Category: Labor

LIBERATING THE FUTURE: 3-25 Virtual Panel and Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Jobs, Peace, and The Way Forward!

What will the future look like?  Who gets to decide? We’re living through extremely difficult and uncertain times.  The issues we now face are the predictable culmination of unrestricted neoliberalism, imperialism, corporate greed and impunity, the steady erosion of investment in public welfare, and the entrenchment of power and privilege along class lines: one set… Read More LIBERATING THE FUTURE: 3-25 Virtual Panel and Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Jobs, Peace, and The Way Forward!

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Don’t Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans

New Orleans is a city shaped by the labor, artistry, and resilience of Black workers. Their contributions are not only foundational to the city’s infrastructure and economy, but also to its vibrant cultural identity. In November 2025 I had the opportunity to visit the art exhibit—”Don’t Stand Alone”— which invites the public to engage with the… Read More Don’t Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans

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Review of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, ILR Press, 2022

by Trudy Goldberg According to Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, our future would be a lot brighter and our democracy much healthier if collective bargaining were much more widespread and applied to economic encounters beyond the workplace.  Smiley is Executive Director of Jobs with Justice, and Gupta is currently the Ford Foundation’s Vice President of… Read More Review of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, ILR Press, 2022

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Reports of Its Demise Exaggerated?

By Trudy Goldberg Review of:  William E. Scheuerman, A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2021. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheuerman explains why the American labor movement declined precipitously in the last 65 years and analyzes the strategies and achievements… Read More Reports of Its Demise Exaggerated?

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