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.
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 labor movement in the United States used to be “very anti-immigration,” said Jacob Remes, a labor historian and a ...
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 ...
From the #HotLaborSummer seeing actors and screenwriters going on strike to healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente going on strike into the fall, the U.S. experienced a massive surge in labor ...
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 ...
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 ...
From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday with activist ...
From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday with activist ...