Editor’s Note: Ray Rogers is a pioneering labor strategist & organizer, and founder of CorporateCampaign.org.

By Ray Rogers

Since 2004, as part of the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, I have attended Coca-Cola’s annual meetings of shareholders to confront The Coca-Cola Company’s chief executives and board members over the company's involvement in horrific human rights abuses and other criminal behavior.

Editor’s Note: This is Part II of Phil’s first-person account of a truly unusual decertification fight that took place at a Brooks Brothers shirt factory located in Garland, North Carolina during the mid-1990s.

WAR STORIES BY Phil Cohen

As we resumed our seats at the bargaining table, Hodges asked if we’d had a chance to review the company’s package.

“As much as possible within a short period of time,” I replied. “Where do you come off trying to eliminate seniority from the job bidding language? That’s at the heart of every union contract, including the other two Brooks Brothers plants.”

Editor’s Note: This story was revised to reflect the correct line-up of speakers scheduled to appear at tonight’s forum. They include CWA political director Hae-Lin Choi, Federal Unionists Network codirector Chris Dols, Dr. Alethia Jones, distinguished lecturer at the CUNY School of Labor Studies, and Nadine Williamson, Senior Executive V.P., 1199SEIU).

By Steve Wishnia

How can the labor movement harness widespread discontent to fight Trumpism and racism effectively? Four speakers will address that question on the evening of Dec. 3, in an event organized by 1199SEIU, the Communications Workers of America, the Federal Unionists Network, and the Left Labor Project.

By Joe Maniscalco

Eighty-nine-year-old academic and author Patricia Hills spent her entire professional career opening up American museums and cultural institutions to the exact kinds of “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology” the Trump administration has now pledged to purge.

WAR STORIES By Phil Cohen

Editor’s Note: This is Part I of Phil’s first-person account of a truly unusual decertification fight that took place at a Brooks Brothers shirt factory located in Garland, North Carolina during the mid-1990s.

Brooks Brothers, the iconic manufacturer of fashionable men’s wear, was purchased in 1988 by British retailer Marks and Spencer. The UK conglomerate already owned a chain of grocery stores in New Jersey.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “What’s Going On?” we hear Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants CWA, and Jimmy Williams Jr., general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades tell a packed midtown labor forum last Friday that it is time for the union movement to build on the momentum from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s seismic win.