Volume 35, Issue 1, Winter 2026 Contents From the Editorial Team Kent Wong: Educator, Organizer, Visionary 1956-2025  By Gregory Mantsios UAW to Labor: Go Big or Go […]

Shawn Fain's UAW Is Facing Strong Headwinds Official White House portrait of UAW President Shawn Fain. Photo: Official White House Photo by Erin Scott Editor’s Note: This article […]

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Adopting Demands for May Day 2026 ResolutionThe following passed by those assembled at the April 21, 2026 Graduate Center Chapter meeting: Adopting Demands for May Day 2026 Whereas, International Workers Day (May 1) is both a commemoration of past workers’ struggles and a day of action and struggle for workers around the world; Whereas, the PSC-CUNY is mobilizing this May 1 with coalition partners including the NY Central Labor Council, the New York Immigration Coalition under the slogan “We will not be silent while immigrant New Yorkers are terrorized.” Whereas, the Trump administration continues to attack and oppress working people in the United States and around the world with physical, economic, and political violence; Whereas, we recognize that the Trump administration’s current attacks on immigrants are but an escalation and extension of the U.S. government’s long history of oppression of immigrants as an underclass of residents; Whereas, our union has a proud anti-war tradition in solidarity with the international working class; Whereas, the PSC-CUNY Executive Council issued a statement condemning the US war in Iran; Whereas, our colleagues known as the Fired Four were fired in an act of political retaliation for their pro-Palestine stances and activism as part of a neo-McCarythist offensive at all levels of government and educational institutions; Whereas, one of the Fired Four has still not been reinstated to her position; Whereas, we recognize the robust connections between CUNY-wide, city-wide, national, and international politics; therefore, be it Resolved, that the assembled members of the Graduate Center and Professional Schools chapter of the Professional Staff Congress support mobilizing as many people as we can on May Day and marching as part of the PSC contingent with the following slogans: ● Down with the US imperialism in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine ● Full rights for immigrants and international students ● Re […] “Adopting Demands for May Day 2026 Resolution”

Labor and the Struggle for Iranian Democracy Riot police against protesters in Tehranpars, 2019. Photo: Mehr News Agency, CC 4.0 International License For Iranian people who imagine a […]

It's All About the Leaders: Manufacturing Wins in the UAW The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) recent organizing breakthroughs in auto manufacturing in the South, major nationwide strikes, and decisive c […]

Cesar Chavez Revelations Show It’s Time for Truth and Reconciliation in the Labor MovementReports that Cesar Chavez sexually abused girls and women while building the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) into one of the most celebrated and […]

“I Built That Building”: The Working Life of a GlazierFor this article, New Labor Forum contributor Peter Lucas interviewed Charles Anderson, a field superintendent for Walters & Wolf in Southern […]

From “Right-to-Work” to “No-Right-to-Exist”: Florida Public Education Sector Unions in an Age of Authoritarianism Editor’s Note This article appears as SB 1296 makes its way through the Florida Senate this month. SB 1296, which requires 50% of a bargaining […]

How New York Unions Can Rebuild under Mayor Zohran MamdaniIn June 2025, Zohran Mamdani shocked the political establishment when he, as a little-known state assemblymember, won the Democratic primary for […]

Seizing the Moment: Lessons from the Front Lines of the UAW’s Fight to Scale Up The United Auto Workers’ 2023 Stand Up Strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis delivered historic gains for our members. But just as s […]

Is Labor at the Point of No Return? Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism. It’s arithmetic. Private sec […]

Morally Bankrupt: The Dollar System After American Legitimacy Credit: Mackenzie Marco, Unsplash American hegemony is in crisis. Since World War II, the coercive powers of Wall Street and the […]

Reclaiming May Day for a Working-Class Fightback Caption: A crowd at a union rally on August 16, 2024, as UAW Local 2300 was in the middle of contract negotiations with Cornell […]

Kent Wong: Educator, Organizer, Visionary 1956-2025 Caption: Kent Wong pictured in front of the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California. Credit: Sam […]

Volume 34, Issue 3, Fall 2025 Contents Can Trump’s GOP Make a Home for the Working Class? Does “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future? By Chris Maisano How the Democ […]

Know Your Weingarten Rights Flyer Please save, use and distribute this flyer on Weingarten Rights created by GC member Aliqae Geraci:

The Labor Movement Must Call the Question on Medicare Privatization Caption: Seniors and retirees protest cuts to Medicare, July 13, 2023. Credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit The passage of […]

Moving Beyond Free Trade and Protectionism: Tariffs Then and Now Caption: Bahamas flag container ship, Myriad, Iyo Nada, Seto Naikai, Japan. February 23, 2023. Credit: EZEK, Flickr Trade policy has […]

“You’re Terminated”: Under Siege at the DOEEditor’s Note On May 9, 2025, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Alyssa Picard. At the time, P […]