Working Legacy Series

By Nathaniel Popper

The offices of union boss Bruce Raynor were, until recently, a physical testament to the Jewish labor movement’s enduring power.Read More

Long Strike at Chicago Hotel Pits Jew Against Jew

By Nathaniel Popper

Nearly six years after the housekeepers and dishwashers at the Congress Plaza Hotel first went on strike, the enormous hotel here on Chicago’s lakefront shows the marks of being a battle zone in America’s labor wars.Read More

Orthodox, and Sticking With the Union

By Nathaniel Popper

Recent controversies about labor issues in the Jewish community have often become battles between non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews. At the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago, this paradigm seems to hold, with rabbis from more liberal denominations protesting the Orthodox Jewish owners of the hotel.Read More

Which Side Are We On? Jews Lead Fight For and Against Key Labor Bill

By Nathaniel Popper

Since retiring from his position as CEO of Home Depot, Bernard Marcus has become one of this country’s most vocal opponents of organized labor, criticizing unions in the media and on Capitol Hill. That is a long way from Marcus’s beginnings in a Newark, N.J., tenement some 80 years ago.Read More

New Labor Leaders Take a Page From History

By Nathaniel Popper

A group of contemporary labor leaders are at the head of a new Jewish labor movement, recalling an era before World War II when Jews were leading some of the most progressive, innovative unions in the country.Read More

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