The Labor Movement improves lives for all kinds of Workers and the two largest National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Elections of the month of May were at two very different workplaces: The School of Visual Arts in New York City and Dold Foods in Wichita, Kansas. In Jacobin’s monthly roundup of Large Unit Labor Elections, Benjamin Y. Fong from the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University recaps all NLRB Elections of 250 or more voters tallied in the previous month, in this case for May 2025. It’s the Venter’s belief that if the Labor Movement in the U.S. is to be rebuilt, it is going to be through experimentation with new strategies and tactics that push against the constraints of Labor Law and through Large-Unit Organizing in the hundreds and thousands. The latter concern will be at issue in this series. Given the outsize importance of Large Unit Labor Elections in the composition of the Labor Movement, there’s a good argument to be made that the overall trajectory of Organized Labor can be gleaned from an analysis of such elections. He’s writes: What do Arts Faculty in New York City and Bacon Processing Workers in Wichita, Kansas have in common? I asked ChatGPT this question, hoping for some connective thread for this article, and it spat the following back at me: “They both spend their days transforming raw material into something people either deeply savor or completely misunderstand. (And neither gets paid what they’re worth.)”

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