We hope this issue is a jumping off point for more discussion, collaboration, and debate about the strategic questions labor needs to tackle to build a movement that can win a greener, more caring, and more just future. 

The future of labor hinges on making organizing an accessible, popular mechanism for contesting power on the job. 

The choice is ours: organize a unified worker movement with bold leadership, or tell stories about the good old days.

If we can win power for Black domestic workers, we can win power for all workers.

With state governments facing a catastrophic budget crisis, fighting unions can develop working-class power for the long haul by building strategic blocs to demand a People’s Recovery.

We must flip the script pitting jobs against the environment by organizing workers in the rising green energy industry.

This fishbowl panel with organizing directors at some of the country's most ambitious and creative unions explores how they are wrestling with broken labor law, declining unionization rates, and the challenges and opportunities of organizing in this moment. 

The current economic and public health crises have made at least two things clear: we all depend on each other and having a job does not guarantee economic stability or a dignified place in our society. 

For worker justice movements to play their part in the takedown of authoritarian presidents and authoritarian companies like Amazon, we need to look beyond the confines of bargaining units, sectors, or industries to build the biggest possible community of interest. 

This crisis in capitalism is an opportunity to build new infrastructure and platforms and bring new people into the movement.