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Many US labor activists consider soldiers the enemy, with good reason. Federal and state troops have been deployed again and again against rebellious workers; aside from the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the recurrent wars against native Americans, labor strife - whether strikes or genuine...

I agree with much of Stephen Lerner’s analysis of labor’s woes and inability to organize. Yes, we need to focus on economically rational targets, to mobilize allies, to work together, to get a vision. But some of Lerner’s solutions seem doomed to make matters worse: member swapping, massive...

For seven years, AFL-CIO leaders have jawboned unions to organize. The federation has directly funded more campaigns, helped train and recruit new organizers, and supported their work with abundant public relations-and still union membership declines. To address the crisis in organizing, the...

Union members braved the blistering cold and the tragic death of a picketer in mid-January to launch the first national strike against General Electric in three decades. The two-day strike targeted company plans to shift health care costs onto workers......

El 14 de diciembre, trabajadores de la limpieza de edificios en la región de Boston de SEIU Local 254, votaron por rechazar una propuesta de formar un nuevo local, así sorprendiendo a los administradores del local que habían avanzado el plan. Menos de 400 trabajadores de los 12,000 votaron; la...

Stephen Lerner is right in arguing that unions have diluted their strength by organizing haphazardly merely to gain members (and dues money) rather than organizing for power in their core jurisdictions. . . .

Steve Lerner has laid out a provocative and insightful challenge to all of us wrestling with how to reverse labor’s devastating decline. In fact, the crisis now is even worse than he has described. . . . .