Labor

What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”

How incarceration and labor are bound together.

Calvin John Smiley

Working People Are Being Fleeced to Pay for a Bloated Military Budget

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.

Danaka Katovich

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