Labor Movement
Scabs Will Not Pass: Defend the UAW Strike With Organized Grassroots Power
The Big Three are escalating their use of scabs. The rank and file are fighting back.
Jason Koslowski
September 27, 2023Joe Biden Is Afraid of the UAW Strike. That’s a Good Thing.
A few days ago, Biden called on the bosses of the Big Three automakers to give concessions to the striking UAW workers. It’s because he’s scared of the UAW’s power.
Sybil Davis
September 20, 2023To Win, the UAW Strike Must Be Organized from Below
The strike at the Big Three has put the working class at the center of national politics. The autoworkers’ demands are bold and touch on issues of growing exploitation across the country. To win big, the strike must be organized from below.
Tristan Taylor
September 18, 2023UAW: The Contract Fight of Their Lives
With ambitious demands on the table and billions of dollars on the line for the Big Three, the UAW contract struggle is shaping up to be one of the most important and unprecedented labor actions in years.
Tristan Taylor
September 14, 2023The UAW Is Right: All Workers Deserve a Shorter Work Week AND Higher Wages
The current contract struggle at The Big Three and increasing automation in the auto industry raise an important question: How can we use technology to benefit the working class rather than feed the profits of the bosses?
Luigi Morris
September 14, 2023“Academia is in crisis, and it’s time for a change”: Interview with a Mount Sinai Hospital Postdoc
Mount Sinai hospital postdocs have voted by 91% to authorize a strike. Left Voice interviewed postdoctoral fellow Andrea Joseph about the union’s demands and the road ahead.
Raura Doreste
September 7, 2023The Time Is Right for a Strike at the Big Three
A strike by UAW workers at the Big Three, if joined by actors, writers, and flight attendants, would radicalize hundreds of thousands of workers, revealing their power and raising their expectations in ways that could have an outsized positive influence on the future of labor in the United States.
James Dennis Hoff
September 6, 2023A Power Restrained: Lessons From the Front Lines of the UPS Contract Struggle
While this contract has some important gains, a strike could have won much more, particularly for part timers.
Luigi Morris
August 27, 2023Exploitation in Storytelling: The Conditions of Manga Artists in Japan
Anime and Manga are popular forms of storytelling from Japan that are becoming more and more popular in the West. Here we observe the labor conditions of Manga authors themselves as well as the general labor conditions in Japan.
Carmin Maffea
August 14, 202310 Reasons UPS Workers Are Voting “No” on the Tentative Agreement
Not all UPS workers are happy with the tentative agreement. Here’s how the proposed contract falls short of what workers deserve and have the power to win.
Ben Douglass
August 11, 2023