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Highlights for Labor Day NLF Highlights for September Happy Labor Day! This has been an eventful summer. On July 14th the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA went on […]

The Supreme Court Curbs Federal Regulatory Power NLF Highlights for June They are in the news again, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Environmental Protection Agency, with the former once again […]

Independent Unions: The Allure of a Failing Strategy NLF Highlights for May “There is something going on today,” writes Erik Loomis, reflecting on the stirring of interest in independent uni […]

Labor Power and Strategy NLF Highlights for April In 2003, an article in New Labor Forum by Peter Olney titled “The Arithmetic of Decline: A Modest Pro […]

NLF Highlights for March

It‘s almost a cliché to ask if U.S. democracy is in peril, yet New Labor Forum is obliged to address this question at every opportunity. In the current issue of the journal […]

NLF Highlights for February

Since 1994, when the North American Free Trade Agreement went into force, workers in all three countries covered by the trade agreement took a hit in one form or another. The […]

NLF Highlights for January

The winter 2023 issue of New Labor Forum is due out shortly! In this newsletter, we offer a preview of one of the lead articles, “Making Hope and History Rhyme: A New Worker Mo […]

NLF Highlights for December

Skyrocketing consumer debt – which now exceeds $96,000 for the average U.S. household – is fundamentally a labor issue, and a largely overlooked one. Wage stagnation beginning in […]

NLF Highlights for November

Thanks to a surge in union organizing around the country since 2021, the public now has a better understanding of the ruthless anti-union strategies of U.S. employers. One of […]

NLF Highlights for October

A new Supreme Court term begins today. If you’re still reeling from the from the calamitous rulings of the 2021-22 term, that’s understandable. But if you think the Roberts Cou […]

NLF Highlights for Labor Day

On this Labor Day we celebrate a nation-wide upsurge of worker-led organizing victories and invite you to join us this fall at events exploring those successes and gauging their f […]

NLF Highlights for May

In this May Day installment of the New Labor Forum newsletter, we celebrate the upsurge in job actions and worker unionizing around the country. Beginning last fall during what’s bee […]

NLF Highlights for March

As unionization campaigns continue to heat up around the country – from Starbucks and Amazon to tech and video game worker organizing – we bring you a debate regarding the optim […]

NLF Highlights for February

In his “Earth to Labor” column for New Labor Forum, Sean Sweeney detects a growing awareness that market-driven forces have failed to deliver the scale of energy trans […]

NLF Highlights for January

With the current installment of our newsletter, we bring you advance reading from the winter 2022 issue of New Labor Forum, on press now! If you find what we offer here […]

NLF Highlights for November

Comprehensive immigration reform has eluded Congress for decades. This, despite the millions of undocumented immigrants living perilously in this country and the thousands […]

NLF Highlights for October

Ten years ago on a bright fall day, crowds began to mass in lower Manhattan at capitalism’s doorstep. The budding movement, quickly referred to as Occupy Wall Street, trained its s […]

NLF Highlights for September

The 2021 Labor Day installment of the New Labor Forum newsletter comes to you in the wake of Ida. The category 4 hurricane that barreled ashore on the Gulf Coast early last w […]

NLF Highlights for April
The count continues. Soon we’ll know if the workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama have bested the behemoth in its quest to remain union-free. And if David trounces G […]

NLF Highlights for February
From the forthcoming winter 2021 issue of New Labor Forum, an article by Andrew Ross, included here, argues that any effort to create a more just and sustainable future must elevate […]