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Aug 6, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Daniel Judt
Above photo: John Vachon. A century ago, labor colleges transformed American unions. It’s time to bring them back. In December of 1936, a day into their historic sit-down strike at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, autoworkers set up a school. Surrounded by idle machines, freed from the foreman’s gaze, they took classes in public speaking and labor journalism, in political economy, in the history of the labor movement. This was not a spontaneous idea.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
portside.org | Daniel Judt
Schools for Struggle: For a Workers’ Education Movement Published August 5, 2024 IN DECEMBER OF 1936, A DAY INTO THEIR HISTORIC SIT-DOWN STRIKE AT a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, autoworkers set up a school. Surrounded by idle machines, freed from the foreman's gaze, they took classes in public speaking and labor journalism, in political economy, in the history of the labor movement. This was not a spontaneous idea.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Judt
Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Dave Kamper |Keith Kelleher |Daniel Judt
Two and a half years in, Starbucks workers have made a breakthrough. Buried in the stilted prose of the announcement is a historic victory.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Keith Kelleher |Dave Kamper |Daniel Judt |Arlene Inouye
40 years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement. Forty years ago, Irma Sherman and the over 150 homecare workers employed by “McMaid” (Yes, McMaid really was the name of the company) decided they’d had enough of low wages and no benefits and began to organize their union with United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 880, a small, independent union founded by ACORN, the national community organization.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Keith Kelleher |Dave Kamper |Daniel Judt |Arlene Inouye
40 years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement. Forty years ago, Irma Sherman and the over 150 homecare workers employed by “McMaid” (Yes, McMaid really was the name of the company) decided they’d had enough of low wages and no benefits and began to organize their union with United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 880, a small, independent union founded by ACORN, the national community organization.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Dave Kamper |Daniel Judt |Arlene Inouye |Jennifer Johnson
We are United Smith Student Workers, a new union of undergraduate student dining-services workers at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Our process of forming one of the first unions for undergraduates has been long and complex and involved a lot of learning along the way. Most of us are first-time union members, and undergraduate unionism itself is still a relatively new frontier. But our experience is part of a much wider movement of student organizing.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
forgeorganizing.org | Dave Kamper |Daniel Judt |Arlene Inouye |Jennifer Johnson
In a monumental labor victory echoing the 1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike, the UAW's triumphant strike against top automakers marks a defining moment in modern labor history. When I was a kid, my church youth group in the summers would often go to a water park in Rockford, Illinois. To get there we’d take Interstate 90, and even now, I remember what it looked like when we drove past the Chrysler plant in Belvedere. Even on Sundays, that place was humming.
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Sep 3, 2023 | 
rebelion.org | Daniel Judt
La sorprendente victoria del candidato anticorrupción podría marcar una nueva temporada esperanzadora para el país. Pero sólo si se le permite tomar el poder y ejercerlo. En la noche del domingo, en la plaza central de Xela, Guatemala, una multitud de varios cientos de personas se reúne para ver los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales del país. Cuando la prensa anuncia el triunfo de Bernardo Arévalo, profesor universitario convertido en político anticorrupción, la multitud estalla.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Judt |Hasan Ali |Suchitra Vijayan |Tariq Kenney-Shawa
World / En español / La sorprendente victoria del candidato anticorrupción podría marcar una nueva temporada esperanzadora para el país. Pero sólo si se le permite tomar el poder y ejercerlo. Ad PolicyQuetzaltenango, Guatemala—En la noche del domingo, en la plaza central de Xela, Guatemala, una multitud de varios cientos de personas se reúne para ver los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales del país.
