The Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has won a remarkable level of economic security for its 40,000 members. Shaun Richman joins New Labor Forum Editor Chris Maisano to talk about how New York's hotel worke

The civil rights movement’s commitment to nonviolence wasn’t just moral but also strategic, based on a calculation of how the movement could best exert power. No practitioner of that nonviolence was m...

How do we know where, when, and for how long strikes and other labor actions happen in the U.S.? Since 2021, the Labor Action Tracker has been the only comprehensive database of strikes and other work

The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the 2026 primary elections can’t be so easily dismi...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

Labour lost many seats and councils to Reform in the recent UK local elections, leading many to assume that they lost many voters to Nigel Farage’s far-right party. But a look at the data suggests thi...

The forthcoming UAW election will constitute more than a referendum on the Fain leadership. It will be a token of the hopes and frustrations of US workers.

Report using research from senior Blair and Clinton pollster comes as Labour braces for dismal election results

The ruling party is being outflanked by populists on the left and right. The consequences could change British politics for good

What can the UAW’s efforts to scale up new organizing efforts teach the rest of the labor movement? Former UAW chief of staff Chris Brooks shares his reflections on organizing in higher education and

Workers have been central actors in the struggle to achieve democracy in Iran in the face of domestic repression and foreign intervention.

The key challenge we face is scaling up our wins. But what we’re scaling up matters.

The United Auto Workers’ 2023 Stand Up Strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis delivered historic gains for our members. But just as significant is what came next. Before the strike even e...

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