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Trump's First 100 Days Have Been an Absolute Disaster for Workers
Trump has gutted labor rights, slashed the federal workforce, and opposed a minimum wage hike. But resistance is brewing.
Sarah Anderson
Arms and L’eggs: Workers Organize Around Job Ailments
Revisiting labor reporter David Moberg's 1983 investigation on the physical toll of industrial labor at a Hanes knitwear factory.
David Moberg
Putting Reentry Out of Business
Unions must think beyond reform and seriously consider abolition—the elimination and eradication of carceral institutions that exacerbate violence and underprepare people for reentry.
Calvin John Smiley
Home Is Where the Union Is
What tenant unions can learn from labor unions and how they can both work together to win big.
Rebecca Burns
Rise and Unwind
We all work too much. Let’s take up the fight for more freedom and less time on the job.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed
One of this year's Labor Organizer of Year awardees is anonymous. As one of the many immigrant labor leaders braving the risk of deportation, hers is a case study in how Trump is terrorizing immigrants.
Maurizio Guerrero
Why Everyone Should Be Preparing For May Day 2028
If we’re going to build enough collective power to win universal healthcare and the right to retire with dignity, then we need to tighten up.
J. Patrick Patterson
From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power
At Beyond the Bars, we see what others refuse to see: the talent, discipline and vision of the criminalized working class.
Katherine Passley
Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day
A guide to May Day 2025 actions.
Luis Feliz Leon
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
Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
Kim Kelly
Unions Without Strikes
Today's labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.
Hamilton Nolan
National Unions Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Workers
“We have to take actions where we can show that we can win and that help overcome people’s fear.”
Natascha Elena Uhlmann
Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting back.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century
Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline.
Nick French
What Working People's Struggles to Survive The Great Depression Can Teach Us Today
Historian Dana Frank shares the stories of people who survived the Great Depression—and what lessons they offer working people today.
Maximillian Alvarez
‘It’s Elon Versus Everyone’: A Dire Warning From Fired Federal Workers
A discussion with Cat Farman, Jasmine McAllister and Will Munger on the Trump Admin's plans for workers and how we can fight back.
Maximillian Alvarez
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
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Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.