Labor Organizing

Students protest low wages.

$15 and a Union for Students? Yes $15 and a Union for Students? Yes

A new wave of labor organizing by students, for students, is sweeping the country.

Mar 11, 2016 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Urban Meyer on the sidelines

Ohio State Football Coach Urban Meyer Endorses John Kasich in a Greasy Political Payback Ohio State Football Coach Urban Meyer Endorses John Kasich in a Greasy Political Payback

Meyer has done very well in Ohio. His players cannot organize, and his salary is sky-high. This week, he paid back the man who has made it happen.

Mar 11, 2016 / Dave Zirin

fight for 15

Some Good News in the Fight for 15 Some Good News in the Fight for 15

The highest labor board in the country just confirmed fast-food workers’ right to organize.

Mar 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Alliance Educators United

The Struggle to Unionize Within LA’s Biggest Charter Chain The Struggle to Unionize Within LA’s Biggest Charter Chain

And the lengths that Alliance College-Ready Public Schools will go to stop it.

Mar 1, 2016 / George Joseph

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

The Economic Dilemma Democrats Face in 2016 The Economic Dilemma Democrats Face in 2016

The challenge for any Democratic candidate is to learn—and learn fast—that he or she must be the candidate of fundamental change, not the candidate of continuity.

Feb 23, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Black Workers Matter, Too

Black Workers Matter, Too Black Workers Matter, Too

A movement linking civil rights with the right to organize would narrow the racial wage gap—and reinvigorate American labor.

Feb 18, 2016 / Feature / Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, and Sam Pizzigati

The Union Busting That Goes Into Your Canned Fish

The Union Busting That Goes Into Your Canned Fish The Union Busting That Goes Into Your Canned Fish

A free trade deal between the US and Morocco was supposed to increase development in North Africa—not flame labor conflicts and union suppression.

Feb 17, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Where to Invade Next

Michael Moore’s New Film Playfully Skewers US Exceptionalism Michael Moore’s New Film Playfully Skewers US Exceptionalism

A powerful, optimistic, and radical demonstration of what can be achieved by thinking outside the box—or, in this case, our borders.

Feb 16, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Concrete Plan to Make Black Lives Matter

A Concrete Plan to Make Black Lives Matter A Concrete Plan to Make Black Lives Matter

This is a plan for pressuring whoever is in office, whether they are sympathetic to the causes of racial and economic justice or not.

Feb 13, 2016 / Mychal Denzel Smith

Supports at Silicon Valley Rising Launch

Silicon Valley’s Wealth Gap Silicon Valley’s Wealth Gap

The tech hub is becoming completely unaffordable for the service employees who work there.

Feb 12, 2016 / Michelle Chen

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