CUNY Academic Commons | Nadhia Rahman | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/nadhiar/activity/ Activity feed for Nadhia Rahman. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 c84944623ba30a2d860e6a8e16ee4f65 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8921 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:07:43 -0400 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 […]

]]> aadca468f33f52ba2ec2563d88fdbdc5 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8743 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:20:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> 4586cd7e0e626cc446e69f46d9b48293 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8723 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:01:02 -0500 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 […]

]]> 87369ce344060775cdcda7364647f986 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8675 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:27:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 986e840b72fdd3609b574c53f86a1a69 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8649 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:12:38 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0fc7ca9d812f62da6844e0eff5120cbc Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8609 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:35:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> a62242c9baf52259c0f7ab10d241d848 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8577 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:58:37 -0500 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 […]

]]> c319ecbe8d9b19da51876e5b8515d7dc Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8565 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:49:35 -0500 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 […]

]]> 1ca7d93eb6047e5dcf682277eb089e02 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8555 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:57:41 -0500 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 […]

]]> de9eb4e36edd677c6eefad26468c74f4 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8517 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:59:59 -0500 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 […]

]]> 22e5e75a9b21fb62009acab3114e52f5 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8503 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:14:11 -0500 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 […]

]]> fbf32e7f41221c6b4d6d877d48a78a35 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8469 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:10:01 -0400 “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 […]

]]> c6e652e376964dbc8f30f8d9a815e55c Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8461 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:47:29 -0400 The Urban Librarian: Out of the Stacks and into the CommunityEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Kayla Hoskinson, Librarian and Co- […]

]]> 6b285940b01058d5380f1d9f287712ce Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8437 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:11:57 -0400 Building a Conservative Labor Movement: American Compass and the Right’s Pro-Worker Policy AgendaWhat does it look like when the right attempts to articulate its own version of a “pro-worker” program? That is the question driving the Ame […]

]]> 355276134f6958aa89d23df3609c75da Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8445 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:38:45 -0400 Volume 34, Issue 2, Spring 2025 Contents Thinking Big for Organizing, Past and Future Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts a […]

]]> ffbd64625e141a98b2b025da406a0139 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8415 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:51:13 -0400 How the Democrats Can Rebuild a Working-Class Majority What is the best way to build working-class power when labor’s leverage over capital is near a historic low? With private-sector union density at j […]

]]> 8af94c797500ec4bb9e967a16d7e85b6 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8403 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:08:20 -0400 Does “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future?Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the 21st cen […]

]]> a5c3a00a4a6175339e6022b16312c97c Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8373 Wed, 21 May 2025 22:15:28 -0400 Revisiting Harry Braverman’s Classic Labor and Monopoly Capital Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century By Harry Braverman Monthly Review Press, 1974 ISBN: […]

]]> 83d6282d18185c9c5a301fd1f0c8af34 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8359 Wed, 21 May 2025 21:32:22 -0400 Resentment and Recrimination: Can U.S. Labor Unions and Indian Tech Workers on H-1B Visas Ever Get Along? Credit: RDNE Stock project, Pexels The start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term will probably be remembered for the flurry of e […]

]]> c85b0e76f1ab8cd4048c0bc523950efe Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8341 Wed, 21 May 2025 20:48:55 -0400 Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later Credit: Luis Feliz Leon, labor journalist. Caption: Amazon delivery driver Jogernsyn Cardenas stopped his van to join the strike and was […]

]]> 72b754690da370df408b948eecbe50ca Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8321 Wed, 21 May 2025 18:51:11 -0400 Volume 34, Issue 1, Winter 2025 Contents From the Editorial Team Can the UAW Break the Non-Union Confederacy? The United Auto Workers’ Southern Offensive By Nelson L […]

]]> c51348863f6bbc660d532f3af657a07a Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8309 Wed, 14 May 2025 21:35:51 -0400 Organizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts In the popular imaginary, Ford’s River Rouge complex has come to represent an industrial age long gone. Completed in 1928, the Rouge complex c […]

]]> 127e2ef1886319b1a25e9705d23dc9d1 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8271 Wed, 14 May 2025 17:27:26 -0400 The Four-Day Workweek: Possibility or Pipedream? Credit: Ris and Ry, Unsplash In 2018, a New Zealand-based entrepreneur named Andrew Barnes began an eight-week experiment at his finance […]

]]> d5266b1defba09104d627ff2b59b4e30 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8283 Wed, 14 May 2025 17:16:48 -0400 Corporate Democracy and the Role of Worker Co-Governance Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm and Beyond Edited by Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson, and Joel Rogers At a moment when […]

]]> 400d9a2de56cf58283ebeae356b0c850 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8221 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:39:48 -0500 Planned Parenthood: Bargaining after DobbsEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed two workers at Planned Parentho […]

]]> 0b0bde33cc4ef2d3e325c05e71cd57ba Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8171 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:12:43 -0500 Essential Workers: Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change Caption: Construction workers have to deal with extreme heat, the leading cause of climate-related fatalities. Credit: Mikael Blomkvist, […]

]]> 39aeebe72cc024d4d1277f07a9924a63 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8145 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:30:21 -0500 Volume 33, Issue 3, Fall 2024 Contents Labor and the Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge  By Jason Re […]

]]> 1387d1508d1f0f7f5eb9cefba50877c6 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8141 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:34:33 -0500 Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors Caption: Justice for Janitors March, July 10, 2010. Credit: SEIU local 1 Stephen Lerner joined SEIU in the mid-1980s and immediately took […]

]]> 2745bcdb1bb44650b3548cd75abd98de Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8126 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:50:20 -0500 Central American Democracy in Crisis Left photo: Nayib Bukele during the 2019 presidential elections in El Salvador, February 3, 2019. Credit: Presidential House, El Salvador Right […]

