The Wisconsin Idea

LaborInterviewPodcast

A Government Shutdown Would Shutter the NLRB. That’s Bad News for Striking Workers.

A government shutdown would place NLRB workers on furlough, leaving striking workers without a crucial ally in their fight.

Maximillian Alvarez

A crowd of striking workers hold up UAW signs and fists, standing in front of two trucks that say Teamsters.

Labor

They Sacrificed to Survive Bankruptcy. They Worked Through A Pandemic. Now, Autoworkers Have Had Enough.

“I want to see them return what they promised to the workers that saved the company,” says a striking Stellantis worker in Minnesota.

Amie Stager

Departments

Conservatives Can't Stop Waging War on Schools

Fifteen years ago, Kate Sheppard reported on the propaganda within the most-used government textbook in America. Now, right-wing fearmongering has once again reared its head in Florida schools.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

The Majority of Polling Places are Inaccessible. A Disabled Voter Bill of Rights Could Change That.

We are seeing a concerted effort to push disabled voters like me out of the democratic process across the South—and we have to fight back.

Dom Kelly

Labor

How the Government Can Help Build Industrial Unions

Money. For organizing. Give it to us.

Hamilton Nolan

LaborEn Español

“La lucha es global”: Trabajadores tras el mundo están en solidaridad con los trabajadores automotrices en huelga

Desde Brasil y México a Sudáfrica y Malasia, la solidaridad laboral internacional está reforzando la lucha de la UAW.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

It Shouldn’t Be a Big Deal That Biden Joined Striking Workers on the Picket Line—But It Is

“The most union-friendly president in U.S. history” may be a low bar, but Biden took another step toward clearing it by standing with Michigan autoworkers out on strike.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

“This Fight Is Global”: Workers Around the World Are Standing With Striking U.S. Autoworkers

From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW’s fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.

Jeff Schuhrke

LaborDispatch

Record Profits, Paltry Contracts Fire Up Chicago-Area Autoworkers to Strike

"It's not fair that [CEOs are] bringing home these millions of dollars and have so many summer homes ... and we're living paycheck to paycheck."

Maia McDonald