Terry Mogilles, a registered nurse at University Medical Center, speaks to the crowd at Union Migrante May Day event in downtown New Orleans on May 1, 2025. Earlier in the day, Mogilles and other ...

Labor’s decline over the past half century has devastated working-class communities, undermined democracy, and deepened the grip of big business over our work lives, our political system, and our ...

How can unions adapt to a new landscape of work? If you’re looking for a bright spot in today’s political and social gloom, the union idea seems to be it. Organized labor has rarely been more popular: ...

Tens of millions of workers in the United States want a union at their workplace, but do not have one. This unfortunate state of affairs is normally blamed on external obstacles such as our country’s ...

Union density has been in sharp decline since the 1970s and recently reached a low at 9.9 percent in 2024. Despite a recent uptick in union elections and increased enthusiasm for the labor movement ...

Can labor organizers transform a moment into a movement? An organizing conversation often features an “ask,” a question encouraging a fellow worker to commit to some form of collective action. Still, ...

Authoritarian regimes make crushing unions a top priority for a reason: Strong, independent unions are the best safeguard against tyranny. Dozens of Starbucks employees and union supporters protested ...

In the fall of 2020, I returned to Buffalo, New York, after a brief stint in grad school in the United Kingdom. The pandemic was in full swing, many of the restaurants and cafes I'd been helping ...

The National Labor Relations Board released new rules Friday that will speed up workplace organizing elections. The changes, long sought by unions, will limit the ability of employers to persuade ...

When ICE comes to your workplace, it can be over before you know it. Because they know that the community is opposed to them, ICE has adapted their tactics to be sneaky and fast. That’s why we need to ...

Discussion document by a member. Not a representation of the GDC or Twin Cities GDC Branch official positions. The Industrial Workers of the World is much larger and more prominent than the General ...