Tag: Unions
Dispatches
Operating a Train in a Pandemic
Josh Fradistern, a New York transit worker, explains the limits of TWU’s conciliatory leadership and advocates a rank-and-file approach as the only way for workers to survive the pandemic.
Josh Fraidstern
May 1, 2020
Capitalism
My Fight as a Worker and as a Feminist During COVID-19
The pandemic has highlighted the contradictions between production and social reproduction, making both the various forms of oppression and the cracks in the system more apparent. Maddelena Manca tells the story of women workers who, in addition to facing the choice between health and work, have to carry the burden of domestic labor and childcare.
Maddalena Manca
April 28, 2020
Elections
Learning from Las Vegas
Alex Doris discusses Bernie Sanders victory in Nevada’s Democractic Party primary in terms of the Culinary union there, health care, “fortress unionism,” mass COIVD-19 layoffs. and their lessons for the left.
Alex Doris
April 20, 2020