Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor Before World War I
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass Canandaigua, New York 1857 When I was…
Washington Post Columnist Charles Lane Wants Auto Workers to Lose Their Jobs
By Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) The Washington Post has a long history of hating on powerful unions, like the United Auto Workers (UAW), or…
Ralph Nader: Good News — Big Opportunities on the Horizon
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org In the midst of so much bad news in the media, it is always good to be alert to rays of sunlight that civic action…
Mexican Auto Parts Workers Face Blacklist After Union Campaign
By Charlie Saperstein and Dan DiMaggio / Labor Notes In August 2022, auto parts workers at VU Manufacturing won a landmark election to gain recognition for a new independent union,…
UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a ‘Contemporary Form of Slavery’
One of the U.N. experts who compiled the report after visiting the U.S. earlier this year said its findings "point to the critical need for comprehensive reform."
‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike
By Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter / Labor Notes The strike is on. Last night the Auto Workers (UAW) shut down three major assembly plants at…
America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again
UAW activists years ago helped usher in a vastly more equal society. Can history repeat?
UAW Strike Puts Massive CEO-Worker Pay Gap in the Spotlight
"The CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases in the last four years alone," United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said from the picket line. "And they want to call us…
What’s ‘Realistic,’ What’s ‘Disturbing’?
How Entertainment Trade Magazines Spin the WGA, SAG-AFTRA Strikes.
86 Cents For a Day of Work Is a Reality For Most Incarcerated People
Incarcerated laborers are often left out of workers’ rights efforts, but they are vastly underpaid, underprotected, and unable to save for a life beyond bars.
Mandatory Overtime Is Inhumane and Dangerous
Mill workers are battling harder than ever against overtime requirements that strain families and put lives at risk.
Los Angeles Hotel Workers Turn Up Media Pressure Amid Boycott Efforts
When one conference declined to cancel, a union walkout helped drive other concessions.
Don’t Blame My Fellow Retail Workers for Poor Service — Blame Our CEOs
New data shows big retailers have the cash to hire more workers and pay them well. They just spend it on stocks and CEOs instead.
How the Media Turns Migrants Into Monsters
As long as the U.S. continues to manufacture conditions ripe for mass migration in Latin America, news readers must come to grips with how today’s journalism coaxes Americans into hating…
South Korea’s War on Unions Has Geopolitical Implications
Biden has embraced deeply unpopular President Yoon Seok Yeol for his pro-US policies, willfully ignoring South Korea’s brutal crackdown on labor and its human rights implications.