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Union Membership and White Workers’ Racial Attitudes

Union Membership and White Workers’ Racial Attitudes

  • February 18, 2021
  • Eric Dirnbach

A new study finds that U.S. union membership lowers white workers’ “racial resentment.” Eric Dirnbach explores what this means for the labor movement and the fight against white nationalism. The attack at the U.S. Capitol reinvigorated a discussion of the politics of Trump supporters. Trumpist more »

Worker cooperative vs. union

You can’t win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy

  • January 29, 2021
  • Carmen Molinari

Carmen Molinari, Lexi Owens, and Robert Fontana argue that worker cooperatives are not the institutions for fighting capitalism that many on the left take them to be.

Stardust Family United ULP strike January 27 2017

Remembering a strike, and seeing how we’ve grown

  • January 27, 2021
  • Alexis E

On the fourth anniversary of a strike, Alexis, a server at Ellen’s Stardust Diner in New York, reflects on the action with her coworkers.

Upside-down Pyramid, Bratislava © Thomas Ledl 2017 | Wikimedia Commons

The Alphabet Workers Union is the latest example of top-first organizing

  • January 12, 2021
  • Max Dewes

A tech worker critiques campaigns that begin by creating the “top” of the organization first (name, demands, public presence, organizational leaders) instead of building up from ground-level organizing.

Eviction defense, Maryland, July 2020

The eviction moratorium is a useful lesson in how reforms actually happen

  • January 7, 2021
  • Ray Valentine

Ray Valentine describes how collective disruption “outside the political process” won tenants significant concessions.

When they say jump

When they say jump

  • December 28, 2020
  • Jim Nolan

A maintenance worker with the Toronto Transit Commission describes a recent uneventful job action called by union leadership.

A class struggle Christmas Carol

A class struggle Christmas Carol

  • December 23, 2020
  • Marianne Garneau

Marianne Garneau looks at the classic story from an organizing perspective

The problem with 1199’s “Advice to Rookie Organizers”

The problem with 1199’s “Advice to Rookie Organizers”

  • December 21, 2020
  • Nick Driedger

Nick Driedger identifies a contradiction in the revered checklist.

Block Island Wind Farm, Rhode Island, 2017 | Wikipedia

The Green New Deal and the “rank-and-file strategy”

  • December 17, 2020
  • Gregory Butler

Gregory Butler argues that the DSA and Jacobin’s “rank-and-file strategy” in the construction industry consists mostly in pushing policy from above, leaving out worker concerns and worker organizing.

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