Labor

Reformers in the United Auto Workers are jubilant as they seem set to make a historic change in the top leadership of their union, ending 70 years of one-party top-down rule.

The UAW’s longtime leadership is corrupt and undemocratic. In the union’s first-ever direct leadership election, a reform movement has a vision for change.

UPS Teamsters face a big contract fight next year. With the opening created by new union leadership, socialists can help them win.

Unionization campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks show that we might just be living through the start of a new wave of worker organizing. Socialists need to go all in.

Decades-long union democracy fights have just won big in the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers, creating big opportunities for socialists.

We need the combined power of labor law reform and militant unions to rebuild workers’ power.

The conditions that made workers in Bessemer fight back aren’t going away. Some workers want the powerful to feel what it means to have power wielded against them.

It’s important for socialists to be on the shop floor. It’s easy for members to get angry at “the hall,” but a union is only strong when it’s member-run.

Get a union job you enjoy, one you can do for a long time. There will be ups and downs.