Essential Workers: Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change
Caption: Construction workers have to deal with extreme heat, the leading cause of climate-related fatalities. Credit: Mikael Blomkvist, Pexels Around
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors
Caption: Justice for Janitors March, July 10, 2010. Credit: SEIU local 1 Stephen Lerner joined SEIU in the mid-1980s and
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Central American Democracy in Crisis
Left photo: Nayib Bukele during the 2019 presidential elections in El Salvador, February 3, 2019. Credit: Presidential House, El Salvador
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The United Auto Workers’ Southern Offensive
“Organize the South!” has long been a progressive imperative, from the interracial Union Leagues that sought to defend Reconstruction-era radicalism
Read MoreA New Route for Auto Workers: An Interview with the UAW’s Jonah Furman
Things tend to move slowly in the American labor movement—big ships don’t change course quickly. An exception has been in
Read MoreHow the U.S. Labor Movement Is Confronting AI
When Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent
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Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge
Credit for cover and Resnikoff: From Pixabay. Pete Linforth created this image using AI. The material changes ushered in under
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Bidenomics: A Giant Step Forward for Workers
Credit: ABCDStock Caption: Construction workers laying new asphalt to repair the road. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided funding
Read MoreThe Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: A New Model for Worker-Led Organizing
Tens of millions of workers in the United States want a union at their workplace, but do not have one.[1]
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Remembering Master Union Organizer and Strategist Jane McAlevey
Review of Rules To Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations by Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor (Oxford University
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