Labor

Putting Reentry Out of Business

Unions must think beyond reform and seriously consider abolition—the elimination and eradication of carceral institutions that exacerbate violence and underprepare people for reentry.

Calvin John Smiley

Home Is Where the Union Is

What tenant unions can learn from labor unions and how they can both work together to win big.

Rebecca Burns

Rise and Unwind

We all work too much. Let’s take up the fight for more freedom and less time on the job.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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

Why Everyone Should Be Preparing For May Day 2028

If we’re going to build enough collective power to win universal healthcare and the right to retire with dignity, then we need to tighten up.

J. Patrick Patterson

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

Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

A guide to May Day 2025 actions.

Luis Feliz Leon

Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract

The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.

Kari Lydersen

Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.

Kim Kelly

Unions Without Strikes

Today's labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Hamilton Nolan