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Dec 9, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Barry Eidlin
In the fall of 2023, something unusual happened in the world of labor negotiations: unions representing the Big Three autoworkers in both the United States and Canada negotiated their contracts at the same time. Aside from a contract reopener as part of the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing auto industry bailout, it was the first time since 1999 that this had happened. Most Jacobin readers likely remember how those negotiations unfolded in the United States.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Barry Eidlin
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Barry Eidlin
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
portside.org | Barry Eidlin
Will the Labor Upsurge Find Its Political Voice? Published September 1, 2024 One of the more interesting sideshows in a US presidential campaign that has not lacked for drama and surprise has been candidate Donald Trump’s growing obsession with United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Barry Eidlin
One of the more interesting sideshows in a US presidential campaign that has not lacked for drama and surprise has been candidate Donald Trump’s growing obsession with United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Barry Eidlin
One of the more interesting sideshows in a US presidential campaign that has not lacked for drama and surprise has been candidate Donald Trump’s growing obsession with United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
montrealgazette.com | Walter Buchignani |Barry Eidlin
The work teaching assistants do is essential to McGill. It deserves to be given more recognition and value. Author of the article: • Special to Montreal Gazette • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentMy students are on strike. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
dollarsandsense.org | Barry Eidlin
A massive strike wave made serious gains,
but it left many workers wanting more.
This article is from Dollars & Sense: Real World Economics, available at http://www.dollarsandsense.orgThis article is from the May/June 2024 issue.
Workers across the United States rediscovered the strike weapon last year.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
barryeidlin.org | Barry Eidlin
As I write this, on Saturday, March 23, our administration at McGill University has notified us that we should expect a strike by our teaching assistants, represented by AGSEM (Association of Graduate Student Employees at McGill), starting on Monday, March 25, at 7:00 a.m. Negotiations have been ongoing since September, but the administration has been dragging its feet, barely moving off most of its key bargaining positions.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Barry Eidlin
This article was originally published by Dollars & Sense. 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 forty-eighth convention since the rank-and-file union reform movement’s founding in 1976. The mood was confident and upbeat, with organizers announcing an attendance of five hundred Teamster members from across the country. It was the largest TDU convention since 1997.
