A House of Labor Divided

This article appears in the April 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue.

To many supporters of American unions—indeed, to many in the meeting room—the conflicting accounts, palpable animosities, and vituperative attacks launched during the February 2024 meeting of the United Auto Workers’ International Executive Board (IEB)—the union’s topmost policymaking body between its quadrennial conventions—came as a shock. That this rift persists, and that...