Tag: Union organizing
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What we learned from the Teamster election
Andy Sernatinger analyzes the results from the recent International Brotherhood of Teamster elections, in light of both past elections and significant membership information recently reported by the union, and finds a new leadership facing big tasks and challenges.
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CTU election
Joe Allen examines the context of the 2022 CTU elections, the impact of its leadership on Chicago politics, teacher unionism, and the trade union movement nationally, and argues for the importance of a vote for CORE.
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Amazon: The future is unwritten
A Tempest editorial assesses the importance of the bombshell victory of the independent Amazon Labor Union in its organizing effort against the logistics giant.
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A new chapter for Mexican labor
Héctor A. Rivera interviews Willebaldo Gómez Zupa about the recent union victory at General Motors Mexico.
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Class against class
Tim Goulet reviews Joe Burns’ new book Class Struggle Unionism and how it relates to the current state of the labor movement.
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How IATSE got strike ready
Héctor A. Rivera interviews IATSE member Spring Super about what led to the strike vote, the impact of BLM, and what solidarity looks like.
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From militant to Washington insider
Tim Goulet discusses the life and death of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
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Seattle educators endorse BDS
Seattle Education Association member Darrin Hoop interviews six other members of the union who organized to pass a resolution in solidarity with Palestine.
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Twin Cities bus drivers and anti-racist action
Paul KD interviews Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 member Adam Burch about the union and the anti-racist action it took during the uprising in Minneapolis last summer.
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New Jersey Communists in the 1920s
Tim Goulet reviews The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike by Jacob Zumoff