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Jane McAlevey's Vision for the Future of Labor June 12, 2020
On Monday, January 14, 2019, Los Angeles’s thirty-four thousand public-school teachers went on strike. They demanded smaller classes (classrooms had as many as forty-six students), a full-time nurse in every school, modest pay increases, and a cap on...
The Past and Future of the American Strike March 21, 2019
I played a pretty big role in a labor fight noted in Erik Loomis's entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued new book, A History of America in Ten Strikes. Back in the day, I was a “comprehensive campaign” guy—the newish strategic paradigm t...
America's Missing Labor Party October 12, 2018
For nearly half a century, an air of inevitability has clung to the decline of the American labor movement. As union density has fallen to near 10 percent and strike activity has reached historic lows, labor has often fumbled in its response to polit...
