Another rowdy student group recently took over an Ivy League school, driven by outside agitators who neither attend nor care about the university’s success. But these students weren’t advocating for a ...

Tanner Fischer leads a rally of UPS workers in Des Moines, Iowa. (Courtesy of Tanner Fischer) This article is a joint publication of The Nation and Workday Magazine, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to ...

Authoritarian regimes make crushing unions a top priority for a reason: Strong, independent unions are the best safeguard against tyranny. Dozens of Starbucks employees and union supporters protested ...

There is a lot of talk about former President Donald Trump being a threat to democracy. However, I wonder if public sector union bosses are the real threat to democracy. We elect governors, mayors, ...

The first weekend of November 2023, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) held its annual convention at a hotel near O’Hare Airport outside of Chicago. It was the 48 th convention since the ...

Last fall, all members of Local 1459 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) in Western Massachusetts received a peculiar letter. All that Iris Scott, a shift leader and union shop steward at ...

On May 17, Jacobin magazine reposted an article from Labor Notes titled “UFCW Members Didn’t Get to Pick Their New President.” The article, written by Lisa Xu, addresses the anti-democratic manner in ...

“I see a future where we defend democracy, not diminish it,” President Biden said Thursday night. “I see a future where we restore the right to choose and protect other freedoms, not take them away.” ...

The Lagos State Council of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has accused the union’s national leadership of undermining internal democracy, alleging a deliberate attempt to impose leadership on the state ...