Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on labor including strikes, trade unions, workers’ rights, the gig economy, corporations and their opposition to workers’ rights, democractic workplaces and co-operatives, low incomes and the fight for better wages.
Ā In recent weeks, Germany has experienced a targeted attack by Germanyās powerful employers and the ultra-conservative and super-neoliberal government on one of…
Delegates to the United Auto Workers constitutional convention affirmed this week the aggressive direction the union has taken under President Shawn Fain,…
I just got back from Labor Notes. Itās the biggest conference of the grassroots, activist wing of the labor movement. Thousands of…
Strong support for Palestine and Palestinian workers was obvious at the recently concluded Labor Notes conference in Chicago. This bi-annual conference of…
Although the U.S. labor movement is sometimes depicted as hawkish and xenophobic, this characterization ignores its repeated attempts to grapple with the…
Quick! What do these exciting stories have in common? Educators bringing a new fighting spirit to their unions, from Los Angeles to…
Gardeners have a saying about newly planted perennials: āThey sleep, then creep, then leap.ā Last summer I pulled a lot of grass…
Original essay, Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund, by Leivick Hodes. Translation and commentary by Madeleine Cohen. INTRODUCTION Polish…
South Africans commemorated two significant events in May: Africa Day and Workersā Day. These moments normally evoke political reflection on the importance…
May Day, 2024, was a day of celebration for over 3,500 graduate student research and teaching assistants at the University of Pennsylvania…
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