In our current public conversation about jobs, too often the media and the public point back to the era of the unionized factory job as the golden age. In one way, it was. The jobs paid well and had great benefits, won by unions after...
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The latest teacher strike wave is continuing, mostly notably in Chicago. Teachers in Dedham, Massachusetts just went on strike for 3 days and won most of their demands. I was.
On September 29, 1962, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced Operation Breadbasket, a boycott campaign against companies that refused to hire African-Americans. This was part of the larger civil rights.
The ambitious plans that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have no real chance of passing the Senate and even if they do, the Supreme Court will kill them. They are more long-term and aspirational than realistic for the next four years, which is fine except...
I was interviewed for a really great story at The American Prospect about a topic I hadn't actually thought about too much before this: the Communication Workers of America's culture.
On October 26, 1924, the first of five workers died in less than a week at Standard Oil’s New Jersey Bayway TEL works from lead exposure in making leaded gasoline..
Instacart workers, gig workers who shop for people via an app-based service, are organizing and engaging in a quasi-strike. When she started working for Instacart two years ago, Heidi Carrico typically made between $600 and $900 each week from the grocery-delivery app. That was several...
Sarah Jaffe has a typically excellent article about how the former GM workers at the shuttered Lordstown plant feel about the deal the UAW made with the company. They aren't.
After well over a month, the GM strike is nearing its end, at least it seems. It seems that the UAW was able to win its financial demands, more or.
On October 15, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. This act, like many anti-labor laws, had a veneer of a solution to a real problem, as there was indeed corruption in some unions, but also like these other laws...
On October 12, 1898, a racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in the southern Illinois coal mining town of Virden, Illinois. The so-called Battle of Virden demonstrates the ways that.
During the auto bailout, GM demanded all sorts of things from the United Auto Workers, including the hideous two-tiered contracts that the union is fighting against today. Julianne Malveaux's essay.