2019 wasn’t quite as profound a year as 2018 for strikes, but it still represents a solid rise in worker activism over the three decades prior to that. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (
In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. died in Memphis while supporting the city’s sanitation workers and their struggle for economic justice. Fifty-two years later, not that much has changed and the
The Chicago Teachers Union victory is a big one in the recent strike wave. I didn’t write about it much because I didn’t have a lot to say that others weren’t saying better. And also
It’s been remarkable that so many Democratic political candidates are now showing up on picket lines. Even in the golden age of American unionism, it’s not as if Harry Truman and Adlai Ste
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 of st
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 less, including protecting the amazing health insuran
These have not been great days for the United Auto Workers. The recent closing of several GM plants, including the iconic Lordstown plant, is basically the end of industrial unionism in America. There
One of the huge problems in the American labor movement has long been the extreme difficulty of large-scaling organizing in the South. Despite the herculean efforts of some great organizers, many of w