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.
If the labor movement is to maintain and raise standards, then we must organize Amazonāone of the largest employers and most powerful…
For decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldnāt breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits…
Missouriās Republican lawmakers did exactly what their corporate patrons demanded in 2017 and rammed through legislation intended to prevent working people from…
After fifteen years cleaning rooms at the Fairfield by Marriott in Times Square, Ramona Garcia told the crowd, she earned just $22…
An excerpt from Running for Local Union Office: A Labor Notes Guide As your union election approaches, youāre going to have a lot…
Letter carriers and other people who work outdoors, especially in the upper Midwest and East, are experiencing hazardous levels of smoke from…
“As a fourteen-year-old boy getting my first job at the grocery store down the street I learned power relationship the first day…
In 1963, following George Wallaceās January speech demanding āSegregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,ā following the daily sit-ins and marches of the…
When the Office of the United States Trade Representative recently announced proposed tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 global…
A photograph of President Rodrigo Paz shaking hands with the executive secretary of the countryās principal trade union federation, the Bolivian Workersā…
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