Militancy

We Can’t Rebuild The Labor Movement Without Taking On Big Targets

October 23, 2025 Kate Bronfenbrenner, Labor Notes. Organize! Labor Movement, Militancy, Unions, Worker Rights

Last year, U.S. unions cautiously celebrated a turnaround in their organizing fortunes. National Labor Relations Board election win rates had reached 79 percent, and the number of workers organized for the year approached 100,000, the highest number since 2009. Yet these gains masked a harsher reality for labor, even before the disastrous 2024 elections. For the labor movement to grow, it needs to organize millions of workers each year, not 100,000. Organizing continues to lag in fast-growing, low-density sectors such as personal services, IT, finance, and health care, while union-heavy sectors like government and manufacturing keep shedding jobs.

Answers To Trump’s Anti-Worker Shutdown: Solidarity, Labor Militancy

October 11, 2025 Conor Lynch, In These Times. Strategize! Labor Movement, Militancy, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Trump Administration, Worker Rights and Jobs

A palpable sense of dread gripped many federal employees last week as the government inched closer to a shutdown and the Trump administration explicitly threatened to carry out another round of mass layoffs, effectively turning civil servants into bargaining chips. After eight months of periodic purges that began with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the “never-ending nightmare” that federal workers have been through this year shows no signs of waning, with Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget director, apparently seeing the shutdown as a perfect opportunity to inflict more trauma on “deep state” employees. With the shutdown now in full swing, Vought has promised that the White House will begin firing federal employees within “a day or two.”

You Have To Shake Up The Status Quo

January 11, 2025 Sarah Jaffe, In These Times. Organize! AFL-CIO, Labor Movement, Marilyn Sneiderman, Militancy, Worker Rights

Marilyn Sneiderman has her baby pink Teamsters jacket framed on her living room wall. You’ve seen this kind of jacket before, if not in that color — satin with the big union logo on the back, the Teamster twin horse heads over a wagon wheel. But when Sneiderman was hired as the education director for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the early 1990s, under the reform leadership of Ron Carey, she was one of few women in power. The pink jacket is, in a way, a symbol of her entire career in the labor movement.

The Hidden Story Of Britain’s Anti-Apartheid Militants

December 2, 2024 Marcus Barnett, Jacobin. Strategize! Apartheid, Militancy, Solidarity, South Africa, United Kingdom (UK)

At an East London cinema last summer, several dozen people in their late sixties and early seventies took to the stage. After being beckoned forwards by the compere, the veteran South African revolutionary Ronnie Kasrils, the shying group of mostly retirees received repeated standing ovations from loved ones, politicians, and diplomats filling out the private screening. Afterward, they chatted at the cinema bar and signed pamphlets and books, while their proud children and grandchildren took selfies with the actors who had portrayed their family members in the film they had just enjoyed.

UPS Teamsters Union Struggle Is Critical For All Workers

June 28, 2023 Gavrielle Gemma, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Labor Movement, Militancy, Strikes, Unions, UPS, Worker Rights and Jobs

340,000 workers, members of the Teamsters Union, worked tirelessly during the worst of the COVID pandemic. Despite exhaustion from overwork, disease, and family tragedies, they saved lives by delivering packages to those quarantined. Meanwhile, bosses at UPS lived in luxury as profits soared to $56.3 billion from 2019 to 2023. In 2023 alone, UPS says it will spend $3 billion in stock buybacks and $5.4 billion in dividends. Every penny of that profit is due to the labor of the workers. The current contract expires in less than five weeks. Every day the company delays making a realistic offer to the union, the closer workers come to a strike authorized by 97% of the rank-and-file who voted.

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