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Labor

Union Density Went Up Last Year! Don't Get Too Excited.

When you do the math, the story is not as great as it seems.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

Against Loving Your Job

"We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will."

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

Chicago Teachers Are Showing the Country How to Fight an Unsafe Reopening

As the mayor tries to force them back into schools, teachers may be headed into another strike.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

How the Deep Roots of Farm Labor Solidarity Helped Wisconsin Survive the Pandemic

A century of agrarian organizing pays off.

Hannah Faris

Feature

Columbia Students Wage the Largest Tuition Strike in Nearly 50 Years

Students are demanding the university lower the cost of attendance and boost financial aid.

Indigo Olivier

Labor

With Minimum Wage Victory in Reach, The Fight for $15 Vows Bigger Things to Come

Leaders are setting their sights on a national collective bargaining agreement.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The Little Known, Racist History of the 911 Emergency Call System

The 911 system we have today was created in response to the 1967 civil rights protests.

Katrina Feldkamp and S. Rebecca Neusteter

Labor

The Two Things Unions Traded Away That Handed Workers to Trump

Industrial workers know their unions can't stop plant closures.

Staughton Lynd

LaborDispatch

Here's Why the People Who Pick Our Food Are Going Hungry During Covid

Historic discrimination has left farmworkers with fewer protections than other workers, a practice known as agricultural exceptionalism.

Allison Salerno

ViewpointFeature

A Recipe for Making Change in Biden's Washington

To make it happen, progressives must learn to co-govern and build more power.

Robert Kraig

Rural America

Growing Food in Self-Defense

For years, Black folks in this small South Carolina town have tended gardens and raised animals to build personal resilience and protect their culture.

Gillian Richards-Greaves

Labor

UAW Members Have an Historic Opportunity to Democratize Their Union

The UAW has been a one-party union for decades. That could all change.

Nelson Lichtenstein

LaborViewpoint

The “Essential Worker” Swindle

How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

These Cargill Workers in Turkey Have Spent Over 1,000 Days Protesting Their Unfair Firing

A conversation with Suat Karlikaya, a lead organizer with the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers Trade Union of Turkey.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

A Presidential Inauguration Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun

Presidents change, but the soldiers stay the same.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

How to Win Medicare for All Under President Biden

With a Democratic White House and Congress, we have an opportunity to organize like never before to finally achieve a universal, single-payer healthcare system. Let’s seize it.

Michael Lighty

Labor

The Labor Movement Has a Game Plan for the Biden Era

This time, unions intend to get something done.

Jeff Schuhrke

Viewpoint

We Don't Need to Do This To Ourselves

Turning the nation's capital into an armed camp for Biden's inauguration to prove we don't live in fear.

Hamilton Nolan