Stephen Franklin - In These Times

Meet Alex Han

In These Times is growing: We’re excited to announce that labor organizer and activist Alex Han has joined us as the new Executive Director.

Stephen Franklin is a former labor and workplace reporter for the Chicago Tribune, and was until recently the ethnic media project director with Public Narrative in Chicago. He is the author of Three Strikes: Labor’s Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans (2002), and has reported throughout the United States and the Middle East.

Franklin, who speaks Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish, spent time in Egypt teaching journalists while on a Knight International Press Fellowship. He has received two Lisagor awards for business reporting and a George Polk Award for consumer interest reporting with Marcia Stepanek at the Detroit Free Press in 1983. Franklin lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, director of a local social services agency. The couple have two children.

Game Workers Are About To Take On The Biggest Boss Fight Of All

Long hours, stagnant wages: a look at the landslide of union interest across the industry.

Fighting Anti-Abortion Extremists — And The Boss

Workers fighting to unionize and protect reproductive rights face the threat of retaliation.

In California, Independent Truckers Face Uncertain Future

A California law making it harder for trucking companies to classify drivers as independent contractors is now in effect—with big implications for truckers at America’s largest ports.

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien Vows to “Pulverize” UPS in Fiery TDU Convention Speech

The first TDU-endorsed leader in 30 years sought to meet the hopes of the militant rank-and-file, promising a UPS strike if needed.

In 40 Years of Labor Reporting, David Moberg Never Gave Up on the Working Class

As a staff writer for In These Times from its birth in 1976, Moberg secured a unique position for himself in the small band of the nation’s labor writers.

"We Are Emptying Out Their Shelves": Nabisco Workers’ 5-Week Strike Won by Shutting Down Business as Usual

A beaten-down workforce took on a powerful company—and won.

The Oreo Workers Trump Betrayed

Trump used these workers to win the White House. Their union has fought a losing battle against outsourcing ever since.

The Chicago Tribune Is Finally Union as the Media Organizing Wave Intensifies

After 41 Years, The Teamsters Reform Movement Is Finally Building Power

One Taxi Driver’s Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber

A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer

Meet the Workers Who Took Overnight Buses to Bring the Fight for 15 to McDonald’s Stockholders

Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying “Deaths of Despair”

The War on Workers’ Comp

‘I Didn’t See These Times Coming’: The Economic Despair Behind the Rise in Blue-Collar Deaths

Domestic Workers Emerging from the Shadows

Lawyer: ‘We Should Stay on the Parapets and Keep Fighting’

Leslie Orear, 103, Helped Bring Together Black and White Packinghouse Workers in the 1930s

Pete Camarata, Teamsters’ ‘Best-known Insurgent,’ Had a Resolve of Steel

A Farewell to Retirement Security

What the loss of pensions at Boeing means for U.S. workers.

Colombian Ex-GM Workers Call on U.S. for Help

U.S. Free Trade Deal Hasn’t Ended Struggles for Colombia’s Unions

Hard Times For Turkish Dissenters

Many tout Turkey as a model for "Arab democracy," but its human rights record raises troubling questions

Freedom of the Press Remains Elusive in Turkey

Though the government denies targeting journalists, more than 90 Turkish journalists have spent most of the last year behind bars

Letter from the Syrian Border

An on-the-ground report from the growing Syrian refugee camps in Turkey.

Turkey Arrests Public-Sector Unionists Under Broad Terror Law

‘There Is Not Enough Work’: Nearly Half of Mexicans Now Officially Poor

Below Soaring CEOs, Struggling Black and Latino Youths

Goin’ Backward in Indiana: Muncie’s Omen and the Push for ‘Right to Work’

More Than a Number: Troubling Trends Behind the Dropping Unemployment Rate

Welcome Home Vets: Your Jobs Are Long Gone

Iran’s Simmering Labor Struggle

What’s Happening to Black Families?

A Mumbai Slum’s Quest for Dignity

Egypt’s Workers: All They Needed Was the Courage

What Are the Public Sector Unions to Do?

To Organize Foreign Carmakers, UAW Must Build Transnational Labor Coalition

You Are No One. You Are Without Papers.

Don’t Count on Tomorrow: The New Credo for the Unemployed

Sandy Pope: The Woman Who Would Rule the Teamsters

Restaurant Opportunity Center Offers Ray of Hope in Dire Times

A Workers’ Guide to the Messed-Up Economy

Why You Should Earn Less: the Company’s Argument

The Long Trail North Turns Deadly for Migrants Hungry for Work

A Brief History of Labor Unsolidarity: AFL-CIO and Change to Win

When We Can’t Afford to Be Sick: Access to Healthcare Drops Along with Economy

We All Fall Down? America’s New Economic Reality

50 Years After Murrow’s ‘Harvest of Shame,’ What’s Changed?

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