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How a new class of "salts"—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.

Waterwell, in association with Working Theater, present 7 Minutes written by Stefano Massini translated by Francesca Spedalieri directed by Kristina Valada-Viars "7 Minutes is an extraordinary play about the fear, anger, strength, and resilience of workers in a warehouse fighting against a concession. It touches on every aspect of those very difficult but detrimental

GREENVILLE, S.C. and CARBONDALE, Ill.—A Starbucks Workers United unionizing win, 8-1, in the most anti-union state in the U.S., South Carolina, “will give a lot of hope” to other organizing drives there, a top Carolinian labor historian, Kerry Taylor, says.

US labor in trouble and transition, Kim Moody, London: Verso 2007 Why is US labor in decline and how can the situation be turned around? Kim Moody, a prominent Marxist participant and commentator in the US labour movement over the past three decades has produced a coherent answer to these questions, with implications of the revival of trade unionism everywhere. The book explains why US labour went into decline, what the current state of play is in the unions and points to potential signs of revi...

The ALU shows that it's still possible to win historic union elections, even under current federal labor rules.

At this GM plant in Mexico, workers on both sides of the border came together across national boundaries to challenge corporate power.

Tempest contributors Justin Feldman and Sam Friedman discuss the shortcomings of the Left in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and try to trace a path forward.

This year’s Labor Notes Conference (June 17-19, Chicago) will be one for the record books. About 4,000 people are coming—more than ever before—after a long wait. There’s plenty to celebrate this year, starting with phenomenal new organizing wins at Starbucks and Amazon. Dozens of shop floor organizers from both companies will be there, including plenary speakers Amazon Labor

A week after it emerged the US Supreme Court plans to overturn the pro-choice legal judgement Roe v. Wade, some analysis and reports from the US left. "They have the courts, we have the people" From Democratic Socialists of America

The last time I wrote in Labor Notes, I described the captive-audience “listening sessions” that Starbucks corporate had attempted to use against me and my co-workers who are trying to unionize our Hopewell Starbucks in central New Jersey. (See (“How We Turned the Tables on Starbucks Union-Busters,” March 2022.) After corporate failed spectacularly in our first one, they