Labor

Worker-Owners Cheer Creation of $1.2 Million Co-op Development Fund in NYC

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Why Can’t College Be Free?

Three proposals to reclaim the promise of higher education.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Eviction by ‘Rent-a-Cop’

An Illinois bill could 'privatize' evictions and pave the way for Wall Street abuses.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Pittsburgh’s Nonprofit Pirates

A hospital behemoth dominates the city, pays no taxes and does little for its lowest-paid workers.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Kaplan Teachers Win Contract, Proving For-Profit Ed Can Be Unionized

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Keystone by the Bay

Labor and environmental groups clash in Maryland over fracking.

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Labor

UIC Faculty Rekindle Fight for Public Education With Historic Strike

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

The Unbearable Whiteness of Legalization

Who benefits from marijuana law reform?

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

The ‘Sharing’ Hype

Do companies like Lyft and Airbnb help democratize the economy?

Rebecca Burns

Feature

The Adjunct’s Lament

Even in the ivory tower, work is often solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

UIC Faculty Union Flexes Muscles in Showdown Over Adjunct Pay

Rebecca Burns

Labor

UC Berkeley Professor Sends Heartfelt Anti-Union E-mail To Students on Eve of Strike

Rebecca Burns

Feature

A ‘Historic Moment’ for Campus Solidarity

University of California grad students will join service workers on the picket lines in a rare sympathy strike.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Schoolyard Syndicalists

From the Chicago public school closings, some students emerge radicalized.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Could Grad Students Regain Union Rights? Some Hopeful Signs

Rebecca Burns

Labor

A Free-Speech Victory at the ‘University of Nike’

Rebecca Burns

Feature

A Company Town Becomes Our Town

How a town shadowed by Chevron built a vibrant movement to challenge corporate power.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

University Tries to Nip Professors’ Union in the Bud

A cautionary letter--and the rumored retention of a notorious union-buster--show Northeastern is nervous about adjunct faculty organizing.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

The Devil’s in the Details

If the Senate's bill is so good, why are immigrant rights groups so unhappy?

Rebecca Burns

Indebted Students Expose ALEC’s Assault on Higher Education

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Undocumented Immigrants Win Access to Organ Transplant Waitlists, and a Shot at Life

14 Chicago patients in critical need of transplants went on a hunger strike to change hospital policy.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Is Higher Ed the Next Target of Corporate ‘Reformers’?

The proposed shuttering of City College of San Francisco bears unsettling parallels to K-12 school closings.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

A Fracktious Debate

Greens are divided on whether to regulate fracking or hold out for a ban.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Food Fight: Feminists and Femivores

Is slow food about politics, privilege, or oppression?

Rebecca Burns

Photojournalists Fight Replacement by iPhones

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Mad Professors

The adjuncts are at the barricades.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Out of the Pen and Unrepentant

Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher on the future of climate activism.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Where Unions Went Wrong on ‘Right to Work’

Labor activists retool their tactics against the bosses.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

It’s Not Easy Being Blue and Green

Labor and environmentalists face off over the Keystone XL pipeline.

Rebecca Burns

How Chicago Workers Went From Occupation to Cooperative

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Can Co-ops Save Unions?

Labor-cooperative partnerships may herald a new strategy for labor--if they can get off the ground.

Rebecca Burns

Indiana University On Strike Against Tuition Hikes

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1 in 3 Foreclosures Were Triggered by Bank Error

Rebecca Burns

Newark Students Walk Out Over School Closings: Is a Bigger Fightback on the Way?

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Domestic Insurgents

In organizing domestic workers, a feat once thought impossible, Ai-jen Poo has transformed the labor movement.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Is Life Without Parole Any Better Than the Death Penalty?

Maryland is poised to be the 18th state to abolish capital punishment, in favor of lifetime imprisonment.

Rebecca Burns

Pencils Down: Faced With Mass Closings, Chicago School Activists Mull a Testing Revolt

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Shot, Then Shut Out

Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods have no access to trauma care.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

VAWA: A Victory for Women—But Which Women?

Advocates cheer the renewal of Violence Against Women Act after a 500-day delay, but question its approach.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

The Frontlines of Feminism

Is the end of the combat exclusion rule a win for all women?

Rebecca Burns

Winning the Whale Wars

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Prison Prep School

'Zero-tolerance' and 'tough-on-crime' policies put students in a school-to-prison pipeline.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Supermax Showdown

AFSCME wants Illinois' Tamms Correctional Center to stay open. Activists want it closed.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

The War on Trafficking

Will California's crackdown do more harm than good?

Rebecca Burns

One Month into Hunger Strike, Injured Colombian Worker Says He Won’t Stop Until GM Negotiates

Rebecca Burns

Banking on Detention: Demonstrators Call on Wells Fargo to Divest from Private Prisons

Rebecca Burns

After Failed Death Penalty Repeal, California Could See Spate of Executions

Rebecca Burns

Feature

You Are Not A Loan

Is a debt strike the future of Occupy?

Rebecca Burns