What Is the Wagner Act and How Can It Help Workers?
The Wagner Act has protected American workers’ right to unionize for almost 90 years. Get to know this game-changing labor policy and what it means for you.
Amary Wiggin
July 6, 2023
Blog
Reflections on Organizing with 9to5
Debra Bergen reflects on her time with the working women’s organization 9to5 and its similarities to EWOC’s approach to organizing
Debra Bergen
May 30, 2023
The Scary S Word: Deconstructing America’s Red Scares
How the legacy of red scares affected the progress of the labor movement and the working class’s relation to class struggle
Ian Cooper-Smith
May 1, 2023
Police Unions: A Fraudulent Solidarity
Are police unions like other unions? Do they have a shared interest with other workers? Or are they an enemy of the working class?
Ian Cooper-Smith
March 6, 2023
Working Class Hero of the Week: Lucy Parsons
A look back on the life of Lucy Parsons, whose life was committed to advancing the struggle of the working class
Ian Cooper-Smith
February 6, 2023
How the Ruling Class Utilized “Whiteness” to Divide the Working Class
For centuries, the Bourgeois class has used the concept of “whiteness” to stoke racial conflict, divide the working class, and maintain the status quo.
Ian Cooper-Smith
January 9, 2023
Working-Class Hero of the Week: Angelo Herndon
During the height of the Great Depression, leftist organizer, Angelo Herndon united Black and white Workers in the Jim Crow South.
Ian Cooper-Smith
December 19, 2022
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
A major railroad strike in 1877, “the Great Upheaval,” kicked off one of the first nationwide worker uprisings in this country.
Ian Cooper-Smith
December 5, 2022
Workers are angry and quitting their Jobs. Should they consider striking for Union Recognition?
With millions of workers quitting bad jobs, and bosses scrambling to find employees, it may be time for workers to organize and strike for union recognition.
EWOC
October 18, 2021
‘We Took Care of Each Other’: A Maritime Union’s Hidden History of Gay-Straight and Interracial Solidarity
Decades before the modern LGBTQ+ movement, West Coast maritime workers organized against gay-bashing and red-baiting.
Jonathan Kissam
June 25, 2021
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