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Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

  • April 9, 2021
  • Carmen Molinari

Carmen Molinari analyzes why media strategies don’t win organizing campaigns

1919 steel strike

‘Union’ is a verb

  • March 31, 2021
  • Nate Holdren

Nate Holdren argues that “the labor movement has more possible futures than just passing the PRO Act vs the continuation of the present and intolerable business-as-usual.”

Jack Mundey, BLF members and local residents at a Green Ban demonstration, 1973.

Class power can remake society: remembering Australia’s “green ban” movement

  • March 24, 2021
  • Ben Purtill

Ben Purtill recounts when building laborers in Australia stopped work, first over wages and working conditions, and then to protect the environment, among other “social” causes.

The spectacle of boycotts

The spectacle of boycotts

  • March 9, 2021
  • Carmen Molinari

Carmen Molinari argues that viral boycott calls like the recent one against Amazon “point us away from the hard work of building real power.”

The problem with leaders

The problem with leaders

  • February 26, 2021
  • Marianne Garneau

Marianne Garneau discusses the challenges of handling organic social leaders in a workplace organizing campaign.

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

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.

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