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Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Adjuncts Have a Hard Time: Unions at Rutgers Just Made It a Little Easier

September 2023September 2023 Kressent Pottenger 0 Comments collective bargaining, contingent workers, democracy, education, equality, union democracy, unorganized workers

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Hank Kalet, a part-time lecturer in

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The Strike: Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

September 2023 Bob Master 0 Comments collective bargaining, CWA, Labor, labor history, mobile picketing, NYNEX strike, organizing, PATCO, strikes, trade unions

At 11 a.m. on Monday, August 3, 1981, President Ronald Reagan strode to a podium in the White House Rose

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Corporate Railroading in the Twenty-First Century: A Train Conductor’s Life

May 2023May 2023 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, Democratic Party, industry, Labor, middle class, union democracy

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Nick Wurst, a freight train conductor

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Barista Solidarity from Buffalo to Oklahoma City

September 2022November 2022 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, health care, living wage, unorganized workers

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Alyssa Sperrazza, a barista trainer at

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Sectoral Bargaining: Labor’s Pathway to Power?

September 2022September 2022 Peter Olney and Rand Wilson collective bargaining, Labor, politics, sectoral bargaining, trade unions, unorganized workers

Top: Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at May Day 2021 rally. Photo credit: Alex Casconne Bottom: Union members at

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

No More “Trolly Dollies”: Flight Attendants Are Safety Professionals

July 2022July 2022 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, democracy, equality, gender discrimination, industry, Labor, women workers

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Susannah Carr, a flight attendant at

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Winning Against the Odds: The 32BJ SEIU Organizing Model

April 2022April 2022 Rob Hill and Stuart Eimer collective bargaining, Labor, organizing, trade unions, union renewal, unorganized workers

Airport workers, 32BJ members, and allies arrested while blocking the entrance to LaGuardia Airport on January 20, 2014. Courtesy of

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Veena Dubal Replies to Larry Cohen

January 2022January 2022 Veena Dubal collective bargaining, contingent workers, gig work, immigrant workers, sectoral bargaining, unorganized workers

Trade union density (alongside economic equality and working conditions) has fallen across all Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

On the Contrary