Labor
South Baltimore Residents Have Had Enough of Rail Giant Pollution
Curtis Bay residents rallied at the CSX rail terminal with a simple demand: “We have to remove CSX for the health of our communities.”
Maximillian Alvarez
How Big Business Made a Sacrifice Zone out of South Baltimore
Longtime Baltimore residents on the fight for environmental justice and what it feels like to be "sacrificed" by industry.
Maximillian Alvarez
Baltimore Longshoreman on the Key Bridge Collapse: “It’s not surprising that this ship lost power.”
Veteran longshoreman John Blom on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the slow recovery ahead for port workers.
Maximillian Alvarez
Those Who Hate Public Sector Unions Also Hate Democracy. It's Not a Coincidence.
A huge union win in the Fairfax County schools could be the first of many.
Hamilton Nolan
Students, Gaza and a New Vision of Safety
"We Keep Us Safe" is more than a slogan at student encampments. It inspires an avenue to protection and community that undercuts a security state bolstered by genocide—and can show us all a path forward.
Sarah Jaffe
Florida’s Brazen Assault on Public Sector Workers Puts Unions in Survival Mode
More than 50,000 Florida workers have lost their union membership in the advent of S.B. 256.
McKenna Schueler
Corporations Have Very Good Reasons to Break Labor Laws and Bust Unions
Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.
Sonali Kolhatkar
In an Historic Show of Labor Solidarity with Palestine, UAW Local 4811's Stand-up Strike Grows by 12,000
The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz.
Hannah Bowlus
Weaving a Feminist Movement
Women in Bengaluru are unraveling patriarchy, stitch by stitch, song by song.
Panthea Lee (李佩珊)
In Tough Loss, the High-Profile UAW Campaign at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama Falls Short
“This is probably the most strategic and organized union busting campaign in decades,” said one Mercedes-Benz worker.
Sarah Jaffe
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