Workers of the World Unite (At Last)
By Ronaldo Munck, Mention the labor movement today, and activists might ask, “What movement?” Indeed, the vibrant lab
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The Brief Origins of May Day
Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many oth
Laurentian University Faculty on Strike
The Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) has been working hard to negotiate a fair collective agreement
New Book: Unions and the City – Negotiating Urban Change
Edited by Ian Thomas MacDonald. From ILR Press: Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in ma
LaborNotes: Building an Army to Fight Runaway Inequality
How can unions help create a social movement to take on Wall Street’s economic and political dominance? That’s t
EPI: Unions help narrow the gender wage gap
Tuesday, April 4th is Equal Pay Day— the day that marks when a typical woman’s earnings catch up to what a man earned in the
New Book by James Young: Union Power – The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
From Monthly Review Press: If you’re lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there’s about a one-in-ten
New Book: Against Labor – How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
From University of Illinois Press: Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselv
Henry Heller & Radhika Desai on the UMFA strike settlement at U of Manitoba
By Henry Heller, Radhika Desai As one of us wrote in these pages a few weeks ago, the recent University of Manitoba Facul
The U.S. Working Class Has a Radical History
Sharon Smith, Haymarket Books author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United State
EPI: Union decline lowers wages of nonunion US workers
Executive summary: Pay for private-sector workers has barely budged over the past three and a half decades. In fact, fo
Radhika Desai on University of Manitoba Strike
By Radhika Desai, As I walk the picket lines with my colleagues, still strongly supporting the strike in its second week
'Soul of the university' on the line with U of M strike
While teachers continue to walk the picket line, a professor in the Department of Philosophy says the “soul of th
Save the UMass Amherst Labor Center: Sign the Petition!
In the past year, UMass administrators have eliminated all funding for graduate students (including teaching and res
Faculty Are Locked Out at LIU Brooklyn
From The Nation, In April, the union and the administration began negotiating a new contract to replace the one set to ex
UMass-Amherst preparing to abolish Labor Center
From Michael D. Yates: This letter is from Eve Weinbaum, Director of the Labor Center at UMass-Amherst. She writes abou
Graduate Students Clear Hurdle to Form Unions
From New York Times: Students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities will be allowed to v
In Historic NLRB Ruling, Temps Win the Right To Join Unions
A new ruling will enable temporary and permanent employees to come together to negotiate with their bosses in mixed b
A Message to CUNY Adjuncts, Part-timers and other Exploited Faculty on the Occasion of the Proposed Contract
By Andy Battle Dear Adjuncts, Part-timers and other Exploited Faculty: I write to you because we are in a special time. Y