Kent Wong: Educator, Organizer, Visionary 1956-2025
Caption: Kent Wong pictured in front of the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles,
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
The Labor Movement Must Call the Question on Medicare Privatization
Caption: Seniors and retirees protest cuts to Medicare, July 13, 2023. Credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit The passage of
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Moving Beyond Free Trade and Protectionism: Tariffs Then and Now
Caption: Bahamas flag container ship, Myriad, Iyo Nada, Seto Naikai, Japan. February 23, 2023. Credit: EZEK, Flickr Trade policy has
Read MoreBuilding a Conservative Labor Movement: American Compass and the Right’s Pro-Worker Policy Agenda
What does it look like when the right attempts to articulate its own version of a “pro-worker” program? That is
Read MoreHow the Democrats Can Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
What is the best way to build working-class power when labor’s leverage over capital is near a historic low? With
Read MoreDoes “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future?
Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the
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Resentment and Recrimination: Can U.S. Labor Unions and Indian Tech Workers on H-1B Visas Ever Get Along?
Credit: RDNE Stock project, Pexels The start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term will probably be remembered for the
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Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later
Credit: Luis Feliz Leon, labor journalist. Caption: Amazon delivery driver Jogernsyn Cardenas stopped his van to join the strike and
Read MoreOrganizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts
In the popular imaginary, Ford’s River Rouge complex has come to represent an industrial age long gone. Completed in 1928,
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The Four-Day Workweek: Possibility or Pipedream?
Credit: Ris and Ry, Unsplash In 2018, a New Zealand-based entrepreneur named Andrew Barnes began an eight-week experiment at his
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