Working In These Times
Pensions Can Be Labor’s Weapon
Workers' pensions can help seed the ground for the next generation of union members. It's time to go on offense.
Hamilton Nolan
Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt
A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions is suing the Trump administration.
Marjorie Cohn
“Starbucks Is on the Ropes,” Says SBWU President Lynne Fox, Who Is Eyeing a Strike
"Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned," Fox writes. "This includes going on strike if they must."
Lynne Fox
ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers
“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.
Sarah Lazare and Ari Bloomekatz
3 Crises Facing the Labor Movement
The slogan "Organize or Die" has become uncomfortably relevant.
Hamilton Nolan
Why the Canadian Flight Attendants’ Strike Was “A Perfect Storm” for Labor
The government’s “eyebrow-raising” penchant for breaking up strikes met its match in the woman-dominated workforce
Emma Arkell
Trump to Coal Miners: Drop Dead
The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.
Kim Kelly
Immigrant Subway Cleaners in New York Win Millions
The victory surrounds back wages and the dangerous work cleaners undertook during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Luis Feliz Leon
The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat
For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
In Monumental Vote, NEA Teachers Join Chorus Against ADL
In the wake of the National Education Association’s vote to not partner with the Anti-Defamation League, and the union board’s eventual veto, activists discuss teachers’ role in Palestine solidarity—and in union democracy.
Sonia Chajet Wides
Dispatch from the Employer Offensive: Mauser Teamsters Strike Back
Teamsters across the nation are striking to support Chicago factory workers' fight for better wages, working conditions and immigration protections.
Luis Feliz Leon
A Beautiful Rendering of Working-Class Life, Warts and All
In his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong depicts the meeting of New England’s newer low-wage immigrant working class and its older industrial working class.
Steve Early
Republicans Are Attacking the “Idle” Poor, But the Real Freeloaders Are the Rich
The GOP is defending its cruel budget bill with ancient tropes about the industrious rich and “undeserving” poor. It’s time to reverse the script.
Conor Lynch
The Growing Fight for Green Economic Populism
In Chicago and across the country, unions and progressive leaders are implementing policies to address the climate crisis while improving working people’s lives.
Ruthy Gourevitch and Batul Hassan
Student Loan Payments to ICE Agents: Unpacking Trump’s “Big, Disastrous Bill”
Two activists arrested in the fight against Trump’s landmark legislation discuss the bill’s consequences, from student debt to immigration raids.
Maximillian Alvarez
Is “Salting” the Future of Organized Labor?
Founding member of Starbucks Workers United, Jaz Brisack, shares the hard-won lessons they learned taking on a multinational corporation.
Maximillian Alvarez
Truckers, Tired of Being Exposed to Hazardous Waste, Call on the Feds for Help
They say the oil and gas industry is ignoring HAZMAT procedures, endangering them and the communities they drive through.
Kim Kelly
The Battle for the Future of Farmwork
Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing union effort are transforming Upstate New York into a battleground over who will grow our food and under what conditions.
Joseph Bullington