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Labor

Why Nurses at This LGBTQ-Affirming Healthcare Provider Threatened to Strike

Workers at Howard Brown Health in Chicago are set to walk out next week after months of stalled negotiations.

Hannah Faris

LaborViewpoint

Teachers and Other Unionists Are Joining Iran’s Gender Justice Uprising

As part of the nationwide protests in Iran, women union members are taking to the streets, saying: “we have nothing to lose but our lives.”

Alborz Ghandehari

Labor

One Year Later, Friends and Family of Kroger Employee Driven to Suicide Want Justice

The tragic suicide of Evan Seyfried has been linked to targeted bullying and harassment by coworkers and management at Kroger—his loved ones are still seeking answers and justice.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Home Depot Workers Have Filed to Form the First Union at the Retail Behemoth

Home Depot workers tried to get the company to address low pay, lack of training and understaffing. No one listened, so they're unionizing.

Jonah Furman

Viewpoint

The Left Should Double Down on Electoral Organizing

To build power and transform communities, socialists and movement organizers need to engage in the electoral arena.

Alicia Garza

Feature

The App ICE Forces You To Download

Under Biden, monitoring of immigrants by cell phone has jumped 808%.

Maurizio Guerrero

Climate

Opposition from Progressives and Republicans Could Sink Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Permitting Deal

The West Virginia senator is “getting desperate” as objections to his permitting deal grow louder, saying he’s a victim of “revenge politics.”

Jake Johnson

FeatureCover Story

A Left Answer to Inflation

It is time to forsake the Chicago school of economics.

Hadas Thier

Departments

Lula: The Once and Future President?

On the eve of the presidential election in Brazil, which will pit former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, In These Times revisits Lula’s first year in power.

In These Times Editors