Social Unionism Lives
Joshua Freeman
Garment workers at a suburban Chicago factory fight to save their jobs and prove that social unionism is still relevant.
2009
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Who's Afraid of Industrial Policy?
Max Fraser
We shouldn't pass up a chance to enlist the auto industry in a green transition.
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Time for Another Reuther Plan
Nelson Lichtenstein : United Auto Workers (UAW)
Autoworkers should meet this crisis as they have in the past: boldly and visibly.
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Can Labor Revive the American Dream?
Esther Kaplan
The business lobby declares war on the Employee Free Choice Act.
2008
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Learning About Labor
Hugh Baran : Student Movements
This essay, a finalist in The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues that the new President should restore workers' rights ASAP.
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United Electric Worker Speaks Out
A labor organizer from Chicago sheds light on the ongoing protest for wages owed to Republic Windows and Doors workers.
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Blue-Collar Republicans
Christopher Hayes : Republican Party
The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.
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Labor's New Push
Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
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Labor's War on Global Warming
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Peace Activism
Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
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Firestone's Super Bowl Fumble
Few people watching the Firestone-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show are aware of the company's reputation in Liberia for harsh working conditions, child labor and environmental ruin.
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Right to Strike Imperiled in Cananea
If the Mexican government and Grupo Mexico succeed in smashing a miners' strike, the reverberations will be felt even across the US border.
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Beyond the Labor Board
Partisan appointments to Bush's National Labor Relations Board have ensured it's virtually impossible for workers to get a fair shake.
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Writers of the World Unite
Luvh Rakhe : Internet & New Media
Striking members of the Writers Guild of America are bringing the labor movement something it hasn't had for a long time: an audience.
2007
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Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Wages & Hours
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
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Permalancers, Unite!
Freelancers staged a walkout at Viacom this week, instigating one of the most unlikely and successful labor campaigns in recent memory.
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WGA: Picket and Click It
Christopher Lisotta : Internet & New Media
As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.
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