Labor Organizing

H-2A farmworkers planting ornamental shrubs in an Oregon field

Why Farmworker Legalization Failed Why Farmworker Legalization Failed

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act’s failure to become law reveals critical divisions within the immigrant rights movement.

Jan 10, 2023 / Photo Essay / David Bacon

Protect Democracy by Bolstering Organized Labor

Protect Democracy by Bolstering Organized Labor Protect Democracy by Bolstering Organized Labor

The Democrats must adopt long-term strategies to address the ongoing threats to American democracy. 

Jan 10, 2023 / Jacob M. Grumbach

Higher Ed Labor Organizing Is Just Getting Started

Higher Ed Labor Organizing Is Just Getting Started Higher Ed Labor Organizing Is Just Getting Started

It’s legal for adjuncts to work under conditions that are outlawed for most other industries. Here’s how grad workers could change that.

Jan 6, 2023 / Jamie K. McCallum

How Students Fought for Democracy in 2022

How Students Fought for Democracy in 2022 How Students Fought for Democracy in 2022

Recent StudentNation coverage highlights the issues weighing on young people—and how they are organizing to fight back.

Jan 6, 2023 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Kathy Hochul’s Nomination of Hector LaSalle Is a Self-Inflicted Wound

Kathy Hochul’s Nomination of Hector LaSalle Is a Self-Inflicted Wound Kathy Hochul’s Nomination of Hector LaSalle Is a Self-Inflicted Wound

Nominating a Latino conservative as chief judge might have seemed like a clever triangulation. Instead, New York's governor has only underlined the limits of her power.

Jan 5, 2023 / Ross Barkan

Karl-Marx-Hof, a community owned apartment building in Vienna, Austria

Reflections on Vienna’s Social Housing Model From Tenant Advocates Reflections on Vienna’s Social Housing Model From Tenant Advocates

I participated in a 50-person delegation that toured Vienna's social housing developments last fall. What we saw should make Americans rethink how we approach housing.

Jan 5, 2023 / Oksana Mironova

Giorgia Meloni waves to from a stage.

Giorgia Meloni’s Bootstrap Ideology Giorgia Meloni’s Bootstrap Ideology

The new Italian government’s culture war looks less like populism of the right and more like the same old blaming of capitalism’s victims.

Jan 2, 2023 / David Broder

Fighting Poverty

Poor People Have the Power to Transform America Poor People Have the Power to Transform America

As the threat of yet more political turmoil and escalating violence looms, isn’t it time to break through the isolation with a new sense of collective power?

Dec 26, 2022 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Why Striking University of California Workers May Vote “No” on Their Contract

Why Striking University of California Workers May Vote “No” on Their Contract Why Striking University of California Workers May Vote “No” on Their Contract

The union’s concessions may be too much for the rank and file of the biggest strike in the country to swallow.

Dec 22, 2022 / Sammy Feldblum and Lavanya Nott

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican from Missouri, holding a pencil.

One-and-a-Half Cheers for Comrade Josh Hawley One-and-a-Half Cheers for Comrade Josh Hawley

The Missouri Republican’s attack on Biden and corporate Democrats for stopping railway workers from striking was on-target. But if he really wants to get on the workers’ side of hi...

Dec 16, 2022 / Ben Burgis

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