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%.
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AFSCME Sues Its Former Ally: Illinois Governor Pat Quinn
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Puerto Rico: A Bellwether for Public-Sector Unions?
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Remembering Photographer Milton Rogovin
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Illinoisans Call for Minimum Wage Increase
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North American Solidarity Agreement
Steelworkers in the United States and Canada forge ties with Los Mineros in Mexico.
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Hungry for Justice, Restaurant Workers Go for Gold in Chicago
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How Budget Cuts and Privatization Endanger Workers in Psychiatric Hospitals
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Chicago Teachers Vow Renewed Activism Over Revoked Raises
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School’s Out in Chicago, But Labor Struggles Are Just Starting
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Madison March Targets Influential Wisconsin Business Lobby Group
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Report: Walmart Tries to Hide Right-Wing Donations
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Unions Mean Safer Mines: Stanford Law Study
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Workers Comp ‘Reform’ in Illinois Aims to Curb Alleged Abuses
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Supreme Court’s E-Verify Decision Devastating for Employers, Immigrant Workers
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From U.S. to India, the Casualties of Coal
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Warehouse Workers File Second Lawsuit Against Chicago-Area Wal-Mart Contractors
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IBEW Union Sides With Power Industry on Clean Air Rules
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Chemical Industry Regulation Would Create, Not Kill Jobs
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Domestic Workers Form Historic Partnership With AFL-CIO
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From Sudbury to Chicago, Complaints About ‘Blame the Worker’ Safety
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Faculty Unite to Unionize Via Card Check at University of Illinois at Chicago
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From Racism to Lung Cancer, Workers Cope With Life in the Logistics Industry
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Workers Memorial Day: A Call to Memory and Action
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Chicago Power Play: Energy Company Pits Union Members Against Clean Air
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After Detroit School Scandal, Strong Words From ICE Union President
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Unions Join Protests Against Aggressive Immigration Enforcement in Michigan
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Northeastern Illinois University Professors: Still Fighting After All These Years
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At Boston’s PBS Station, Unionbusting Tactics and a Koch Connection
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Job Training Programs on the Chopping Block if WIA Cut
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As Congress Dithers, San Diego Shipyard Workers’ Woes Abound
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Adjunct Faculty Conflict Heats Up at Chicago’s Columbia College
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Stolen Wages and Death Sentences: Stories from the Wal-Mart Worker Tour
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American Workplaces Are Safer…But Not for Everyone
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The Ups and Downs of Chinese Unionists, and the ‘Interests of Humanity’
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From Haymarket to Cairo, Workers’ Struggles Remain Fundamentally the Same
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Q & A With BBC’s Paul Mason on ‘How the Working Class Went Global’
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Temporary Workers on the Auction Block? And the Complicated Economics of Immigration
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Ariz. Bill Drives Immigrant Workers—and Anti-Immigrant Agendas—to Oklahoma
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Strike? Adjunct Faculty Consider Work Stoppage in Chicago and New York
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Wal-Mart Warehouse Workers File Class Action Wage Theft Lawsuit
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Missouri Legislator Wants to Increase Child Labor
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Warehouse Workers Allege Wage Theft, Demand Pay Stubs
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No Romance in Valentine’s Day for Restaurant Workers
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Solidarity in Action: Unionists Across North America to Protest for Mexican Workers’ Rights
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Austerity in Action: Illinois Workers—Public and Private—Still Losing Jobs
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As More Funding Cuts Loom, Transit Union Uses Chicago Election to Leverage Debate
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UE: FBI Investigation Hindered 2009 Bank Protest
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Another Proposed Chicago Wal-Mart Sparks Opposition
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