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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. In recent decades,

the passage of Labor Day has usually marked an opportunity to assess just how much worse things

have become for the American labor movement than they were the year before. But in 2023,

there's legitimately, if not uniformly, good news on the Union Front.

The last year has seen an explosion in working-class militancy and creativity across the United States.

Union reform efforts long supported by left-wing groups like Labor Notes

to remake unions into more democratic, militant tributes of the entire working class have recently

paid off, with new leadership in the teamsters and the UAW taking their unions to the edge

of massive national strikes. Strikes in Hollywood have grabbed national attention and become a

referendum on corporate greed, as exemplified by the studio heads. Workers have undertaken new

experiments in organizing, whether through independent unions that companies like Amazon and

...