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
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
A 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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Platform Kitchens and the Remaking of Food Service
Caption: A three-hundred-square foot delivery kitchen within a thirty-minute delivery range of three high-income residential neighborhoods in New York City.
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Queer Working-Class Politics and the U.S. Labor Movement
Caption: Starbucks workers and organizers from Philadelphia and other cities plus other Philly workers rallied at City Hall. Credit: Joe
Read MoreThe Current Migrant Crisis: How U.S. Policy Toward Latin America Has Fueled Historic Numbers of Asylum Seekers
Editor’s Note The report that follows was issued on October 20, 2023, by the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois
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