A street canvasser reflects on a successful NLRB election at Grassroots Campaigns Inc. in Seattle, before the company shuttered the office in retaliation for the union effort
No Shortcuts, but to where?
Nick Driedger reviews Jane McAlevey’s “No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age”
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.
Breaking legs and organizing workers: a Teamster reviews Scorsese’s “The Irishman”
A former Teamster at UPS and alternate shop steward reviews Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.”
Progressives in the streets, union-busters in the sheets
Marianne Garneau looks at several current campaigns at social justice nonprofits, showing how these organizations are progressive until it comes to their own workers.
An organizing dilemma
A restaurant worker reflects on using direct action versus legal strategies for fighting the employer, drawing on his experience organizing at a vegan restaurant in Montreal.
“We’re the sacrificial lamb”: On the UAW plant closures
Workers on the picket line at the Lordstown, OH General Motors plant reflect on the plant’s closure as part of the new deal negotiated between the company and the UAW.
Fighting with a purpose: interview with a Special Education Classroom Assistant on strike in Chicago
A education paraprofessional and SEIU union delegate describes why she’s walking the picket line
ROC Confidential
Jean-Carl Elliott describes his disillusionment working for Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), and why non-profits are a dead-end for worker power.