The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint
Low-Wage Corporations Are Fleecing Their Workers to Massively Inflate CEO Pay
Why don’t low wage workers earn more? Because their bosses plowed $522 million into manipulating their stock price—and CEO paychecks—instead.
Sarah Anderson
Departments
Debtor Organizing Can Transform Our Individual Financial Struggles Into a Source of Collective Strength
Alone, our debt is a liability. Together, it’s our leverage.
J. Patrick Patterson
Labor
Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, 2014–2016
United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl.
Alex Caputo-Pearl
Masked barista stands behind counter
Labor
The Baristas Who Took Over Their Café
Baltimore’s 230-year-old tradition of workplace democracy is experiencing a revival.
Osita Nwanevu
Can a National Strike Save a Closed Plant? A Town Depends On It.
The UAW is calling up locals to stand by Stellantis workers in Belvidere, Ill., who were promised a reopening.
Sarah Lazare
EWOC Is Modeling a Path Forward for Labor
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is providing crucial lessons for unions and organizing everywhere. It might be an example of labor’s best bet.
Eric Blanc
ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris Says “We’re Not Going Back.” But What’s Her Plan Forward?
In last night’s presidential debate, Harris outperformed Trump. Yet she was light on policy specifics and failed to articulate how her agenda would mark a clean break from the past.
Branko Marcetic
Comics
New Midwest Comics: Sewer Socialists and Police Snipers
Kirk Anderson and Nate Powell
"Grief Is a Rupture": Sarah Jaffe's New Book on Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
In her new book "From the Ashes" In These Times columnist Sarah Jaffe examines the intersections between grief and organizing for a better world.
Sarah Jaffe
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