Always Essential: Grocery Store Work in a Pandemic
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Norma Leiva, a warehouse manager at
Read more
collective bargaining
It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer
The Amazon workers union election in Bessemer, Alabama was the most-covered union drive in many years. The New York Times
Read more
Save the News: Campaigning to Preserve Jobs and Democratize Journalism A Conversation with Jon Schleuss
Jon Schleuss, a data reporter and union leader at the Los Angeles Times, defeated a 12-year incumbent to become president
Read more
More Austerity Coming? Lessons from New York’s 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Photo caption: Andrea Vásquez, Professional Staff Congress (PSC) first Vice President, before heading to the May 18, 2020, caravan calling
Read more
Moneybags for Billionaires, Body Bags for Workers: Organizing in the Time of Pandemics
Photo caption: In Bel Air on July 1, 2020, Marie Germaine, a local elementary school teacher speaks at a press
Read more
In a Covid-19 World, Can Hotel Workers Keep Their Gains?
Photo caption: Anand Singh (center) in the middle of Minneapolis’ Fourth Street, during coordinated national demonstrations against Marriott in 2018.
Read moreOn-Again/Off-Again: The Relationship between Socialism and U.S. Labor
Democratic socialists want to achieve, as the late British Labour Party leader Tony Benn often put it, a fundamental and
Read more
Game Workers Unite!
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger inter- viewed Declan Peach, a game worker
Read more
The Labor Movement Comes to Virtual Reality: Unionizing Digital Media
Kim Kelly’s first “real” job—outside of dishwashing, retail sales, and touring with metal bands as a merchandise person—was at Vice
Read more
Stop & Shop Workers and the Come Back of the Strike
According to a recent report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of U.S. workers involved in work stoppages
Read more
