Chris Brooks is a labor journalist and organizer. He currently works as the field director at the NewsGuild of New York.
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Labor
How Amazon and Starbucks Workers Are Upending the Organizing Rules
Workers are leading. Unions should support them or get out of the way.
Chris Brooks
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Labor
The Wealthy Bosses and Right-Wing Ideologues Behind the Rush to “Reopen”
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Noam Chomsky: The Rich Aren’t Waiting To Build a New World. Why Are We?
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Exclusive Transcripts Show Disgraced UAW President Strongarmed Board To Pick His Own Successor
Chris Brooks
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Labor
How the UAW Went From a Militant, Trailblazing Union to a Corrupt, Dealmaking One
Chris Brooks
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How the UAW Went From a Militant, Trailblazing Union to a Corrupt, Dealmaking One
The 50-year decline that led to Gary Jones' indictment.
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Yes, the UAW Lost Again in Chattanooga. But a Rank-and-File Movement Could Win.
Chris Brooks
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Labor
How Volkswagen Has Gotten Away With Union-Busting
Chris Brooks
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Labor
As Tenn. Workers Gear Up for Another Union Campaign, Local Media Shows Anti-Union Bias
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Won’t Give Up the Fight for Unionization
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Meet the Militant Taxi Drivers Union That Just Defeated Uber and Lyft
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Here’s How Tech Workers and Flight Attendants Are Resisting Immigrant Family Separation
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Beware the Janus Fix That Relies Too Much on Bosses
Chris Brooks
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How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions
A union buster may be coming to your door.
Chris Brooks
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Dispatch
From Sewer Socialism to Server Socialism: Appalachia’s Internet Revolution
Chattanoogans are pioneering public broadband.
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Why We Shouldn’t Fall for the Members-Only Unionism Trap
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Following the Nissan Loss, What Will It Take for Labor to Organize the South?
Chris Brooks
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Labor
The Slippery Slope of “Buy American” Campaigns
Chris Brooks
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Labor
“Don’t Dictate—Negotiate!” Illinois State Workers Authorize Strike
Chris Brooks
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Labor
The Volkswagen Defeat Wasn’t Inevitable—and Labor Can Still Win in the South
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Taxi Workers Strike Over Muslim Ban—And Uber Takes Advantage
Chris Brooks
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Labor
VW’s Company Union Can’t Attract Even 15 Percent of Workers
Chris Brooks
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Labor
SEIU’s “Future Fighters”: “We need a plan for racial justice in every union”
Chris Brooks
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Labor
Indiana Truck Workers Jump-Start Their Union—And Reverse Two-Tier Wages
Chris Brooks
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Labor
IKEA Workers in Massachusetts Walk Out on One Day Strike Amidst Drive to Unionize
Chris Brooks
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Labor
“My Boss Would Yell At Me Every Day Until I Cried”: Lean Production at Volkswagen’s Tennessee Plant
Chris Brooks