The Wisconsin Idea

LaborDispatch

Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid the Pandemic

When workers at a pizza joint refused to train the people replacing them, they were fired. Now they're unionizing.

Alice Herman

Labor

How Amy Coney Barrett's Appointment Would Escalate the War on Workers

A conversation with labor activist and legal scholar James Gray Pope.

Alice Herman

Viewpoint

Sorry Joe, Countries Don't Have Souls

Joe Biden has framed the election as a battle for “America’s soul.” But what we need are politicians who will fight for the material needs of the people.

Joel Bleifuss

Rural America

Vandana Shiva: The Pandemic Is a Consequence of the War Against Life

The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, biodiversity loss and climate change

Vandana Shiva

What a Just Transition Would Actually Mean for Workers

If there can be a Superfund for toxic dirt, there should be one for workers.

In These Times Editors

Feature

Want to Help Block Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee? Voting Alone Isn’t Enough.

Avoiding conservative dominion over the Supreme Court will require a mass movement of people in the streets as well as an electoral rebuke of Trump.

Michael Arria

Labor

How Trump Is Privatizing the U.S. Immigration System

The administration is allowing industries to directly control guest worker programs.

Maurizio Guerrero

Labor

Trump Is Waging War on the VA's Union, and Workers Are Living in Fear

The biggest public sector union contract in the country could be a disaster without political intervention

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

American Workers Have Lost Control of Their Time. It’s Time To Take It Back.

Whether it’s working longer hours, having no control over work schedules, or scrambling to find enough hours to pay the bills, American workers have lost control of their working time. Getting that time back is crucial—for workers’ well-being, for democracy and for weakening the tyrannical power of the boss.

Micah Uetricht