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In D.C.’s Wealthiest Suburbs, It’s Round 2 in the Fight for $15
Undeterred by a stinging defeat earlier this year, a union-backed push for a $15-an-hour wage is back on in the Washington, D.C. suburbs&mdash... more
By Bruce Vail
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The Trump Administration Just Put Ronald Reagan Alongside Eugene Debs In Its Labor Hall of Honor
On Thursday, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced that former President Ronald Reagan will be entering the Labor Department's Hall of Honor, joining the ranks... more
By Thor Benson
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2,000 Striking Auto Mechanics Say Their Whole Industry Needs Realignment
The cost of car repairs might make your heart sink, but Chicago-area mechanics say they don’t get a fair deal from dealerships, either.... more
By Will Greenberg
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Renegotiating NAFTA Is Putting Lipstick on a Pig
The first round of the Trump administration’s NAFTA renegotiations began in Washington wrapped up on Saturday. The negotiators will meet again... more
By Robert E. Scott
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Workers May Have Just Killed Missouri’s Right to Work Law
In a badly needed victory for organized labor, a coalition of workers’ rights groups in Missouri is poised to halt a devastating new anti-union... more
By Jeff Schuhrke
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The Philippine Labor Movement Is Beginning to Turn Against Authoritarian Rule
The people of Manila have always struggled to survive day to day, but now they're cheating death every night. The vices and bandits that... more
By Michelle Chen
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The Future of the Low-Wage Worker Movement May Depend on a Little-Known New York Law
This article first appeared in Waging Nonviolence. Flavia Cabral doesn’t equivocate. She joined the fast food worker movement, she said, for a... more
By Max Zahn
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Don’t Be Fooled by the Limelight on Lifestyle as a Cancer Risk
Chemical compounds that incapacitate or kill, like phosgene, chlorine and sulfur mustard, were put into German artillery shells and delivered by howitzers on the frontlines... more
By Laura Orlando
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The UAW Vote in Mississippi is a Battle for the Soul of the U.S. Labor Movement
After years of painstaking work by United Auto Workers (UAW) organizers to build support for a union at the big Nissan auto and truck assembly... more
By David Moberg
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It’s Not Just Class: The Fight for Racial Justice Is Inseparable from Overcoming Capitalism
On the surface, it would seem easy to think about race and class together. Not too long ago, I would have regarded a challenging formulation... more
By David Roediger
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As Media Focuses on Russia Collusion, Trump Is Quietly Stacking the Labor Board with Union Busters
It might not get as much press coverage as other Donald Trump administration calamities, but the U.S. president is set to appoint a known... more
By Michael Arria
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Understanding the Existential Threat Trump Poses to a Beleaguered Labor Movement
This article first appeared in Jacobin. As nativist right-wing populism surges across the Global North amidst the exhaustion of social democracy and “Third Way... more
By Barry Eidlin
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Offshoring Solidarity: How Call-Center Workers Are Organizing Across Borders
This article first appeared in Labor Notes. One big issue in May’s three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company&rsquo... more
By Dan DiMaggio
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As Universities are Gutted, Grad Student Employee Unions Can Provide a Vital Defense
The exploitation of academic workers has simmered for decades. Now, buoyed by a National Labor Relations Board ruling that graduate employees at private universities... more
By Sabeen Ahmed
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In Defense of the Campus: Why the Left Must Not Write Off Universities
Higher education in the United States has long been subject to a right-wing smear campaign painting college campuses as incubators for dangerous radicalism. There is... more
By Ari Paul
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How Chicago’s Police Union Contract Ensures Abuses Remain in the Shadows
Activists are calling on the city to represent victims of police violence in upcoming contract negotiations. more
By Adeshina Emmanuel
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How Union-Busting Bosses Propel the Right Wing to Power
U.S. bosses fight unions with a ferocity that is unmatched in the so-called free world. In the early days of the republic, master craftsmen... more
By Shaun Richman
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Thousands of Haitian Workers Are on Strike Against Foreign-Owned Sweatshops
Thousands of textile workers in Haiti have stopped work in factories and taken to the streets to demand of improved working conditions in the country... more
By Jeff Abbott
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What You Need to Know About the General Strike That Just Swept Colombia’s Largest Port
Little-noticed by the English-language media, the Colombian city of Buenaventura was brought to a standstill by a weeks-long civic strike, in which Afro-Colombian communities won... more
By Neil Martin and Isaias Cifuentes
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