Cover StoryInvestigation

The Big Business Behind Travel Nursing

During the Covid-19 pandemic, demand for nurses—already understaffed—surged to even higher levels, and travel nurses deployed to fill the gaps.

Alice Herman

LaborInvestigationGoodman Institute

How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster

Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing.

Alice Herman

IATSE Entertainment Workers Are on the Verge of Their First National Strike

Workers are targeting the streaming industry, which has profited massively during the pandemic.

Alice Herman

Labor

Colectivo Is Now the Largest Unionized Coffee Chain in the U.S.—And More Could Follow

After months of waiting, the NLRB finally ruled that Colectivo workers have won their union.

Alice Herman

Dispatch

Black Teachers Defend Their Curriculum From Attacks on Critical Race Theory

With school boards becoming a battleground in the right-wing war on critical race theory, Milwaukee educators are standing up against racist censorship of American history.

Alice Herman

Viewpoint

“Justice Looks Like Abolition”: A Minneapolis Organizer on the Chauvin Verdict

While George Floyd’s killer was found guilty, Miski Noor of the Black Visions Collective says that true justice requires replacing policing with systems of care—and democratic control over public safety.

Alice Herman

Labor

Colectivo Could Soon Become the Largest Unionized Coffee Chain in the U.S.

Workers at the coffee chain are resisting an aggressive union-busting campaign in their fight to organize.

Alice Herman

Feature

Illinois Just Ended Cash Bail. Here's How Organizers Made It Happen.

Illinois is the first state in the country to completely end the use of money bond.

Alice Herman

LaborInvestigationGoodman Institute

Healthcare Workers Are Organizing Like Their Lives Depend On It

Faced with ongoing PPE shortages and employer obfuscation about deadly outbreaks, more hospital staff are seeing on-the-job solidarity as essential work.

Alice Herman

LaborDispatch

Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid the Pandemic

When workers at a pizza joint refused to train the people replacing them, they were fired. Now they're unionizing.

Alice Herman

Labor

How Amy Coney Barrett's Appointment Would Escalate the War on Workers

A conversation with labor activist and legal scholar James Gray Pope.

Alice Herman

Viewpoint

Trump Is Inciting Racist Violence in Kenosha—And Democrats Are Complicit

Democrats are failing to articulate a clear moral vision that is opposed to Trump’s ultra-racist, law-and-order politics.

Alice Herman and Emilio Leanza

Labor

Organizing Against Police Unions Has Invigorated Hollywood’s Labor Movement, Members Say

Alice Herman

Labor

An Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Starve Public Schools—In Favor of Religious Ones

Alice Herman

Labor

In Wisconsin, the Teamsters Faced a Revolt from Below

Alice Herman