History and independent politics in the U.S.
A review of “Tramps and Trade Union Travelers”
by Tim GouletTim Goulet reviews Kim Moody’s “Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900.
A truck full of sensors
On the surveillance of UPS drivers
by A Local 886 TeamsterA Teamster in Oklahoma City describes how UPS uses new surveillance technology to undermine the union.
Defeat in Bessemer
A wake up call for the Left and labor
by Joe AllenLongtime socialist and Teamster, Joe Allen, critically assesses both the defeat of the Amazon organizing drive as well as the limitations of the lessons being drawn by some on the Left.
Solidarity with the Amazon workers
by Tempest
A Tempest editorial on the ongoing vote for unionization at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
National Amazon Solidarity
by Tempest
Watch the Tempest Collective forum “National Amazon Solidarity” to build support both for the RWDSU organizing campaign in Bessemer, Alabama.
Organizing Amazon
Prospects and challenges
by Joe AllenJoe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
Socialists and the BAmazon Union
What was our response? What can we do better?
by Sam SalourSam Salour discusses the lack of a coordinated response from the Democratic Socialists of America to what could be the most significant union election in the South in decades.
Amazon workers and the southern key?
An Alabama song
by Sumona GuptaSumona Gupta provides an important introduction to the background behind the current efforts to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama.
Where is UPS going?
by Joe Allen
Joe Allen calls attention to the ongoing restructuring at UPS, evidenced by the recent sale of UPS Freight, and why this sale and the recent history of UPS restructuring should be red flags for rank and file Teamsters and the union as a whole.
Understanding unions in the United States
A primer on labor law and history
by Andy SernatingerAndrew Sernatinger describes the basics of labor law and obstacles for labor organizing in the United States.