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.
Solidarity with the CTU!
by Tempest
Solidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union as they stand against the unsafe opening of the schools.
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.
Foundations of a DSA labor strategy
by Hakan Yilmaz
Hakan Yilmaz proposes an industrial organizing strategy for the Democratic Socialists of America.
We will not let democracy die
An interview with David Van Deusen, President of the Vermont AFL-CIO
by Terri Nilliasca and Andy SernatingerTerri Nilliasca and Andy Sernatinger interview David van Deusen, President of the Vermont AFL-CIO, about the new radical leadership in the state federation.
Memories of the class
A review of “Living and Dying on the Factory Floor”
by Joe AllenJoe Allen reviews David Ranney’s autobiographical account of his life as a revolutionary socialist factory worker in the 1970s and 1980s.
Council power in the Iranian labor movement
by Nasrin and Sam Salour
Nasrin and Sam Salour discuss how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.
A union wave for Twin Cities hospitality workers
by Paul KD
Paul KD charts the rapid growth of a union movement among craft breweries and service workers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Strike for abolition
A Michigan grad labor activist on striking to defund the police
by Alice HermanAlice Herman interviews a striking worker at University of Michigan about their strike to defund the police and the lessons for other police reform movements.