labor movement

Zara Cadoux Takes on Amazon

Nov 14, 2022

Featured – Student Stories

Zara Cadoux has been a rabble-rouser from the start. “I began thinking about power and justice as a kid,” Zara said. “I was one of three siblings growing up in a suburban household in Westchester, and although we were quite different from each other, we all had a similar critical lens on the world. We…
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Haley Shaffer Builds a Career in the Labor Movement (with a little help from the SLU network)

Feb 16, 2021

Featured – Student Stories

Haley Shaffer has been fighting for workers’ rights—including her own—for quite a while. But she says she’s just getting started. Haley moved from the Milwaukee area to New York City in 2014 for an internship at a non-profit organization, StoryCorps, and later took a staff position. “My coworkers and I were dealing with a toxic…
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A Debate on Bargaining for the Common Good

Oct 29, 2020

Faculty Writing – Featured

In this piece from Organizing Work, Marianne Garneau debates with labor organizer and journalist Chris Brooks and veteran union negotiator Joe Burns about Bargaining for the Common Good and its use as a model for connecting workplace fights with broader social demands. Read part one and part two here.
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Strike for Democracy

Oct 26, 2020

Faculty Writing – Featured

Labor Studies Professor Stephanie Luce writes about organizing in the labor movement to defend democracy in the event of a contested election. She notes that some unions are trying to connect their core activists with local “protect the vote” groupings in key states and cities to show up to polls and fight to make sure…
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labor movement

Zara Cadoux Takes on Amazon

Haley Shaffer Builds a Career in the Labor Movement (with a little help from the SLU network)

A Debate on Bargaining for the Common Good

Strike for Democracy