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.”
Class power can remake society: remembering Australia’s “green ban” movement
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
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
Marianne Garneau discusses the challenges of handling organic social leaders in a workplace organizing campaign.
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
You can’t win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
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.
The Alphabet Workers Union is the latest example of top-first organizing
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.
The eviction moratorium is a useful lesson in how reforms actually happen
Ray Valentine describes how collective disruption “outside the political process” won tenants significant concessions.
When they say jump
A maintenance worker with the Toronto Transit Commission describes a recent uneventful job action called by union leadership.