Category: Testimonies

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    Labor Storm Edition #1

    Labor Storm Edition #1

    New Labor Press and the New Labor Organizing Committee are very excited to present the first edition of the NLOC’s biannual newsletter Labor Storm. The publication covers reports on the social investigation, class analysis and practical work of the current five shop organization affiliates of NLOC over the least several… Read more

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    Report: On Right-to-Work Laws and State Unions

    Report: On Right-to-Work Laws and State Unions

    By: A Worker in the US South If the National Labor Relations Act was the “carrot” for state unionism in the US, the Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947, was the stick. It aimed to put limits on the legally-recognized powers of the state unions; included in the act was the… Read more

  • Testimony: Building a Combative Class-Conscious Labor Organization in the South

    Testimony: Building a Combative Class-Conscious Labor Organization in the South

    By Eugene Watts This testimony comes from one individual within the Working People’s Association and does not reflect the unity of the organization. The Working People’s Association of Charlotte (WPA) was formed almost two years ago, born from the ashes of previous revolutionary organizations in the city and a wave… Read more

  • Report: The Collusion Behind the Tentative Agreements in Hollywood

    Report: The Collusion Behind the Tentative Agreements in Hollywood

    by Fiona Wrench (PGH) [Editor’s note: We are excited to publish this excellent report from a contact on the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees’ (IATSE or IA) recent sell-out tentative agreements. The report comes from the shop paper “Strike The Stage”. For those working under IATSE jurisdictions who are… Read more

  • Report – Conditions at Charlotte Factory

    Report – Conditions at Charlotte Factory

    A bakery worker at a Snyder’s-Lance (a subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company) manufacturing plant in Charlotte, North Carolina spoke this week with a representative of the New Labor Press (NLP) about conditions inside the facility. The worker revealed the shockingly unsafe working conditions which have resulted in injuries including… Read more

  • Testimony: Real and False Trade Unionism at UPS

    Testimony: Real and False Trade Unionism at UPS

    By: A New Dayer I am 26 years old, I have worked at UPS since I was 18, which means I’ve been a Teamster for basically my entire adult life. I consider myself a real student of UPS and the Teamster rank-and-file. The amount of time I spend reading about… Read more

  • Testimony: My Time as a UFCW Union Steward

    Testimony: My Time as a UFCW Union Steward

    By Disillusioned Former Rep I first became a union steward under UFCW in early 2022 after working at the store for about 8 years up to that point, in an initiative that I and several other comrades in our city had in getting more involved with the US labor movement… Read more

  • Testimony: Mediation and “ULPs” Are a Fraud

    Testimony: Mediation and “ULPs” Are a Fraud

    By: A Betrayed Educator It’s hard to think of words more meaningless than what labor lawyers, the NLRB, and union staffers like to call the “mediation process” and “unfair labor practices”. What’s even worse is that the fact these phrases mean nothing in practice is basically an open secret among… Read more