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Chris Brooks is an organizer from Tennessee and a graduate of the labor studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently works as a staff writer at Labor Notes.
The nurses union-backed Question 1 would have established safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in Massachusetts — which is exactly why a hospital lobby group spent more than $30 million against it.
SEIU is looking for a new Silicon Valley-style innovation guru. But TED Talk wisdom is the last thing labor needs.
Uber has been given free rein to violate basic employment laws with impunity. We have to stop them.
In the wake of Janus, some union leaders are looking for a technical fix or a way to partner with the boss. It's a trap.
Tennessee unions' recent experiences show that writing off nonmembers rather than winning them over will not make the labor movement any more militant or successful.
If teachers' unions want to build off the momentum of the recent strikes, they cannot simply return to business as usual.
The union defeat at a South Carolina Boeing plant was devastating, but it wasn't inevitable. Labor can still organize the South.
2016 has seen both the soaring heights of labor's class-struggle left pole and the abject lows of its business-unionism right.
How the world's richest companies get local governments to hand over millions of dollars in exchange for crappy jobs and empty promises.