Why We Need Debtors’ Unions
Even if they don’t bring on a recession, the Federal Reserve’s recent series of interest rate hikes have already dampened
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
High-Octane Organizing at Starbucks
Caption: At the vote count. Starbucks workers in Falls Church, Virginia win 30-2. Credit: Richard Bensinger The first half of
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Between Military Violence, Union Busting and Deteriorating Working Conditions, Myanmar’s Factory Workers Are Being Squeezed from All Sides
Photo Credit: Solidarity Center. Caption: Workers in Myanmar have been at the forefront of protests against the military junta’s takeover,
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The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New: A History of the Tyranny of the Supremes
First published in TomDispatch, September 6, 2022: https://tomdispatch.com/the-trump-supreme-court-is-nothing-new/ Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent
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Office Space: The Political Economy of Remote Work
To think of the modern office is to think almost reflexively of something sterile and static—bright fluorescent lights, stale bitter
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Who Pays for Inflation?
Caption: Fred Wright cartoon from the 1970s, updated to reflect increases in corporate profits, prices and wages over the past
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Sectoral Bargaining: Labor’s Pathway to Power?
Top: Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at May Day 2021 rally. Photo credit: Alex Casconne Bottom: Union members at
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The Chicago Teachers’ Strike Ten Years On: Organizing for the Common Good, Then and Now
Ten years ago, Chicago educators lit the fuse of what eventually became a national teachers’ revolt. Faced with Democratic Mayor
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Domestic Worker Organizing in Neo-Authoritarian Brazil
Brazil is a country marked by historically rooted social, political, and economic inequalities. These are linked primarily to the centuries-long
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Grocery Unions under the Gun in New York City and the Nation
By the end of the 2010s, only 6 percent of U.S. private-sector workers were union members—the lowest share in a
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