Jonathan Kissam

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Jonathan Kissam has been UE's Communications Director and editor of the UE NEWS since August 2017. Prior to that he was a rank-and-file member of UE Local 203 in Burlington, VT. From 2002-2004 he served on UE's General Executive Board as the secretary-treasurer of what was then UE District Two.

UE NEWS Articles

August 3, 2023
The Suppression of the 1948 Univis Strike
December 16, 2022
Remembering Ralph Fasanella, UE Organizer and Painter of Working-Class Life and Struggle
June 23, 2022
Seventy Five Years Later, Toll of Taft-Hartley Weighs Heavily on Labor
June 17, 2022
Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom from Forced Labor
February 28, 2022
A Labor Movement to Challenge the Billionaires
February 1, 2022
“Them and Us” Unionism in the Deep South
September 3, 2021
75 Years Ago, NC Tobacco Workers Challenged Jim Crow with “Civil Rights Unionism”
June 23, 2021
U.S. Government Policy the “Root Cause” of Migrant Caravans
February 28, 2020
The Forgotten Role of Medicare in Desegregating US Healthcare
February 10, 2020
The Distinct Perspective of a “Little Leftist Union”
July 26, 2019
“Working-Class Heroes” Finds Striking Relevance in Songs of Past Struggles
May 13, 2019
A Comic Look at an America TORN Apart
December 14, 2018
Two New Books Examine How Working People Have Changed (and Can Still Change) the World
August 14, 2018
The Fight for Good Jobs and a Democratic Economy
July 24, 2018
A Labor Film for the Near-Future
June 7, 2018
Supreme Court: Workers Have No Labor Rights the Boss is Bound to Respect
March 1, 2018
Women’s History Month Book Review: The Domestic Politics of Organized Housewives
February 1, 2018
1968: Municipal Workers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People’s Campaign
October 24, 2017
Fighting for a High-Wage America