]]> 780438a2b2a607f6e6ff7e4949d71c67 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8119 Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:11:11 -0500 The United Auto Workers’ Southern Offensive “Organize the South!” has long been a progressive imperative, from the interracial Union Leagues that sought to defend Reconstruction-era rad […]

]]> ad79263b60eb46c5e83202e4b52f5f22 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8108 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:23:19 -0500 A New Route for Auto Workers: An Interview with the UAW’s Jonah FurmanThings tend to move slowly in the American labor movement—big ships don’t change course quickly. An exception has been in the United Auto Wor […]

]]> 0c5d9a67c3d0bd7c11e87d179d03bf20 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8091 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:15:16 -0400 How the U.S. Labor Movement Is Confronting AIWhen Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent faculty an e […]

]]> 24d4fcdc6fbb1c03aa589ccb25888256 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8077 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:08:16 -0400 Labor Day, EWOC, Bidenomics and more NLF Highlights for Labor Day 2024 This Labor Day, it’s worth asking a simple question: does the labor movement need new methods and o […]

]]> d196909e9030cc2a62543a65c3c33085 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8074 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:56:55 -0400 Queer Working-Class Politics and U.S. Labor NLF Highlights for June 2024 In the twenty-first century, many of the most promising American union upsurges, such as the Starbucks Workers […]

]]> e1c1cd602a35e670734c8a6fb651a86c Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8070 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:46:49 -0400 Worker-to-Worker Organizing Goes Viral NLF Highlights for May 2024   At a moment of dark news across the globe, the American labor movement has recently been, in a refreshing […]

]]> 17c12bb186c20da5232b98c3bd0831dc Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8064 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:33:29 -0400 The Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project for Working Families NLF Highlights for April 2024 In the long list of expenses crushing American workers, childcare is one of the heaviest. According to the […]

]]> 63c494d55f75f092f3581314d2bc162d Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8053 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:10:59 -0400 Can labor transform the South? NLF Highlights for January 2024 The 2022 unionization campaign at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, is one of several high-profile o […]

]]> c12014287b57a1068a02dce773b871da Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8042 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:34:06 -0400 The Dark Doldrums: Has Germany’s Energy Transition Reached a Dead End?In recent years, the term dunkelflaute (“dark doldrums”) has entered the political discourse in Germany. It refers to a period of consecutive day […]

]]> 85a8082f88e73f7c1a90a8d8e7cba0da Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8036 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:26:12 -0400 Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge Credit for cover and Resnikoff: From Pixabay. Pete Linforth created this image using AI. The material changes ushered in under the aegis of […]

]]> b5c964a8aecb538a40ce71aced3569c9 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8033 Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:43:56 -0400 Union and Community at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed two workers at the Phi […]

]]> cb64b5797b72b0122e54a550599829c2 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8016 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:19:30 -0400 Volume 33, Issue 2, Spring 2024 Contents Crisis at the Border: Two Views Today’s Immigration Crisis: A Broken Asylum System  An Interview with Muzaffar Chishti By Kitty We […]

]]> 38cfa4eb9ffd4744b50a21392bd038af Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8012 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:10:26 -0400 Bidenomics: A Giant Step Forward for Workers Credit: ABCDStock Caption: Construction workers laying new asphalt to repair the road. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided […]

]]> 1284563477ea95edb17842d251250aef Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=8006 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:45:18 -0400 The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: A New Model for Worker-Led Organizing Tens of millions of workers in the United States  want a union at their workplace, but do not have one.[1] This unfortunate state of affairs is […]

]]> 1547b78adfa8f606a3f13de28c9ba9b7 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=7990 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:16:24 -0400 Remembering Master Union Organizer and Strategist Jane McAlevey Review of Rules To Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations by Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor (Oxford University Press, 2023) Jane […]

]]> f57214ba1e51ac99481d960fb121ebb7 Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=7963 Mon, 13 May 2024 18:25:51 -0400 Platform Kitchens and the Remaking of Food Service Caption: A three-hundred-square foot delivery kitchen within a thirty-minute delivery range of three high-income residential neighborhoods in New […]

]]> 56af410dfe1a9086b659230e3d10a03d Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=7956 Mon, 13 May 2024 17:42:22 -0400 Queer Working-Class Politics and the U.S. Labor Movement Caption: Starbucks workers and organizers from Philadelphia and other cities plus other Philly workers rallied at City Hall. Credit: Joe Piette, […]

]]> fbc79aa2eb25ae038b64c8ffb3f20dba Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=7938 Wed, 01 May 2024 17:54:41 -0400 The Current Migrant Crisis: How U.S. Policy Toward Latin America Has Fueled Historic Numbers of Asylum Seekers Editor’s Note The report that follows was issued on October 20, 2023, by the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago. It is p […]

]]> 66723509c1dea085a2e2c1610eecc8cb Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=7927 Wed, 01 May 2024 00:43:49 -0400 Today’s Immigration Crisis: A Broken Asylum System, An Interview with Muzaffar ChishtiIn 2023, a record-breaking year for immigration, the number of asylum seekers crossing the border nearly doubled from the previous year. Right now, […]

]]> d526bc9933802652299c09cf59637fee Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=7923 Wed, 01 May 2024 00:08:02 -0400 Worker-to-Worker Organizing Goes ViralYoung, radicalized, digitally coordinated workers have initiated and driven forward many of the highest profile strikes and union drives of recent […]

]]> 004e70972c23fbac97d4f01c7c11011b Nadhia Rahman wrote a new post on the site New Labor Forum https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/?p=7920 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:52:17 -0400 Volume 33, Issue 1, Winter 2024 Contents The Fight for the Working-Class Voter: The Death of Deliverism: Why Policy Alone Is Not Enough By Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, […]

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