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Labor

Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

A guide to May Day 2025 actions.

Luis Feliz Leon

FeatureLabor Organizer of the Year

The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario

The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award brings the tough love of a 30-year Teamster to the Amazon organizing effort.

Luis Feliz Leon

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Academic Workers

For its vitality and its protection of members against repression, the movement to organize higher education received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards.

Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers

Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.

Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year

The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer

Why the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.

Nelson Lichtenstein

Feature

Grocery Workers VS Goliath

Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.

Sarah Lazare

InterviewPodcast

A Small Texas Town Takes on Crypto Noise Pollution

The massive new Bitcoin mine is part of a plan to fill in Texas’s energy infrastructure—but it comes at the cost of locals’ health.

Maximillian Alvarez

Interview

The Authoritarian State in Miniature

A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country.

Shane Burley

LaborFeature

Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract

The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.

Kari Lydersen