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May 2025 Volume 49, Issue 04

Labor
Rise and Unwind Miles Kampf-Lassin
Why Everyone Should Be Preparing For May Day 2028 J. Patrick Patterson
Feature
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
The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer Nelson Lichtenstein
Labor Feature
Donald Trump's Disastrous Scott Walker Moment

Trump and Elon Musk are making drastic cuts to the federal workforce. Unions are fighting back.

Sarah Jaffe
Solidarity fist in the air to represent unnamed award winner
Labor Feature Labor 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
Feature Labor 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
Feature Labor 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
Feature
Grocery Workers VS Goliath

Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.

Sarah Lazare
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
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
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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