Tag: Labor
The UAW Needs a Strategy for the Future of Manufacturing
The corporate reversal on electric vehicle production is restructuring the US auto
industry and creating worker insecurity faster than the UAW can fight back. The long-standing
culture of collaboration between the union and corporations has been devastating to labor’s
power. Will the UAW reverse its decline by stepping up to fight over the future of manufacturing,
or continue to take a back seat to capital? Labor needs new strategies that take on
corporations on a class basis, focus fights on worker control alongside bread-and-butter issues,
and set a course for collectively controlled manufacturing that serves the working class.
Beyond the Labour Machine
A New Zealand dock workers’ union just did something no major union has done in a century: voted to affiliate with a socialist party alongside Labour.
The Minneapolis Uprising and After
Aminah Sheikh gives a powerful account of the roots and radicalism of Twin Cities’ victorious resistance and ongoing struggle against Trump’s ICE gestapo.
The Problem with the “Build the Wall” Left
Doug Hornstein argues against leftist support for immigration restriction by challenging their assumption that immigration hurts workers.
Service with a Scowl
Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan’s Beneath the Wage.
The Abolitionist Labor Politics of California’s Incarcerated Firefighters
Reflecting on the use of incarcerated firefighters today, Abby Cunniff takes a historical look on the radical politics of their counterparts in the 1970s.
Lessons from the Air Canada Strike
John Clarke argues for a rank-and-file movement to break combat back-to-work legislation.
Last Fair Deal in the Country
Jordy Cummings draws lessons from this year’s CUPE 3903 strike at York University in Toronto.
Canary in the Coal Mine
Cody Melcher reviews John Bardes’s The Carceral City and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs’s Prison Capital.
Higher-Education Bargaining with the “New” UAW
Aaron Berman reflects on using accreditation as leverage and the impact of the new UAW leadership on the Academic Student Workers’ strike at the New School.