Labor


Waffle House Workers Fight Wage Theft

By Peoples’ Dispatch On the morning of Thursday, September 19, Waffle House workers from across Georgia converged at a Waffle House location in the town of Morrow to protest widespread theft of wages. A new…


Organizing The South

UE Local 150 Convention in Whitakers, NC By UE Local 150 With the slogan “Resist, Restore and Re­vit­alize!” the 13th Biennial Convention of state­wide UE Local 150 convened at the Frank­linton Center at Bricks on…


United for a Fair Economy

Supporting Durham City Workers’ Campaign for Fair Pay By Jen Douglas Durham city workers organizing with UE150—a member group of the UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC coalition —are out in the streets and testifying at City…


May Day 2028 Could Transform the Labor Movement

—and the World By Shawn Fain Members of the United Auto Workers courageously fought corporate greed at Ford, Gen­eral Motors and Stellantis last fall during the historic six-week Stand-Up Strike. Because of their determination and…


What If Labor Owned Its Workplaces?

An Interview with Alex Hemingway By David Moscrop Jacobin’s David Moscrop recently talked with Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist and public finance policy analyst Alex Hemingway about his new co­written report, Expanding Democratic…


Grocery Workers Challenge Union Bosses

The fight for a rank-and-file union By Hamilton Nolan On February 6, 1919, 25,000 Seattle workers from more than 100 different unions walked out in support of 35,000 striking shipyard workers. It was global news….


Tenants Organize State-Wide

By Greg Childress Two years ago, Crystal Towers residents in Winston-Salem successfully fought to prevent the sale of their public housing building, which is home to more than 200 low-income, elderly tenants. In Raleigh, Grosvenor…


UE Gaza Solidarity

Demand for ceasefire built on decades of membership education and debate By Carl Rosen Unions representing more than half of the U.S. labor movement have now called for a ceasefire in Gaza, as has the…


Our Class Has No Borders

Why the UAW Is Standing Up with Mexican Auto Workers By Brandon Mancilla The United Auto Workers announced February 23 that it will provide material support to Mexican auto workers organizing in the independent union…