David Weigel: Sanders: DNC Vetoed Union Leader Pick for Platform Committee

Sanders revealed that the DNC had actually vetoed his nomination of a key labor ally, and said he was told not to pick anyone else from the labor movement

Sue Sturgis: The human rights crisis in Music City’s booming hotel industry

The hospitality industry is booming in the tourist center of Nashville, Tennessee, with 39 hotels currently under development, according to Nashville Business Journal’s Crane Watch. Most of the hotels being built are either upscale or upper midscale. But the people who do the hard and sometimes dangerous work of keeping Music City’s hotels clean — Read more…

Various Contributors: Big Gains for Striking Verizon Workers in New Agreement

Company agrees to add 1,300 new call center jobs on the East Coast, 10.9% raise over four years, first contract for wireless retail workers

Chris Brooks: Long-Term Organizing Bears Fruit for Grocery Local

“We do everything in our power to show the employer that we aren’t going to rest and they won’t catch us off guard”

Paul Buhle: Labor’s Sell-Out and the Sanders Campaign

Rebelliously democratic union locals and a handful of internationals offer an alternative to the slow death of American unionism

Alex Gourevitch: Chronicle of a Strike

Verizon strikers are fighting against the oppression and indignity of the American workplace

Steve Early: Left Cover for Hoffa? The Rise and Fall of a Model Teamsters Local

Review of Fighting For Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working Class Citizenship, by Bob Bussel

Shaun Richman: One Day Longer

The Verizon strike is a war of attrition — and the future of the labor movement is at stake

Sonia Singh: L.A. Car Wash Workers Turn Up Pressure

In Juan Hernandez’s first car wash job, he and his co-workers used to put in nine-hour days for $40 in cash. Workers would often arrive at 8 a.m.—but have to wait three or four hours to start working, with no fixed schedule. “When I began to work in this industry, there was practically no control Read more…

Pete Dolack: We all pay for low wages

The relentless scramble to survive competition eventually closed the brief window when rising wages were tolerated and government investment encouraged

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