Tag: Unions
The UAW Needs a Strategy for the Future of Manufacturing
The corporate reversal on electric vehicle production is restructuring the US auto
industry and creating worker insecurity faster than the UAW can fight back. The long-standing
culture of collaboration between the union and corporations has been devastating to labor’s
power. Will the UAW reverse its decline by stepping up to fight over the future of manufacturing,
or continue to take a back seat to capital? Labor needs new strategies that take on
corporations on a class basis, focus fights on worker control alongside bread-and-butter issues,
and set a course for collectively controlled manufacturing that serves the working class.
Beyond the Labour Machine
A New Zealand dock workers’ union just did something no major union has done in a century: voted to affiliate with a socialist party alongside Labour.
Worker Experiments in New Kinds of Politics
John Schultz challenges the “official history”‘s naturalization of the links between the Democratic Party and the labor movement. Turning to the historical record, Schultz argues the 1930s featured numerous worker experiments in independent labor politics.
Class Struggle in France in 2025
John Mullen analyzes the instability of French national politics and how Marxists and revolutionaries have the space to intervene in the France Insoumise.
Joint Statement by Independent Labor Organizations in Iran
Spectre statement regarding recent attacks on Iran followed by the Joint Statement by Independent Labor Organizations in Iran
Higher-Education Bargaining with the “New” UAW
Aaron Berman reflects on using accreditation as leverage and the impact of the new UAW leadership on the Academic Student Workers’ strike at the New School.
Lessons from the Rutgers Strike
Six months later, Rhiannon Maton draws lessons from the Rutgers strike.
Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power
Kim Moody writes about how we should understand the UAW strike against the backdrop of a larger wave.
Realizing Renewable Power’s Potential Means Combating Capital
Simon Pirani systematically takes on ecomodernist approaches to socialist strategy, which, he argues, are fundamentally antithetical to any left project.
“We Won!”: University Professors Strike in Québec City
This February, thirteen-hundred faculty members walked off the job at Québec City’s Université Laval for nearly five weeks, winning a number of concessions from the university including pay raises and improvements to faculty workloads. Rhiannon Maton interviews Nat Nesvaderani about life on the picket line and the lessons learned for future struggles.