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
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The Red for Ed Movement, Two Years In
Photo caption: Teachers’ strike in Phoenix, Arizona on April 26, 2018. Photo credit: Eric Blanc By Eric Blanc In late
Read moreThe New Solidarity: How Immigrant Bond Funds Free ICE Detainees
By Mariya Strauss On August 7, 2019, veteran civil rights attorney Cliff Johnson, who directs the MacArthur Justice Center at
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Sex Work is Work
A good number of sex workers wouldn’t define themselves as sex workers, but the term is becoming more ubiquitous over
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#CountMeIn: The NYC Building Trades Campaign Puts It All on the Line
An unusual but increasingly common sight on the streets of New York City, hundreds, some- times thousands of union construction
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Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Platform Workers Take on Tech Giants in the Workplace and the World
In recent years, Silicon Valley’s platform workers have introduced a phenomenon previously alien to their industry: collective action. This process
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Beyond #MeToo
Power and sexploitation at work.
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Labor Wars: Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing
In this article, views of Shaun Richman are expressed followed by a response from Jonathan Rosenblum Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing By Shaun Richman In 2005, the labor movement…
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Careful What You Wish For: A Critical Appraisal of Proposals to Rebuild the Labor Movement
Alarmed at declining union density and frustrated with the National Labor Relations Act, many worker advocates want to ditch the NLRA, forsake traditional unions, and start the labor movement afresh. But they should not let novelty overwhelm judgment. Many of these new ideas are clever in theory, but in practice…
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