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Strikes are way up. Union approval is at a 57-year high. And yet as a percent of the workforce unions are at the lowest level since the '20s.

A new increase on member union fees would bring in an estimated $11 million per year, all of it earmarked for organizing.

Republished from the US rank-and-file trade union network and publication Labor Notes. This year Labor Notes held its biggest ever conference, with over 4,000 people in attendance. The video from the opening rally is well worth a watch.

Republished from the US rank-and-file trade union network and publication Labor Notes. This year Labor Notes held its biggest ever conference, with over 4,000 people in attendance. The video from the opening rally is well worth a watch.

The rare planetary alignment in mid-June was accompanied by the equally rare alignment of the AFL-CIO convention and the Labor Notes conference. It’s not often there is the opportunity for such direct comparison of the top leadership and activist base of the labor movement. The AFL-CIO met from June 12-15 in Philadelphia. The theme of the convention was “Organize and Rise.”

Two quite different labor meetings have taken place this month. The labor bureaucracy organized one. Rank-and-file workers were at the center of the other.

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Liz Shuler, the federation’s president, announces effort to increase membership by 1m but some say they ‘have to aim much higher’

PHILADELPHIA—AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, formally elected to her first full term in office, has set a goal to “grow our movement by more than one million working people” in a decade.

PHILADELPHIA—AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, formally elected to her first full term in office, has set a goal to “grow our movement by more than one million working people” in a decade.