From militant to Washington insider
On Richard Trumka
by Tim GouletTim Goulet discusses the life and death of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
Seattle educators endorse BDS
An interview with six SEA members
by Darrin HoopSeattle Education Association member Darrin Hoop interviews six other members of the union who organized to pass a resolution in solidarity with Palestine.
Twin Cities bus drivers and anti-racist action
An interview with Adam Burch
by Paul KDPaul 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.
New Jersey Communists in the 1920s
A review of The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike
by Tim GouletTim Goulet reviews The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike by Jacob Zumoff
The market compels it
A restaurant worker on reopening
by Natalia TylimRestaurant worker Natalia Tylim discusses the experience of restaurant reopening in New York City this winter before broad vaccine distribution.
Worker and popular education
by Avery Wear & James Boyle
Avery Wear and James Boyle discuss the massive adult education system organized by the U.S. Left in the early 20th century.
Let go of the fear
Unionizing Duke University Press
by Aaron AmaralJoe Stapleton interviews Ale Mejía and Ben Kossak about the newly formed Duke University Press (DUP) Workers Union.
San Francisco educators endorse BDS
by Alex Schmaus and brian bean
Alex Schmaus and brian bean report on the first public school educators union in the U.S. to endorse boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli apartheid.
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.