LaborDispatch

“Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear

Months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.

Sarah Lazare and Rebecca Burns

Housing

BREAKING: Seattle Defies Landlord Lobby, Votes to Fund Social Housing

Despite a deluge of corporate cash, the measure to fund an ambitious plan for mixed-income, publicly owned housing appears to have won big.

Rebecca Burns

Climate

L.A. Activists Put Price-Gouging Landlords on Notice

Tenant organizers see signs of illegal disaster profiteering on Los Angeles rental sites while 100,000 evacuees seek temporary or permanent lodging.

Rebecca Burns

Housing

Hundreds of Kansas City Tenants Will Strike to Demand Repairs, Rent Caps

Tenants voted to withhold rent on October 1 in a rent strike that could catch fire nationwide.

Rebecca Burns

Housing

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

Rebecca Burns

Housing

A National Tenants Union Has Arrived

Local tenants unions are officially teaming up, to the terror of big landlords.

Rebecca Burns

Election 2024

What Biden's "Rent Cap" Is, and Isn't

It’s an ideological win for the left that won’t actually cap rents–but opens the door to other, bolder federal action.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

These Three Candidates Worked Together to Bring "Sidewalk Socialism" to Their City Council

In spite of India Walton's loss in Buffalo, N.Y., Election Day 2021 still showed promise for socialism on the local level.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Meet the New Generation of "Sidewalk Socialists"

Once elected, how do socialists govern?

Rebecca Burns

Feature

As the Housing Crisis Explodes, the Trump Admin Is Quietly Undoing Its “Eviction Moratorium”

Following a pressure campaign from landlords and real estate groups, the Trump administration is giving landlords more leeway to evict tenants.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Tenants Just Won a Nationwide Eviction Ban. They're Still Fighting to Cancel Rent.

President Trump's surprise eviction moratorium is an election hail-mary. But to stave off a disastrous housing crisis, organizers say Democrats—including Joe Biden—must embrace bolder measures.

Rebecca Burns

Culture

In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.

The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to "pay for itself."

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Warehouse Workers Suspect Amazon’s Promise of PTO for Part-Time Employees Is a Bait-and-Switch

Rebecca Burns

Viewpoint

“I Would Love Medicare for All”: A Nevada Culinary Union Member on Why She Supports Bernie Sanders

While the powerful Culinary Workers Union in Nevada is attacking Sanders' universal healthcare plan, a rank-and-file worker says "a lot of members want Bernie" and support Medicare for All.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Chicago Teachers Didn’t Win Everything, But They’ve Transformed the City—And the Labor Movement

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Chicago’s Citywide Strike Just Spread to Charter School Teachers

Rebecca Burns

Labor

What’s at Stake in Chicago Teachers’ Strike: Whether Unions Can Bargain for the Entire Working Class

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Amazon Worker: Why We’re Bringing the Climate Strike to Jeff Bezos

Rebecca Burns

Labor

From Victories to Union Militancy, 5 Reasons for Workers to Celebrate This Labor Day

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Angry About Low Pay and Sweltering Heat, These Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Organizing

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Chicago’s Charter School Strike Wave Keeps On Winning

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Black Workers Say Walmart’s Background Checks Are Racially Discriminatory

Rebecca Burns

Viewpoint

Tax the Hell Out of the Rich, When They’re Alive and When They’re Dead

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders each have plans to massively raise taxes on the wealthy. But there's no need to choose—we should enact them all.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

The 8 Most Important Labor Stories of 2018

Rebecca Burns

Labor

‘We’re One Union’: Why Chicago Teachers Are Out On the First Charter School Strike in the Country

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Chicago Teachers Just Voted 98% to Authorize the First Charter School Strike in U.S. History

Rebecca Burns

Labor

How European Workers Coordinated This Month’s Massive Amazon Strike—And What Comes Next

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Planned Parenthood’s Union Busting Could Have a Chilling Effect for Workers Everywhere

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Rank-and-File Union Members Are Leading Another Massive Strike. This Time It’s AT&T Workers.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

YMCA Childcare Workers Just Went On Strike. Here’s Why.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Landlords, Your Lease Is Up: A New Movement for Rent Control Is Spreading Across the U.S.

Tenant activists, local unions, community organizations and socialists are leading campaigns to regulate rents and weaken the market's grip on housing.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

INVESTIGATION: The Troubled History of the Fund Tapped for Rahm’s Controversial Cop Academy

$20 million in West Side TIF money for job creation has sat unspent, and another $36 million was "ported" to other districts. Now more than $10 million is being used for a police academy that will create only 100 temporary jobs.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Socialism, Coming to a State Fair Near You

Give us funnel cake, but give us roses too.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

A New Deal for Wall Street

Trump's plans for mass privatization are a colossal giveaway to the 1%—and Democrats helped pave the way.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

A New Deal for Wall Street: Trump’s Plans for Mass Privatization Are a Colossal Giveaway to the 1%

Trump wants to sell off our infrastructure—and Democrats helped pave the way.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

In a Nightmare for Neoliberal Ed Reformers, Chicago Charter School Teachers May Strike This Week

Rebecca Burns

Culture

Sim City and the Worst Ways to End Homelessness

The neoliberal mindset doesn't compute with ethical public policy.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

The Laquan McDonald Email Dump Shows Rahm Emanuel’s Administration in Crisis Mode

A guide to the documents released by City Hall in the aftermath of the Chicago police shooting.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Adjunct Faculty Around the Country Join Fight for 15 Protests

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Under Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Opens the Door to Privatizing Half its Public Housing

Residents fear that a new redevelopment initiative will usher in another wave of displacement.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

‘Uber is a rip-off for its drivers and the public’: Cab Drivers Protest Rideshares in Chicago

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Striking Oil Workers Say They’re Fighting Deadly Working Conditions

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Community College in the Crosshairs

Even as Obama is calling for free community college, California's landmark system is under attack by accreditors allied with ALEC and for-profit schools.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Obamacare Counselor: “On the Surface, People Have Choices. But It’s a Complete Farce”

Rebecca Burns

Labor

The Sharing Economy’s ‘First Strike’: Uber Drivers Turn Off the App

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Adjunct Instructor: ‘I Was Practically Giving My Work Away. It Was Charity.’

Rebecca Burns

Feature

The Tamale Underground

Street vendors must skirt the law to make a living.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

A RAD-ical Housing Experiment

Baltimore public housing tenants will serve as guinea pigs for a new national privatization plan.

Rebecca Burns