In the Great Resignation, millions of workers are quitting, but they could use assistance to organize for power in the workplace and improve their jobs instead, argues Eric Dirnbach.
Union Membership and White Workers’ Racial Attitudes
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
How Graduate Students Organized Their Recent Strike in Michigan
The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Michigan recently went on a seven-day strike over COVID and policing issues, during the contract
Labor’s last resort: Understanding the boycott strategy
Eric Dirnbach looks at the effectiveness of consumer boycott campaigns in support of worker organizing
The Expendables: In a pandemic, the lack of unions is literally killing workers
Union workplaces are safer, and that’s especially important during the coronavirus pandemic, argues Eric Dirnbach
“Management has no right to exist”: On the militant Farm Equipment Workers union
Eric Dirnbach reviews Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge
Is the US labor movement in recovery?
Eric Dirnbach crunches the latest numbers on unions and strikes
Review of America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
Eric Dirnbach reviews a biography of one of the US’s most influential organizers of the 20th century
Are worker centers unions?
A DOL investigation of a worker center seeks to reclassify it as a union. Eric Dirnbach and Marianne Garneau look at the differences between these kinds of organizations, and the potential impact of this change.