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How Workers Brought Starbucks to the Bargaining Table

This week, Starbucks and Workers United announced that they’d reached “a constructive path forward” on the future of organizing and collective bargaining at the company.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

LaborInterviewPodcast

How Kaiser Workers Won

Over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked out on a three-day strike, marking the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast

A Major Seattle Sandwich Chain Fired a Union Organizer, Sparking Backlash—and Change

Workers at Homegrown voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UNITE HERE in late 2022. They’ve been fighting for a contract ever since.

Maximillian Alvarez

Departments

Pessimism Is a Luxury We Can't Afford

The fights ahead are daunting—but the world is ours to win.

Dayton Martindale

Viewpoint

Bring Chicago Home is Still on the Ballot Despite Real Estate Industry's Legal Challenge

Real estate interests want Bring Chicago Home off the ballot, but it remains as the city appeals the legal challenge and organizers continue to campaign for its passage.

Asha Ransby-Sporn

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Complicity in Genocide—The Case Against the Biden Administration

Israel’s mass bombardment of civilians in Gaza is being facilitated, aided and abetted by the United States government.

Azadeh Shahshahani and Sofía Verónica Montez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Can Worker Co-ops Bring an End to Crappy Jobs?

“Co-ops create greater wealth in their communities. People keep that money in their communities.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Israel & Palestine

The ADL Wants to Conflate Critiques of Israel with Antisemitism. That Won’t Make Jews Safer.

As conservative pundits mainstream antisemitic tropes, the ADL is instead focused on silencing expressions of Palestinian solidarity.

Samuel Hoadley-Brill

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El sistema de bienestar infantil pone a los niños en riesgo. ¿Es hora de abolirlo?

Durante décadas, los reformadores han intentado arreglar nuestro fallido sistema de servicios de protección infantil. ¿Abolirlo es una idea cuyo momento ha llegado?

Roxanna Asgarian

Labor

Starbucks Just Saw the Largest Single-Day Union Drive in the Company's History

Workers at 21 Starbucks stores across 14 states filed for union elections Tuesday—a landmark in the unionization campaign.

Brett Wilkins

Labor

Immigrants Aren’t “Taking Our Jobs”

Right-wing forces are claiming immigrants are hurting U.S.-born workers. They're wrong—here are six facts to set the record straight.

Daniel Costa and Heidi Shierholz

Israel & PalestineDepartments

“Terrorist” Rhetoric Makes Us All Less Safe

“Terrorism” is a term that lumps everyday Palestinians and Nelson Mandela in with ISIS and white supremacists. Is it time to retire it?

Dayton Martindale

Israel & PalestineComics

How Can We Get Alan Dershowitz to Shut up Forever?

New comics about Alan Dershowitz, the NYPD, COP28 and a fantastic play on The Wasteland.

Feature

Public Ownership of Housing Could Be Closer Than You Think

Forget private developers—cities and states could just build their own housing to solve the crisis. In New York, now there’s a bill to do it.

Mindy Isser

Israel & Palestine

The War on Education—in Gaza and at Home

The Right is using Palestine to further its assault on higher ed and recruit centrists to its cause.

Alberto Toscano

Brandon Johnson Drops ShotSpotter

By fulfilling a campaign promise to end the contract with ShotSpotter, Johnson makes Chicago the largest city to cut ties with the controversial gunshot-detection company. The program could be finished as early as the end of this week.

Siri Chilukuri

LaborViewpoint

Forget Elections. Build Your Union.

Political power comes from labor power. Not vice versa.

Hamilton Nolan

LaborViewpoint

The War on Gaza Is a Labor Issue

Workers in the U.S. can't look away from Israel's assault on Gaza—our labor is helping fuel the war machine.

Paul Stauffer