed young labor activist, I made a passing reference to Change to Win, a national…
Work from home arrangements proliferated during the pandemic and became very popular among white-collar workers. They are now the subject of a…
Work from home arrangements that proliferated during the Covid pandemic and became very popular among white-collar workers are now the subject of…
When a labor organization doesn’t have direct election of its national officers, hasn’t had a contested convention vote for union president since…
When Sara Steffens was a young reporter from Oakland, she helped her co-workers at the Contra Costa Times form a new Newspaper Guild bargaining…
When the new House majority passed its grab bag of government spending cuts last month, setting up an on-going game of chicken…
When President Joe Biden braved Republican jeers and boos to deliver his State of the Union address in February, one of the few lines…
Even in the era of identity politics, one category of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe Glenton calls “veteranhood.” In the U.S.,…
Workers in the logistics industry often make headlines when their handling of goods is disrupted by pandemic conditions or labor conflicts. Thanks…