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In the wake of the settlement of the grocery strike/lockout, the media have given us scores of sober assessments and “Monday morning quarterbacking” about the extent of the defeat and the UFCW’s piecemeal strategic approach.

The criticisms that rank-and-file grocery and warehouse workers...

Lance Compa's thoughtful response to my "Worker-Student Alliance" piece is much appreciated. It helps illuminate several of the issues I attempted to raise about the importance of rank-and-file leadership development as opposed to an organizer hiring strategy that bypasses experienced union...

In recent years, workers and unions have found it harder and harder to resist plant closings. But when the world’s largest producer of aluminum, Alcan, announced it was shutting down the Jonquière Soderburg smelter in Arvida, Québec, the 550 affected workers decided that they would not only...

Talks between the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the grocery chains they have been fighting in southern California for four months-Vons/Pavillions, Albertson, and Ralphs-stalled the week before Christmas.

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In Philadelphia, the birthplace of American democracy, a local union is embroiled in a battle over its own democratic processes.

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When workers in a union organizing drive take up the cause of building their union from the bottom up and confront management head-on, it can be the foundation for creating democratic and active local unions.

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