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Masked people (Black and white, men and women) holding signs. Most prominent is a handwritten sign: "#Save the Post Office." Preprinted signs say "Stand with Postal Workers" and "Senators, do the right thing! Save USPS"

The Postmaster General’s New Attack on the Mail Is a Fig Leaf for Privatization »

May 7, 2021 | Dennis O’Neil

The battle over the future of the Postal Service, which was a focus of American political life last year, is still on.
Duke University Press Workers Union posing in matching black T-shirts on grass.

Duke University Press Workers Organize with NewsGuild »

May 4, 2021 | Joe Stapleton

Update May 5: The Duke University Press Workers Union officially filed for an election on May 3.—Eds
Crowd of teachers and supporters protesting in Amman in front of building, some with raised arms, on July 29 2020

Jordanian Teachers Union Leaves Behind Legacy of Wins »

May 3, 2021 | Ty Joplin

One of the Middle East’s most active and militant labor unions has come and gone.


The Jordan Teachers’ Syndicate (JTS) was outlawed and dissolved by the government in July 2020. It represented around 140,000 teachers in the small country of 10 million people.

Bingo balls in metal cage

Steward's Corner: Outwitting Management’s Anti-Union Games »

April 29, 2021 | Terrence T. McDonald

Amazon’s anti-union campaign in its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse shined a national spotlight on the tactics that companies deploy to fight union drives.

Can Postal Vehicles Help Us Fight Climate Change? »

April 28, 2021 | David Yao

The question of whether the Postal Service acts as a business or as a public service is playing out once again—this time in the discussion over fighting climate change.

TV Review: The Class Struggle at Superstore »

April 27, 2021 | Eric Dirnbach

The hit NBC show Superstore ran for six seasons before being cancelled after star America Ferrera departed.

Don’t Compromise on Farmworker Rights »

April 26, 2021 | Saurav Sarkar

I covered the immigrant “mega marches” as a freelance reporter in 2006.
Amazon van exiting a building, about to turn onto a city street, with pedestrian crossing in front

Interview: 'Things Shouldn't Be Like This': Why One Amazon Driver Walked Out on Easter »

April 23, 2021 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

Working conditions at Amazon have been under a spotlight for months—not only for workers in the company’s warehouses but also for its delivery drivers, who face

A group of people stands outside the St. Paul Labor Center, fists raised. It is dark out, and they are backlit.

The National Guard Came to St. Paul to Repress Protests. We Kicked Them Out of Labor’s Hall. »

April 21, 2021 | Anders Bloomquist

Within days of the police killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright, the streets of the Twin Cities metro area were once again filled with National Guard units.
Workers—in their soiled work clothes—line up to vote at a table in a 1941 union election.

Lessons from Labor History for Organizing Amazon »

April 19, 2021 | Toni Gilpin

The results of the recent unionization election at Amazon’s Bessemer facility were, to put it mildly, disappointing: 738 votes in favor of the union; 1,798 against; with turnout (perhaps as significant a marker) lackluster at just over 50 percent.

Inside the Alabama Amazon Union Drive: An Interview with the Lead Organizer »

April 17, 2021 | Luis Feliz Leon and Joshua Brewer

Everyone and their mother—including us!—has published an analysis of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union’s election loss April 9 in a celebrated union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Al

How We Turned Bargaining Around at Law360 »

April 16, 2021 | Juan Carlos Rodriguez and Dani Kass

[Yesterday NewsGuild members at Mashable, PC Mag, Ask Men, and Geek walked off the job for 24 hours, part of their ongoing fight for a first contract two years after the publications' parent company, ZiffDavis, agreed to recognize their union.

China: Leader of Delivery Riders Alliance Detained, Solidarity Movement Repressed »

April 15, 2021 | Karl Hu

On February 25 “Mengzhu,” a well-known food delivery worker activist, was detained by Beijing police in a raid on the group apartment where he lives with other delivery workers. Four of them were also detained.

The BAmazon Loss and the Road Ahead »

April 14, 2021 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

What can union activists across the country take away from the high-profile defeat in the union vote at Amazon in Alabama?
Two nurses hold a green St. Patrick's Day banner that reads "And the righteous did cast out the evil from the land." The banner pictures a group of nurses chasing off a snake labeled Tenet.

Massachusetts Nurses Face Down For-Profit Health Care Giant Tenet in Daring Strike »

April 13, 2021 | Sarah Hughes

On the same day that their employer announced it had made more than $400 million in profits during the Covid-19 pandemic, the nurses of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, declared their intention to strike.

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