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How To Build the Zero-Carbon Economy
The Green New Deal sets an ambitious goal. Here’s how to get there. more
By Winona LaDuke
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The Stop & Shop Strike Is Showing There’s Still Power in a Union
Roughly 31,000 employees of the northeastern grocery chain Stop & Shop have been on strike for nearly a week across more than 240 stores in... more
By Michael Arria
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As Tenn. Workers Gear Up for Another Union Campaign, Local Media Shows Anti-Union Bias
In the lead-up to another United Automobile Workers (UAW) vote at Volkswagen in Tennessee, the region’s paper of record is once again providing... more
By Chris Brooks
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Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Won’t Give Up the Fight for Unionization
For the third time in five years, auto workers will vote on whether to form a union at the country’s sole Volkswagen plant,... more
By Chris Brooks
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McDonald’s Retreat on Fighting Wage Increases Shows the Tide Is Turning
In March, the McDonald’s Corporation announced that it would no longer actively lobby against local, state and federal efforts to raise the minimum... more
By Sarah Lahm
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Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them.
In February 2018, West Virginia teachers launched a strike that reawakened a movement. Tens of thousands of teachers from around the country have taken... more
By Christian Addai-Poku and Michael Galant
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Fighting Against Racism—And For a Better Paycheck—On the Docks
“Dockworkers have power.” With that simple statement, Western Illinois University professor and In These Times contributor Peter Cole... more
By Shaun Richman
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We Won Sick Days at Macy’s—And We Did It With Style
When department-store workers fight, we do it fashionably. Have you ever seen a union contract campaign that featured makeovers and feather boas? Read on. We... more
By Nichole Booker and Curtisy Bryant
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Labor Law Doesn’t Apply If You’re in Prison
It should have been a straightforward case: In 2015, Kendall Charles Alexander, Sr., an African-American man who was incarcerated in New Jersey, filed a lawsuit, ... more
By Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
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A Blow But Not Fatal: 9 Months After Janus, AFSCME Reports 94% Retention
The labor union in the crosshairs of the right wing-led effort to gut public sector unions through a landmark Supreme Court case released new membership... more
By Heather Gies
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A Healthcare Industry Built on Premature Death
On the cruelty of private healthcare corporations. more
By Roqayah Chamseddine
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Illinois Manufacturing Workers Locked Out and Fired for One-Hour Strike
As the sun was still rising last Friday morning, employees from Headly Manufacturing outside of Chicago participated in a 6:00 a.m. hour-long unfair labor practice... more
By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Beto O’Rourke Swings and Misses with Working-Class Michigan Voters
O’Rourke’s tabletop tour can’t hide his problematic record on workers’ rights. more
By Valerie Vande Panne
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The Case for Opening Our Borders
Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine. more
By Brianna Rennix
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“We Demand Food for Thought”: UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect
In front of the historic Jane Addams Hull-House Museum on March 19, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) graduate workers began an indefinite strike. The... more
By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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6 Years After Rana Plaza Collapse, an Accord to Improve Bangladesh’s Worker Safety Is in Jeopardy
Today’s clothing retail industry is driven by “fast fashion”—a business model of break-neck production, frenzied trend cycles and ravenous... more
By Michelle Chen
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Brazil’s Labor Unions Prepare for War with Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro
Bolsanaro has lowered the minimum wage, dismantled labor law enforcement and is threatening pension cuts. more
By Michael Fox
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When Sex Workers Do the Labor of Therapists
Sky is a professional escort. She’s been working at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel located in Pahrump, Nevada, for a... more
By Carrie Weisman
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What It Will Take to Build Union Support for the Green New Deal—Despite the AFL-CIO
On March 8, the AFL-CIO’s Energy Committee sent an open letter to Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasting their... more
By Sarah Lazare
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