The labor movement in the United States used to be “very anti-immigration,” said Jacob Remes, a labor historian and a ...
The Republican National Convention opened last night with an unlikely prime time speaker: Sean O'Brien, president of the Teamsters union. His appearance has the labor movement riled up. An unlikely ...
The latest phase of the Starbucks Workers United campaign includes sit-ins at stores, where union members have been arrested. They say the escalation is necessary to call attention to their fight.
ROANOKE. Va. – The labor movement looks a lot different now than it did decades ago. In the first eight months of 2023, over 323,000 workers walked off the job for better benefits, pay, and working ...
One so seldom has the opportunity to report good news about labor unions that when two good things happen in the space of 24 hours that’s a triumph. The first is a rebuke to the incoming Trump ...
In politics denial eventually leads to a harsh reckoning. For the labor movement Trump’s re-election may have finally shattered decades of illusion that unions had in the Democrats, who lost by ...
Labor unions have a long history in the United States of advocating for workers’ rights. But in recent years, some unions, ...
Authoritarian socialists, communists, and even some anarchists believe that the labor movement and the socialist/anarchist movement are the same and share identical goals. In this article, I want to ...
The U.S. labor movement has a decades-long history of supporting Israel wholeheartedly, punctuated by moments of pro-Palestine actions by rank-and-file activists. As Israel wages its war on Gaza, ...
Labor Day is on Monday, Sept. 2. What is the history of Labor Day? Labor Day became a national holiday in 1894 under then-President Grover Cleveland. The holiday was to be observed on the first Monday ...
If you’ve spent any time around the labor movement, you’ve probably heard the saying: “an injury to one is an injury to all.” This is a core principle of our movement, not just because we care for our ...
Director, producer, rapper, and socialist Boots Riley has been active in the labor movement since he was a teenager, but this is his first time being on strike. Though the auteur has plenty of work to ...