Jonathan Kissam

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

February 4, 2025

New Exhibition Shows Different Sides of UE Organizer Turned Painter

September 19, 2024

“Uphold UE Policies; Fight Company Unionism”: The 1949 UE Convention

August 30, 2024

U.S. Labor’s Self-Destructive International Crusade Against “Red” Unions

March 22, 2024

Fifty Years Ago, Union Women Founded New Organization to Fight for Equality

March 9, 2024

Two New Podcasts Explore History of the CIO

November 16, 2023

New Book Describes Workers’ Efforts to “Claim the City”

October 7, 2023

“Building Strike Power” Convention Held in City of Steel ... and Strikes

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

June 18, 2021

Working-Class Pride in the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union

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