Kathy Wilkes is an award-winning labor writer and editor, and a former union organizer, co-founder, officer, negotiator, and communications director. She is based in Madison.

Dispatch
“Words Can’t Articulate the Joy”: Wisconsin Workers Celebrate Scott Walker’s Defeat
As thrilling as defeat of an archenemy may be, activists here take nothing for granted.

Labor
“Words Can’t Articulate the Joy”: Wisconsin Workers Celebrate Scott Walker’s Defeat

Labor
How the NFL Players’ Union Can Block the League’s New Ban on Protests

Labor
Red Cross Is Instructing Truckers to Draw Blood and Nurses to Load Trucks

Labor
Union Rights Were the Difference Between NFL Players Kneeling for the Anthem and Bowing to Trump

Labor
How UAW Won the Wisconsin Kohler Strike

Labor
Scott Walker’s Campaign Failed Because Voters Actually Don’t Want a Union Buster-in-Chief

Labor
In Wisconsin, A Test Case for Right to Work