Labor

How Labor Journalists Contend With a Constricted and Polarized Media Landscape

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.

Maximillian Alvarez

AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State

Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?

Sarah Lazare

Your 4th of July BBQ Is More Expensive Due to Trump's Policies, Reports Claim

“Thanks to Trump’s tariffs and foreign wars, Americans won’t find any independence from inflation this Fourth of July.”

Brad Reed

Sweeping Federal Indictments of Ice Observers Net Minnesota Unionists

“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”

Sarah Lazare and Amy Livingston

The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed

By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.

Peter Cole

‘¡Demandamos libertad!’: Inmigrantes en huelga en prisión de Nueva Jersey

Luis Feliz Leon

"We Demand Freedom": Immigrants on Strike in New Jersey Prison

“We are also doing this to demand freedom," said one of the workers. "We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

Luis Feliz Leon

New owners gut Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the wake of retaliatory firings, ex-Gazette-Post seek to keep Pittsburgh journalism alive.

Maximillian Alvarez

A Conversation With Graduate Student Workers on Strike at Harvard

More than 4,000 UAW members are on strike at Harvard University.

Maximillian Alvarez

May Day and the Potency of Solidarity Against Division

International Workers' Day, aka May Day, represents a fight for a different vision of society—one where we, not a billionaire minority, can make the decisions that impact our lives.

Miles Kampf-Lassin