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We Can’t Rebuild the Labor Movement Without Taking on Big Targets | Labor Notes

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Difficult as it may be, unions must organize workers in the nation’s largest and most powerful corporations, and they cannot afford to wait for labor law reform or a more favorable administration to do so. Above, members of the Alphabet Workers Union (CWA), which is organizing workers at Google, join Labor Day demonstrations this year. Photo: Alphabet Workers Union [This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead. Click here to read the rest of the series.—Editors] Last year, U.S. unions cautiously celebrated a turnaround in their organizing fortunes. National Labor Relations Board election win rates had reached 79 percent, and the number of workers organized for the year approached 100,000, the highest number since 2009. Yet these gains masked a harsher reality for labor, even before the disastrous 2024 elections. For the labor movement t

We Can’t Rebuild the Labor Movement Without Taking on Big Targets | Labor Notes Skip to main content We Can’t Rebuild the Labor Movement Without Taking on Big Targets Difficult as it may be, unions must organize workers in the nation’s largest and most powerful corporations, and they cannot afford to wait for labor law reform or a more favorable administration to do so. Above, members of the Alphabet Workers Union (CWA), which is organizing workers at Google, join Labor Day demonstrations this year. Photo: Alphabet Workers Union [This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can

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