Labor

Sabotage as a Tool of Solidarity

Workplace sabotage has historically been a powerful organizing tactic. Is the time ripe again?

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Right Believes It Has the Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Labor Law

Unions need to plan a response now.

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Amazon Union Campaign Won By Following the Lead of Workers

Amazon Labor Union shows us an essential ingredient of successful union campaigns: democratic autonomy.

Shaun Richman

Labor

Happy Striketober. Let's Restore the Legal Right to Strike.

Now's the perfect time to fight for the right to return to a job once a strike is over.

Shaun Richman

Labor

“The Amazon Workers in Bessemer Would Already Have Their Union If We Had the PRO Act”

What the union loss at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama means for the future of organizing in the Biden era.

Kim Kelly and Shaun Richman

Labor

A Brief History of the U.S. Government’s Targeting of Left-Wing Immigrants

Throughout U.S. history, right-wing forces have used the denial of citizenship to restrict political dissent.

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Powerful Movement To Micromanage and Defund Public Schools Has Been Awfully Quiet About Police

Shaun Richman

Labor

Kick the Boss Out of the Doctor’s Office

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Powerful New Idea in Elizabeth Warren’s Labor Platform

Shaun Richman

Labor

Bernie Sanders’ Labor Plan Could Put a Union in Every Workplace in America

Shaun Richman

Labor

The First Labor Plans of the 2020 Race Just Dropped. Here’s What to Make of Them.

Shaun Richman

Labor

Fighting Against Racism—And For a Better Paycheck—On the Docks

Shaun Richman

Labor

You’re a Sad Scab, Mr. Chait

Shaun Richman

Culture

America’s Great Strike Waves Have Shaped the Country. We Can Unleash Another.

Erik Loomis’ "A History of America in Ten Strikes" is a powerful reminder of the need for worker militancy.

Shaun Richman

Feature

Nonunion Workers Can Save Unions. We Just Need to Reimagine How We Collect Dues.

The case for voluntary payroll deductions to donate to unions.

Shaun Richman

Labor

The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Has Activists Asking: Should We Revive the Wildcat?

Shaun Richman

Labor

Here’s How a Supreme Court Decision To Gut Public Sector Unions Could Backfire on the Right

Shaun Richman

Labor

Republicans Are Taking Voter Suppression to the Workplace

Shaun Richman

Labor

Biggest Labor Stories of 2017: The Attacks From Above and the Fight From Below

Shaun Richman

Labor

How Bosses Use “Open Shop” Campaigns to Crush Unions

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Untold Story of How Immigrants Turned the Wobblies into a Global Force

Shaun Richman

Labor

SCOTUS Is on the Verge of Decimating Public-Sector Unions—But Workers Can Still Fight Back

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Right Wing Has a Vast, Secret Plot to Destroy Unions for Good. Here’s How to Fight Back.

Shaun Richman

Feature

A New Bill of Rights for Workers: 10 Demands the Labor Movement Can Fight for and Win

Now is the time for unions to rewrite the rules.

Shaun Richman

Labor

How Union-Busting Bosses Propel the Right Wing to Power

Shaun Richman

Labor

Trump Wants To Privatize Air Traffic Control. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Shaun Richman

Labor

Republicans Will Turn the NLRB into a Force for Union Busting. We Can Turn It Back.

Shaun Richman

Labor

What the Big May Day Strike in a Small Pennsylvania City Teaches Us About Organizing

Shaun Richman

Labor

Unions Are at Their Lowest Levels in Decades—To Gain Power We Must Stop Following the Rules

Shaun Richman

Labor

From Company Town to Rebel City: Richmond, California Shows How Progressives Can Win

Shaun Richman

Feature

Fighting Trump Isn’t Enough—We Must Also Wage War Within the Democratic Party

Absent our activism, the changing face of the GOP will continue to drag the Democrats further to the right.

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Two-Tier Provision in the Chicago Teachers Union’s Tentative Agreement, Explained

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Fight to Save UMass Labor Center Is a Fight for Worker Power

Shaun Richman

Labor

We Are Witnessing a New Age of Social Justice Movements—And That Includes Labor

Shaun Richman

Labor

When the Hell Did the NLRB Become More Activist Than Labor?

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Right to Strike Must Mean the Right to Return to Work After a Strike

Shaun Richman

Labor

What Will It Take To Wake Up the ‘Sleeping Giant’ of the New Working Class?

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Verizon Strike Is Now In Its Second Month, and the Stakes Are Higher Than Ever

Shaun Richman

Labor

The Legal Argument That Could Overturn ‘Right-to-Work’ Laws Around the Country

Shaun Richman

Feature

Bernie Sanders Wasn’t Our First Socialist Mayor: Remembering Milwaukee’s Socialist Party History

Frank Zeidler served the city as mayor for three terms, and his Socialist Party held seats in the city council, state legislature and even Congress.

Shaun Richman

Labor

It’s Time for the Labor Movement To Pursue a New Judicial Activist Agenda

Shaun Richman

Viewpoint

Our Political System Is in the Midst of a Massive Realignment. Here’s How the Left Should Respond.

We have an opportunity to build a different kind of party.

Shaun Richman

Labor

Friedrichs Is Dead; Labor’s Crisis Is Not. The ‘Scalia Dividend’ Is a Rare Opportunity for Unions.

Shaun Richman

Labor

With 3 Recent High-Profile Walkoffs, Is the Wildcat Strike Back?

Shaun Richman

Labor

Could a New NLRB Case Limit Bosses’ Best Anti-Union Tool, the Captive Audience Meeting?

Shaun Richman

Labor

How ‘Friedrichs’ Could Actually Unleash Unions from Decades of Free Speech Restrictions

Shaun Richman

Labor

As Attacks on Unions Continue, Bringing Back the Strike May Be Our Only Hope

Shaun Richman

Labor

How Friedrichs v. Calif. Teachers Association Could Actually Be a Boon for Unions

Shaun Richman