The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Ask a Railroad Worker: How Did Railroad Jobs Get So Bad?

As a national rail shutdown over mounting labor disputes looms in the US, it’s worth asking how we got here from the folks who know best—the workers themselves.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Lessons From a Radical Past: One Man’s Journey Into the Factories in the 1970s

A veteran of the New Left's turn to the factories tells his story.

Peter Olney

Labor

Heat Waves Are Putting Teamsters in Danger

UPS workers say the company is not doing enough to protect employees from scorching temperatures.

Mindy Isser

LaborViewpoint

Monkeypox Is a Workers' Rights Issue

The outbreak of monkeypox shows that workers need protections like paid leave and just cause to help protect public health.

s.e.smith

Labor

Chipotle Shut Down Its Only Unionized Store. Organizers Say It’s Retaliation.

While the company denies the closure is related to union activity, it fits a larger pattern of union-busting efforts at other franchises like Starbucks and Heine Brothers’ Coffee.

Maximillian Alvarez

PalestineCulture

In The Face of Lifelong Terror, Gaza Speaks Truth To Power

A Palestinian asked how many deaths will be enough. He was recently killed.

Refaat Alareer

ViewpointRural America

No, More Pipelines Aren’t the Solution to High Gas Prices

Reviving Keystone XL wouldn’t lower gasoline prices but it would increase carbon emissions, environmental destruction and toxic pollution.

Ted Williams

LaborDispatch

Intelligentsia Workers Vote to Unionize, Fueling the Fire of Coffee Industry Organizing

Workers at the coffee chain have joined fellow baristas at Starbucks and Colectivo in unionizing their workplaces.

Jeff Schuhrke

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

Inside Lockheed Martin’s Sweeping Recruitment on College Campuses

The engineering degree to defense industry pipeline.

Indigo Olivier