May 2025 Volume 49, Issue 04
May 2025
Labor
Putting Reentry Out of Business
Calvin John Smiley
Home Is Where the Union Is
Rebecca Burns
Rise and Unwind
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed
Maurizio Guerrero
Why Everyone Should Be Preparing For May Day 2028
J. Patrick Patterson
Feature
The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario
Luis Feliz Leon
Grocery Workers VS Goliath
Sarah Lazare
Comics
Ai Should Replace Your Boss And Other Comics
Tom Tomorrow, Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen and Sam Wallman
Labor Organizer of the Year
In These Times Honors Academic Workers
Fatima Jalloh
In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers
Fatima Jalloh
The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer
Nelson Lichtenstein
LaborDepartments
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
ComicsComics
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
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
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
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
Labor Organizer of the Year
The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer
Why the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.
Nelson Lichtenstein
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