Beware the Quick Fix
In the wake of Janus, some union leaders are looking for a technical fix or a way to partner with the boss. It’s a trap.
30 Article(s) by: Chris Brooks
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Chris Brooks is a veteran labor organizer and strategist focused on building militant, member-led unions. He is a columnist at Jacobin.
The Danger of Members-Only Unionism
Tennessee unions’ recent experiences show that writing off nonmembers rather than winning them over will not make the labor movement any more militant or successful.
After the Wave
If teachers’ unions want to build off the momentum of the recent strikes, they cannot simply return to business as usual.
Labor and the Long Seventies
In the tumultuous 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the country — and employers launched a fierce counter-attack.
Against “Buy American”
“Buy American” campaigns have historically done more to intensify xenophobia than improve workers’ conditions.
It’s Not Over
The union defeat at a South Carolina Boeing plant was devastating, but it wasn’t inevitable. Labor can still organize the South.
Organizing Labor’s Left Pole
2016 has seen both the soaring heights of labor’s class-struggle left pole and the abject lows of its business-unionism right.
Money for Nothing
How the world’s richest companies get local governments to hand over millions of dollars in exchange for crappy jobs and empty promises.
Defending Labor’s School
The University of Massachusetts Labor Center has served generations of union activists. Now the administration wants to squeeze it out.
New Economy, Old Organizing
The perils of the “gig economy” have been overblown. Changes in work have the potential to open up new opportunities for labor.