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Public support for unions is at a near 60-year high. Meanwhile, self-organizers at major American chains are spearheading a new movement to mobilize.
Labor Day 2022 comes smack bang in the middle of what is increasingly looking like a pivotal year in the history of American unions.
The summer (...)
THE JUNE 17-19 Labor Notes conference in Chicago confirmed a new spirit of confrontation at the workplace. Will this develop into a broad challenge to the last 40 years of concessions? Will it be able to launch a successful attack against the corporations and the politicians who back them? (...)
Two quite different labor meetings have taken place this month. The labor bureaucracy organized one. Rank-and-file workers were at the center of the other.
The AFL-CIO held its convention in Philadelphia on June 12, for the first time electing as president a woman, Liz Shuler, and also for the (...)
We publish the motion passed by CWA Local 7250 - a local of Communications Workers of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota - one of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO - which primarily organizes telecommunications workers in North America.
WHEREAS Ukraine has long been under the domination of (...)
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York City, won a historic ballot on April 1 to form a union.
The newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU) won by more than 500 votes, with 2654 workers voting in favour of a union and 2131 voting against, according to the National Labor Relations (...)
The victory of the OZ slate in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union, headed by Sean O’Brien and Fred Zuckerman and backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), has raised the question: Will this new leadership bring about reform in one of the nation’s largest and most (...)
The United States labour movement won its biggest victory in years on November 17.
John Deere workers began militant strike action in the mid-west in October, stood up against a powerful employer — and, when necessary, their own national union leadership — and won.
Strikes in many industries (...)
Thousands of workers are on strike right now in the United States, in what is being dubbed “Striketober”. In some cases, bosses are using “replacements” (scabs) to cross picket lines and keep the profits flowing.
Strikers are fed up with poor working conditions, forced overtime, 16-hour shifts, (...)
The United States is experiencing one of the biggest worker movements in decades. While it is not organized by the labor unions, involves no strikes, and has had little fanfare, it is a common action–if not exactly a conscious collective action–being taken by millions
Over the last several (...)
Last Friday’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor elicited a barrage of gloomy headlines. The New York Times emphasized “weak” jobsgrowth and fretted that“hiring challenges that have bedeviled employers all year won’t be quickly resolved,” and “rising wages could add to concerns about (...)
A Review of Worked Over: How Round-The-Clock Work is Killing the American Dream by Jamie K. McCallum (Basic Books, 2021); Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, by Sarah Jaffe (Bold Type Books, 2021) and Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and The (...)
It seemed like everything was set for victory. A large, powerful corporation that took advantage of poverty wages paid in a southern state. Union organizers who countered company propaganda by highlighting connections between “civil rights and union rights” to a predominately African-American (...)
First, we must recognize that the overwhelming vote against the union in Bessemer marks a decisive defeat, not to be under estimated. It will undoubtedly have a dampening effect on other workers, especially given its broad media attention, and the high expectations of many. Yet, before (...)
The cameras and news trucks may be leaving town. But at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, where the company won a closely watched unionization vote last week, the fight isn’t over. And at Amazon’s other warehouses, it’s just getting started.
At the press conference held by the Retail, (...)
After a week of counting by the United States National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a majority of those casting a postal vote at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama rejected a unionisation effort by the Retail, Warehouse and Department Store Union (RWDSU).
Workers voted 1798 to 738 (...)
In a major setback for the U.S. labor movement, last week the union organizing drive at the giant Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama defeated. Workers voted 1,798 against and 738 for the union in a union representation election in which only about half of the 5,876 eligible workers (...)
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are voting on whether to become the first unionised Amazon warehouse in the United States.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) mailed ballots to nearly 6000 Amazon workers, who will decide whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store (...)
The death of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney has evoked examinations of his legacy. One can praise the good things but its important to address the bad things so we can have a more accurate understanding of his time.
The February 2021 death of AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeny has evoked a (...)
Biden and Harris are not going to stop the crises we are facing — mutual aid projects are essential to survive and build the world we want to live in.
The only thing that keeps those in power in that position is the illusion of our powerlessness. A moment of freedom and connection can undo a (...)
Seventeen years after the release of Kim Moody’s pamphlet The Rank and File Strategy for the socialist organization Solidarity, and two decades after Moody’s then prescient assessment of the state of the working class, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, his recent (...)
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