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.
The lack of affordability is the curse of the working class, whether its individual members are working or not. Politicians talk about…
First of all, I want to thank you all for being here and for giving me the opportunity to be part of…
Introduction and translations by Richard Fidler for Life on the Left. For a comprehensive account of the issues, outcomes and shifting political trends…
Employees at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, have expressed concern over what they describe as āobviousā and ābiasedā…
Faced with austerity measures, the dismantling of public education, precarious living conditions, authoritarianism, and ā particularly in Europe āopposition to rapid military…
Despite all the apocalyptic news, the European automotive industry might still have a future. But not by leaving the industry to those…
In our hyperpolitical age, when mass protests come and go without much clear sense of what was won or lost, the strategies…
Union strength or weakness is often seen only through the light of a strike or lockout. Phil Cohenās memoir, Maximum Leverage: From the…
In their mad rush for profit and power, the tech oligarchs have unleashed artificial intelligence (AI) into nearly every corner of life…
October 2026 marked a turning point for German unions in the car industry. With the years of boom for cars seemingly over,…
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