Long-Haul SPRING 2025 | ISSUE 02
Long-Haul SPRING 2025 | ISSUE 02
Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing about culture and organization on and off the shop floor, past and present, in and outside of unions.
Common Notions is proud to assist in their sales and distribution.
EDITORIALS
Yet It Moves
EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE
SHOPTALK
People Like Us: Obituary for Bruce Reid
PATRICK KING
Subway Portraits: The Struggle Behind MTA Style
SIRUI MA
WORKER INITIATIVE
Metal Remains Metal: The Continuous Struggle Against a US Employer in Delhi
WORKERS OF MICHAEL ARAM, WITH ANKIT SHARMA
Advanced Detachments: Two Strikes Against Competition and Division at an Amazon Delivery Station
ALVIN GAINE, BRENDAN RADTKE, DYLAN D. MARAJ, IRA POLLOCK, AND LUC RENE, WITH BEN MABIE
From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine
CURRENT AND FORMER GRAD WORKERS AT UC SANTA CRUZ
WEB SUPPLEMENT
SDR Amazon: A Crack in the Colossus
XABIER IRASTORZA, MANU ROBLES-ARANIZ
FUNDAZIOA OF ELA UNION
TRANSLATED BY NATE EDENHOFER
TRANSMISSIONS
The Worst Among the Bad: Auto Workers and Class Power in Fremont, California (Pt 1)
MATT RAY AND MATTHEW WRANOVICS
We Are Workers: The Founding Declaration of a Japanese Immigrant Labor Union
JANE KOMORI
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Zach Hicks and Stefan Yong are managing editors of Long-Haul. Its editorial collective includes Jack Davies, Dylan Davis, Jane Komori, Ben Mabie, Sarah Mason, Alexandra Michaud, Lucy Peterson, Matt Ray, and Sara Sukhun. Patrick King is a contributing editor.
Design is by Sara Sukhun. The logo, a metal type sort, is a nod to the history of type and print culture in the labor movement.
Partner Publisher / Labor
Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing about culture and organization on and off the shop floor, past and present, in and outside of unions.
Common Notions is proud to assist in their sales and distribution.
TRANSMISSIONS
Little Scraps and Memory: Lineages of Workers’ Inquiry in the United States
Patrick King
SHOPTALK
Nada Se Construye Sin Estas Manos
(Nothing Is Built Without These Hands)
Alexandra Thyme
We Feel It from the Warehouse Floor: Amazon’s Immigrant Workers Under Attack
Lula Valentine
Liquid Assets: How the Maquiladora System Built the World’s Most Profitable Blood Business
Sam Russek
WORKER INITIATIVE
If You Don’t Like the Smell, Blame It on Cherelle: The Philadelphia Municipal Strike of 2025
Dan Dedomenico
Sign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike
John Cruickshank, with other members of the New York Times Tech Guild
LETTERS
Letters to the Editors