A riveting account of labor's bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely.After decades of union decline and rising inequality, an inspiring wave of workplace organizing—from Starbucks stores to Amazon warehouses to southern auto factories—has thrust unionization into the national spotlight. By analyzing this surge and telling the stories of the courageous workers driving it forward, We Are the Union ma...

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politicsThirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of “the white working class,” a strike wave—the first in over four decades—rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for ...

Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class," a strike wave—the first in over four decades—rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for students, and an end to years of austerity.Confounding all expectations, these working-class rebellions erupted in r...

“There is no collective bargaining without the strike. Joe Burns’ Strike Back helps awaken the labor movement to our collective power. This book belongs in the hands of every unionist who wants to build power for working people through militant grassroots activism." —SARA NELSON, President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIODuring the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, police, firefighters, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose u...

Blank is an emoji that is struggling to find his expression and he just cannot find a way to fit into the emoji world. He already failed to get uploaded in his first year of Emoji Academy. He has one more try to make it work. Will he succeed? Or is he doomed to be a failure for ever?Follow along the exciting journey of self-discovery through the entries in his diary app and find out! A fun diary-form story for kids and teens (even adults) with fun sketches throughout!