Kari Lydersen - In These Times

Kari Lydersen is a Chicago-based journalist, author and assistant professor at Northwestern University, where she leads the investigative specialization at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Her books include Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99%.

United Workers Win WARN Act Victory in Baltimore ESPN Zone Case

Coal Mining the Old-Fashioned Way

The Death Blow for British Coal

New revelations have surfaced about police brutality in Thatcher's 1984 battle with miners.

Illinois Coal Bankruptcy: Good News for Environment, Bad News for Workers

Fighting Fiscal-Cliff Cuts, Home Care Workers and Employers Forge Alliance

Rahm the Grinch? Janitors Say Emanuel Is Stealing Their Christmas

Workers on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Start a ‘Fight For 15’ (Dollars Per Hour)

Opponents Cry Foul as Arizona Copper Mine Blames Congress for Layoffs

Facing Job Losses and Wage Cuts, Chicago Airport Janitors Pay Rahm Emanuel a Birthday Visit

The Freelance Life: Blessing or Curse?

Harry Malkin: From Pit to Paintbrush

Chicago Passes Austerity Budget with Little Debate (But More Than Usual)

Airports Go Green … And, Labor Leaders Fear, Bust Unions

Activists Arrested Confronting Dick Durbin About ‘Fiscal Cliff’

Chicagoans dressed as Robin Hood staged civil disobedience at the Majority Whip's office.

At ‘Official’ Budget Hearing, Chicagoans Find Official Indifference and Empty Chairs

Chicagoans Ask City Councillors To Fight Emanuel’s Cruelest Cuts

Chicago Chicanos ‘Read Out’ in Solidarity with Tucson

At Alt Budget Hearing, Chicagoans Decry Privatization and Job Cuts

New Contract Spells Good News for 1,200 Chicago Airport Workers—Unless City Moots It

Chicagoans Give Rahm Emanuel Poor Grades

The Original Coal Country

Lessons From Essen: What the U.S. Rust Belt Can Learn From Germany

Lawsuit Sheds Light on Murky and Dangerous Warehouse Sector

City Janitors Are Latest To Feel Sting of Emanuel’s Cost-Cutting

Illinois Unions Fight Prison Closures

Romney’s Bain in the Ass

Chicago Teachers Move Toward Strike (Updated)

Rahm Emanuel’s ‘Leaky Jobs Pipeline’ Exposed

Not-For-Profit Hospitals Make Billions—and Provide Little Charity Care

Chicago: Occupiers of Mental Health Clinics Face Trial

Chicago Protesters: “Take TIFs Off the Menu!”

NLRB Rules In Favor of Chicago’s Columbia College Professors

Global Hyatt Boycott Heats Up

Hyatt Worker Cathy Youngblood: We’re Not Going To Stop “Until We Get What We Need”

Making Health Care Reform Work: A Perspective from California Doctors

Going Undercover to Determine the Real Price of Sex

Complaint Filed Against California Walmart Warehouse

New York Cabbies Celebrate

Chicago Coal Gasification Plant: Good Jobs or Bad Gas?

Rio Tinto Smelter Workers, United Steelworkers Reach a Deal

Radical History from Bristol to Chicago

Our Kind of (Torturing) Town

Journalist John Conroy's first play chronicles a police brutality scandal in Chicago.

Shafted: Reflecting on Miners, Media and Margaret Thatcher

Irish Farmers Say Shell Oil Operations Bring Injustice, Not Jobs

Chicago Teachers Union Takes the Upper Hand with Overwhelming Strike Vote

Youth Sex Workers Organize for Their Rights

Unhappy Father’s Day! Paid Paternity Leave Far From Reality in United States

Black Days for the Irish Economy

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