A union can work in this business, and other industries have proven it. By Tim Colwill.

Norma Rae was a lie. By Nick Martin.

The unions — all except one — argued that Bob McCulloch’s longtime support of organized labor deserved loyalty. By Aída Chávez, Ryan Grim.

The court ruled that government workers cannot be required to pay for collective bargaining, which could cost public unions tens of millions of dollars.

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether employers can lawfully require workers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements that include class and collective action waivers. By Heidi Shierholz and Celine McNicholas.

The notorious union-busting agency has resurfaced in a telecommunications labor dispute, revealing how it has adapted to the 21st century. By Sarah Jones.

As a worker in freight and a Teamster, I found the book extremely valuable in explaining how the employers colluded with each other and the federal government to create a new system of labor control that depressed wages and drove the union out of most of the trucking industry. By Ryan Haney, Teamsters Local 745 in Dallas, Texas. (Oct. 2, 2017)

West Virginia teachers are engaged in an inspiring illegal strike. They’re also showing why we desperately need Medicare for All. By Meagan Day.

West Virginia has been the site of mass labor militancy many times before. Here are some of the highlights. By Branko Marcetic.

It's the site of the nation’s single largest armed uprising since the Civil War and its most violent labor insurrection. And coal companies are trying to erase that history. By Ron Soodalter. (Jan. 31, 2018)

The US left has a fundamental problem, perhaps the root of most of its other problems. That fundamental problem is that the US left is not organized as or led by any class conscious or class oriented formations. Union membership is somewhere around 5% of the workforce, and major unions have long been captured by the Democratic party. By Bruce A. Dixon.

DNAinfo and Gothamist weren’t shuttered because of money. They were shut down because they unionized. By Hamilton Nolan.

The privatizers say that “education is the civil rights issue of our time,” and they present themselves as crusaders for civil rights when they demand that teachers be fired, public schools closed, and that privately managed charter schools and vouchers be provided. By Diane Ravitch.

In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead. By David Krugler.

Dolores Huerta, a largely unsung hero in the fight for farmworkers’ rights, is the subject of the new movie, Dolores, that recounts her life as a feminist and union organizer, report Dennis J Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina.

“I had only been in West Virginia for a day when Josh Sword, the head of the state AFL-CIO, told me casually that a revolution is coming. He is not a particularly radical guy…” By Hamilton Nolan.

As a powerful grassroots movement emerges, some want to use it for their own gain. The history of the Tea Party has important lessons on how to avoid that. By Thomas Frank.

A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg. By Sarah Leonard and Rebecca Rojer.

Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? By Monte Reel.

Fight for $15 chapter in Memphis alleges that officers engaged in surveillance and intimidation of fast-food worker organization. By Dominic Rushe.