Labor
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
National Unions Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Workers
“We have to take actions where we can show that we can win and that help overcome people’s fear.”
Natascha Elena Uhlmann
Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting back.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century
Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline.
Nick French
What Working People's Struggles to Survive The Great Depression Can Teach Us Today
Historian Dana Frank shares the stories of people who survived the Great Depression—and what lessons they offer working people today.
Maximillian Alvarez
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