What Rydell High School Can Teach Us about the LA Teachers Strike What Rydell High School Can Teach Us about the LA Teachers Strike
As teachers in Denver and Oakland head toward their own strikes, it’s worth doubling down on the lessons from LA.
Feb 7, 2019 / Feature / Sarah Jaffe
How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck
If T-Mobile and Sprint merge, it could drive down wages for retail workers by thousands of dollars a year.
Feb 6, 2019 / Michelle Chen
Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000 Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000
Inside an analysis of corporate legal culture.
Feb 1, 2019 / Michelle Chen
It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers
The bland, familiar language of “shutdown” coverage fails to capture the crisis into which federal workers and their families have been thrust.
Jan 23, 2019 / John Nichols
‘This Is Much Bigger Than Us, Than Our Union, Even Than Our City’ ‘This Is Much Bigger Than Us, Than Our Union, Even Than Our City’
How LA’s teachers joined forces with the community and won a landmark labor contract.
Jan 23, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe
The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike
In 2014, a progressive Union Power caucus took over UTLA—and that has made all the difference.
Jan 19, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe
Stories the Fashion Media Won’t Tell Stories the Fashion Media Won’t Tell
Why are fashion outlets ignoring Bangladeshi garment-worker protests?
Jan 18, 2019 / Minh-Ha T. Pham
These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy
Though Orbán sought to stamp out dissent and free thought in Hungary, he only made us call out to one another in solidarity.
Jan 16, 2019 / StudentNation / Rosa Schwartzburg
‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’ ‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’
Yes, raises are important, but LA’s teachers are striking so their students have a fair shot at an education.
Jan 15, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe
Forgotten France Rises Up Forgotten France Rises Up
France’s Yellow Vests took just one month to challenge policies on taxation, education, transport, and environment—and make the Macron government back down
Jan 15, 2019 / Serge Halimi