Your Rent or Your Life Your Rent or Your Life
The pandemic is forcing workers to make impossible choices.
Apr 3, 2020 / Michelle Chen
Why GE Workers Walked Out in Lynn Why GE Workers Walked Out in Lynn
As employers use the coronavirus crisis to consolidate power and wealth, we need to build activism and organization.
Apr 1, 2020 / Jeff Crosby
The Coronavirus Class War Has Already Started The Coronavirus Class War Has Already Started
The combination of plutocratic bailouts and a physically endangered working class is sparking a new blue-collar militancy.
Apr 1, 2020 / Jeet Heer
‘I Am Willing to Take a Bullet for You. Are You Willing to Go on Strike for Me?’ ‘I Am Willing to Take a Bullet for You. Are You Willing to Go on Strike for Me?’
The government won’t listen. The police keep cracking down. So Hong Kong protesters are trying a new tactic: They’re forming unions.
Mar 12, 2020 / Jun Pang and Nickolas Tang
We’re California Graduate Students, and We’re Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore We’re California Graduate Students, and We’re Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore
It’s time for a wildcat strike.
Feb 10, 2020 / StudentNation / UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strikers
Baseball’s Hall of Fame Finally Admits Labor Pioneer Marvin Miller Baseball’s Hall of Fame Finally Admits Labor Pioneer Marvin Miller
At least two owners and executives cast their secret ballot for the Major League Baseball Players Association’s former head.
Dec 10, 2019 / Peter Dreier
Harvard Faculty Have a Rare Chance to Act in Solidarity With Striking Student Workers Harvard Faculty Have a Rare Chance to Act in Solidarity With Striking Student Workers
Professors are being pressured to report on striking students—it’s time they exposed their administration’s labor-suppression tactics.
Dec 10, 2019 / Robert D. Johnston and Benjamin H. Johnson
Don’t Mess With French Pensions Don’t Mess With French Pensions
Emmanuel Macron’s latest bugbear: a million angry French citizens striking against his proposed pension reforms.
Dec 6, 2019 / Colin Kinniburgh
Crusading Autoworkers Are Fighting to Take Back Their Union From an Employer-Backed Culture of Corruption Crusading Autoworkers Are Fighting to Take Back Their Union From an Employer-Backed Culture of Corruption
UAW leaders sold out their workers for decades. But recent convictions and renewed militance mean that may finally change.
Nov 27, 2019 / Chris Brooks
The Chicago Teachers Strike Was a Lesson in 21st-Century Organizing The Chicago Teachers Strike Was a Lesson in 21st-Century Organizing
Despite the Janus decision and years of labor losses, the Chicago Teachers Union has figured out how to organize—and win.
Nov 16, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe