Labor
A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town
After decades fighting against water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete against Big Tech for water.
Maximillian Alvarez
After Cornell Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism, its Graduate Student Union Fought Back
Members of Cornell's Graduate Student Union stand in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. candidate and student protestor who was suspended after pressuring the University to divest from Israel.
Maximillian Alvarez
Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement
MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
After Biden Blocked Their Strike, Railroad Workers Weigh the Lesser of Two Evils
“I don’t think the screwing that we got in 2022 [is playing] any factor today,” one locomotive engineer says. “I can’t imagine any worker voting for Donald Trump.”
Maximillian Alvarez
Waffle House Workers, At the Front Lines of Disasters, Demand More
The 24-hour chain famously stays open come hell or high water (inspiring FEMA’s Waffle House Index), but pays workers as little as $3 an hour.
Kim Kelly
Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.
The Right has given us plenty of indications of the dangers a second Trump term could pose to labor. To see how bad things might get, we can look to another example of a brutally anti-labor presidency: Ronald Reagan’s.
Chris Bohner
Chicago Teachers Have an Ally As Mayor—Now They’re Fighting for a Historic Contract
The Chicago Teachers Union is working to use its newfound political power to win a broad set of “common good” demands while realizing a vision of world-class public education.
Kari Lydersen
The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
A discussion with Craig Gent and James Muldoon about the colonial history of tech infrastructure, its human and environmental costs, and how workers around the world are fighting back.
Sarah Jaffe
The Right Believes It Has the Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Labor Law
Unions need to plan a response now.
Shaun Richman
Believe It Or Not, Unions Have Even Bigger Problems than the 2024 Election
With just weeks until Election Day, the current political trends are a warning siren to the labor movement.
Hamilton Nolan
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