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Arms and L’eggs: Workers Organize Around Job Ailments

Revisiting labor reporter David Moberg's 1983 investigation on the physical toll of industrial labor at a Hanes knitwear factory.

David Moberg

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Ai Should Replace Your Boss And Other Comics

New comics by Tom Tomorrow, Mattie Lubchanksy, Jen Sorensen and Sam Wallman.

Tom Tomorrow, Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen and Sam Wallman

LaborViewpoint

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

LaborDispatchHousing

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

LaborViewpoint

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

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LaborFeatureLabor Organizer of the Year

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

LaborDepartments

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

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LaborViewpointLabor Organizer of the Year

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

Viewpoint

The War on Vietnam Ended 50 Years Ago and the U.S. Desperately Needs More Action on Agent Orange

Congress Should mark the 50th anniversary by passing new legislation addressing the impact of Agent Orange.

Susan Schnall and Azadeh Shahshahani

FeatureLabor Organizer of the Year

Building Bridges and Erasing Jail Debt: Katherine Passley

The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award co-runs a member-led worker center in Miami for people with criminal records and their families — the first organization of its kind in the country.

Kim Kelly

Labor

Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

A guide to May Day 2025 actions.

Luis Feliz Leon

FeatureLabor Organizer of the Year

The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario

The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award brings the tough love of a 30-year Teamster to the Amazon organizing effort.

Luis Feliz Leon

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Academic Workers

For its vitality and its protection of members against repression, the movement to organize higher education received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards.

Fatima Jalloh

collage of workers with bullhorns and signs, including "Union Strong"

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers

Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.

Fatima Jalloh