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NLF Highlights Organized Labor & Worker Organizing

Stop & Shop Workers and the Come Back of the Strike

May 2019May 2019 Paula Finn collective bargaining, Labor, labor movement, stike, work stoppages

According to a recent report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of U.S. workers involved in work stoppages

Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing

STRIKE! Why Mothballing Labor’s Key Weapon Is Wrong

April 2019April 2019 Joe Burns Labor, labor movement, strike, trade unionism

When the labor movement rises again, it will not be the result of improved methods of organizing house calls, the

Gender & Sexual Identity NLF Highlights

#MeToo and the Labor Movement

April 2019April 2019 Paula Finn #MeToo, gender, labor movement, sexual harrassment

Highlights for April 1st The early successes of the #MeToo movement caught many commentators by surprise. However, despite its notable

NLF Highlights U.S. Politics & Society

The State of the Unions

October 2018October 2018 Paula Finn labor movement, new york city, new york state, reports, teachers, union density

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies faculty Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce have released their annual report on the

NLF Highlights

2 Events This Week at the Murphy Institute

March 2018June 2018 Paula Finn #MeToo, feminism, labor movement, manufacturing, trade, trade policy

Highlights for March 19th On Friday, March 23rd, the Murphy Institute, publisher of New Labor Forum, will be holding two

Featured The Environment

Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground

May 2016June 2018 Sean Sweeney energy policy, environmental, jobs, Keystone XL, labor movement, labor unions, LiUNA, pipeline, Sean Sweeney, Spring 2016

Contested Futures: Labor After Keystone XL by Sean Sweeney The extraordinary story of the political battle over the Keystone XL

On the Contrary

It’s an Academic Question: Why Progressive Intellectuals Should Not Stay Out of Internal Union Battles

May 2011August 2015 Dan Clawson Dan Clawson, Internal Union Battles, labor movement, Progressive Intellectuals, Spring 2011

As an academic beginning to engage with the labor movement, if there was one point on which everyone was clear, it was this: you absolutely, positively cannot get involved in the internal politics of the labor movement.

I disagree. If we are to study and work with labor at all, we almost inevitably are involved in its internal politics. Even if it were possible to avoid doing so, I don’t think it would be desirable.