Labor Organizer of the Year
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Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed
One of this year's Labor Organizer of Year awardees is anonymous. As one of the many immigrant labor leaders braving the risk of deportation, hers is a case study in how Trump is terrorizing immigrants.
Maurizio Guerrero
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From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power
At Beyond the Bars, we see what others refuse to see: the talent, discipline and vision of the criminalized working class.
Katherine Passley
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Building Bridges and Erasing Jail Debt: Katherine Passley
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award co-runs a member-led worker center in Miami for people with criminal records and their families — the first organization of its kind in the country.
Kim Kelly
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The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award brings the tough love of a 30-year Teamster to the Amazon organizing effort.
Luis Feliz Leon
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In These Times Honors Academic Workers
For its vitality and its protection of members against repression, the movement to organize higher education received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards.
Fatima Jalloh
Labor Organizer of the Year
In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers
Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.
Fatima Jalloh
Labor Organizer of the Year
The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer
Why the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.
Nelson Lichtenstein
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