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Labor

The Cost Of Salt

India’s salt-production industry has seen massive growth over the past 75 years, but the working conditions of the country’s salt pan workers are deteriorating.

Pragathi Ravi

Housing

Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike

How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.

Rebecca Burns

Housing

Chicago’s Push for “Just Cause” Evictions

A new ordinance would stop landlords from evicting willy-nilly.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.

Kim Kelly

ViewpointPolitics

Two Years After Electing a Mayor, Chicago’s Left Keeps Contesting for Power

Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with more than a dozen organizers about what we’ve won, what we’ve learned about power and what’s still to be done to deliver a more equitable city.

Asha Ransby-Sporn

Viewpoint

Forget America First—Under Trump, It's Corporations First

Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.

Rick Claypool

PalestineInterview

The Best Protection For Students Is a Mass Movement

A conversation with Momodou Taal, the Cornell student suing the Trump Administration for repression against students.

Nidaa Lafi and Momodou Taal

Labor

Agreement Around Freelance Contributors to In These Times

LaborViewpoint

Trump's First 100 Days Have Been an Absolute Disaster for Workers

Trump has gutted labor rights, slashed the federal workforce, and opposed a minimum wage hike. But resistance is brewing.

Sarah Anderson

ViewpointPalestine

Mainstream Media’s Anti-Palestinian Double Standard Is On Full Display

Another day, another racist attack on Rep. Rashida Tlaib that our media completely ignores.

Adam Johnson

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

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

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