The Working Class Is on Strike The Working Class Is on Strike
It’s time for Washington to have their backs.
Nov 4, 2021 / John Fetterman
On the John Deere Picket Line in Iowa With UAW Local 281 On the John Deere Picket Line in Iowa With UAW Local 281
With $1.6 billion in profits just in the third quarter of this year, the company has ample time and money to squeeze striking workers—unless national unions step up their support.
Oct 20, 2021 / Column / Dave Leshtz
Pandemic Solidarity Transformed Our Society. Now We Need It Again. Pandemic Solidarity Transformed Our Society. Now We Need It Again.
In attempt to stem the tide of death, cities, states, and the federal government passed unprecedented reforms. Fighting to keep them is an important way to counter pandemic depress...
Oct 11, 2021 / Abdullah Shihipar
The Buffalo Hospital Strike Is the Latest in a New Wave of Labor Unrest The Buffalo Hospital Strike Is the Latest in a New Wave of Labor Unrest
A stressed health care system pushed to the breaking point by the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked renewed action by labor unions across the country.
Oct 7, 2021 / Column / C.M. Lewis
California Wins Labor Reforms That Republicans Nearly Made Impossible California Wins Labor Reforms That Republicans Nearly Made Impossible
In the past couple weeks, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed important worker protection bills that would never have gotten through if he’d lost the recall election.
Oct 1, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky
Our Union Has Been Fighting for Voting Rights All Year Our Union Has Been Fighting for Voting Rights All Year
And our members can tell you why Congress must pass the Freedom to Vote Act.
Sep 29, 2021 / Column / Ada Briceño, Susan Minato, and Kurt Petersen
China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions
Empowered workers would be a threat to the Chinese Communist Party.
Sep 22, 2021 / Maya Wang
Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could
Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now.
Sep 15, 2021 / James North
When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens? When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens?
The initial decision by OnlyFans to ban porn illustrates how ostensibly legal online sex work is, in reality, criminalized.
Sep 6, 2021 / Emily Coombes
There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party
Despite what it says, the GOP is the party of capital, not labor.
Sep 3, 2021 / John Nichols