Amidst a rekindled interest in the efforts of student radicals of the 1960s to industrialize in workers’ movement as part…
Fighting Times
Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines— JA Review
By Niklas Pivic Niklas reviews Jon Melrod has, for a long time, been part of worker struggles, mainly in hard…
Jon Melrod on Cream City Social
By Cream City Social April 7th-14th, 2023 Jon Melrod, a Milwaukee organizer in the 70s and 80s, takes us back…
Jon Melrod on The Federalist Outpost
The Federalist OutpostDecember 23rd, 2022 A rebel in the 1960’s and 70s’, Jon Melrod was a political activist and union…
Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines— Jon Melrod on Lean to the Left
Lean to the LeftDecember 18th, 2022 It’s hard to believe that in this day and age unions representing freight rail…
Jon Melrod: Labor Lessons Learned
by Jon Melrod and Peter Olney Convergence November 17th, 2022 “Stay in for the long haul and roll with the…
Two Sixties’ Radicals Recall Fighting Times in U.S. Labor
By Steve Early New Politics October 7th, 2022 A review of Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the…
How a Wisconsin Autoworker Dodged Death Threats to Grow a Fighting, Multiracial Union
An interview with Jon Melrod By Ella Teevan Jacobin Jon Melrod was part of a wave of student radicals who…
A union firebrand in the 1970s and ‘80s sees labor’s future in his past
By Erik Gunn Wisconsin Examiner September 27th, 2022 Jon Melrod has written a memoir that tells a slice of labor…
Jon Melrod Interviewed on WBAI Arts Express
By Jack Shalom September 24, 2022 As corporations are making record profits, workers are being squeezed more than ever. But…