Organizing for a Breakout
By Chris Townsend November 6, 2025 There is a military axiom that if your positions are...
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Labor Day 2025: What We Face
By Chris Townsend September 3, 2025 Meet Sean Tierney – The Left Wing Doing the Work...
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Trump Confronts the World with Trade Tariffs
The following remarks were delivered to a seminar examining the Trump regime trade and tariff...
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A Fighting Union’s Path to Renewal: The UE Story
By Chris Townsend May 9, 2025 The UE News The UE NEWS asked retired UE Political Action...
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Pages from a Trade Lobbyist’s Diary
By Chris Townsend April 21, 2025 The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of...
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Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me
By Chris Townsend December 30, 2024 Jacobin magazine As a worker in the 1970s, I looked...
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Low Octane Labor Leaders Leave Workers in the Lurch
By Chris Townsend Reprinted from the November-December Capitol Hill Citizen They Cheerlead...
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Election Day Delirium
By Chris Townsend November 8, 2024 There should not be much room for confusion regarding...
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Examining Labor’s Political Captivity
By Chris Townsend September 25, 2024 Every election year many of the U.S. trade unions...
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The State of the Unions: Not Good
By Chris Townsend September 5, 2024 A “State of the Unions” webcast was conducted by the...
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The Biggest Organizing Wave You Never Heard Of
By Chris Townsend June 14, 2024 Nobody would pick the U.S. state of Virginia to be a trade...
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What’s Wrong with Labor’s Collective Bargaining?
By Chris Townsend April 7, 2024 Several clear trends illustrate the decline of organized...
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