As New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have a range of options to encourage large numbers of workers to unionize — essential both for improving working-class living standards in an unaffordable city and building an organized force to win his agenda.
At a time of severe austerity, Spain has made key progressive advances. We spoke to labor minister Yolanda Díaz about her government’s attempts to bolster labor rights, fight climate change, and how the Left needs to build social movements beyond party structures.
Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein on why today’s union activists should look to the example of North Carolina black and white tobacco workers, who organized a union and went on strike in the teeth of the Jim Crow South.
Despite high-profile organizing drives at Starbucks and elsewhere, the latest numbers show that union membership is still shrinking as a percentage of the workforce. Unions will have to massively scale up new organizing to counter the brute might of capital.
This summer could see 350,000 UPS workers walk off the job in the United States’ largest strike in decades. The Teamsters are getting ready. Here’s a look at how.
A century ago, universities were hotbeds of reaction, and Ivy League undergraduates would leave class to break strikes. The Left has now built a base within the academy, but without ties to organized labor, these movements will achieve little.
Last month, Blue Bottle Coffee workers at six cafés in the Boston area voted overwhelmingly to unionize. Jacobin spoke with three Blue Bottle workers about their organizing drive.
Following the lead of Starbucks workers, employees at board game cafés across New York City unionized in 2023 as Tabletop Workers United. After impressive shows of customer support and a credible strike threat, TWU has just won its first tentative agreement.
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence. Their success could help millions of workers.
With a number of cases now working their way through US courts, the Right is hoping the Supreme Court will scrap central elements of labor law. Unions need to prepare for this outcome, which would create a dramatically different strategic terrain for labor.
The Chicago teachers’ strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement that could ignite a shift in public policy?
Today's Republican extremism owes more to the Constitution that established the Union than the secessionists who sundered it. It's Hoover's party — and Madison's — not Calhoun's.
Spain's Marinaleda may not quite be a utopia, but it beats “reality” hands-down.
Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic trilogy sees localized resistance to a dystopian future.
Scotland’s Yes campaign has been a bright spot for the Left. But will independence really challenge neoliberalism?
The dependence of the poor on payday loans is neither natural nor inevitable. It is the result of neoliberal policies.
The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.
The same companies that oppose North Carolina's bathroom bill bankroll the politicians who passed it.
Obama's labor board failed to protect union salts. Now union busters can go back on the attack.