Amien Essif - In These Times

Amien Essif is a regular contributor to Working In These Times and maintains a blog called The Gazine, which focuses on consumerism, gentrification, and technology with a Luddite bent. His work has also appeared on the Guardian and CounterPunch. You can find him using Twitter reluctantly: @AmienChicago

How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing

The next Baltimore could be somewhere in Europe.

A View of Germany’s Economy from Die Linke, the Left Party

Germany Just Passed Its First-Ever Minimum Wage Law—And It Covers Interns

The 9 Most Important Victories for Workers in 2014

Illinois Public Employees Prepare for a Bruising Fight with Bruce Rauner

Want Thanksgiving Off? Follow These Whole Foods Workers’ Example and Go On Strike

Your Next Bike Share Ride May Be Powered By Union Labor

Walmart’s Inhumane Policies for Pregnant Workers

Grave Digger: “You’ve Got to Uphold Some Type of Integrity”

After Defeating Democrats, Will Ohio Unionists Form a New Labor Party?

Fast-Food Workers Turn Up the Heat

McDonald’s Is ‘The Boss’—and That’s a Good Thing

Receptionist: ‘It’s Basically Just a Job That I Do During the Day’

A Staples Diet for Postal Workers

Jess Spear, Socialist of the Sawant Persuasion

Biggest Fast-Food Worker Strike Yet Covers Six Continents

In Texas, Construction Reform Has an Unlikely Champion

Tennessee Labor Activists Bring ‘Moral Monday’ to May Day

SeaTac Workers Fight for Their 15

Is Seattle’s Rideshare Crackdown Actually a Win for Taxi Drivers?

Exotic Dancers Sue Strip Club for Labor Law Violation

Told To Clock Their Hours, Some Illinois Professors Protest

The 10 Biggest Wins for Labor in 2013

How Chicago Whole Foods Workers Won Back Thanksgiving

Ten Arrested at Chicago Wal-Mart in Black Friday Civil Disobedience

The Sub-Subminimum Wage: Is It Legal to Pay $2 an Hour?

Get the Door, It’s Domino’s (Drivers, Suing for a Fair Wage)

A Bill of Rights for the Homeless

Several states are considering guaranteeing civil rights for those without a roof over their heads.

Thousands Protest Verdict in Trayvon Martin Killing

Chicago 11th-Graders Walk Out in Defiance of State-Mandated Test

Bush OK-ed Torture After 9/11, Says Bipartisan Report

The Hilarious Exxon Spoof That Was Blocked From Airing

Bernie Sanders, Bank Buster

Colorado Pot Tax May Exceed 30 Percent

Gun Control Profiteers: How Hedge Funds Capitalized on Sandy Hook

Anderson Cooper ‘GLAAD’ to Be Gay

SNL Lays Into Justice Scalia and His Rant on “Racial Entitlement”

Al Jazeera: Bradley Manning’s Plea, And Why He Did It

Boeing Supply-Chain Workers Vote to Strike

Farmer’s Clever Case Against Monsanto Didn’t Sway Supreme Court

Thom Hartman: Will the Historic DC Climate Rally Make Change?

Bill Moyers and Susan Crawford on Slow, Costly and Unfair Internet Access in U.S.

‘So God Made a Farmworker’: Superbowl Ad Spoof

Last Straw for Chicago Embroiderers: Working Through Thanksgiving

Former GM Autoworker on Hunger Strike for Over 70 Days with Lips Sewn Shut

TN Senator Proposes To Cut State Diversity Programs—in the Name of MLK

Gabby Giffords Urges Senate to “Act Now” on Gun Control

In Paris, More Than 100,000 Demonstrate in Support of Gay Marriage