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Why I’m Voting No on UAW’s Deal With GM: A “Third-Tier” Worker Speaks
After 33 days on strike, the leadership at the United Automobile Workers (UAW) has negotiated a tentative agreement with General Motors (GM). Nearly 49,000 UAW members&mdash... more
By Mindy Isser
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Special coverage: Inside Chicago’s historic teachers’ strike
Over 30,000 Chicago teachers and support staff have taken to the picket lines in a massive strike. In These Times has been on the... more
By In These Times Editors
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Why Are Chicago Teachers Striking Against Mayor Lori Lightfoot? They’ve Been “Lied To” Before.
As a pink sunrise painted the sky on Thursday morning, horns blared seemingly nonstop from semi trucks, commuters’ cars, a concrete mixer and countless... more
By Kari Lydersen
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How to Resolve the Chicago Teachers Strike? Tax the Rich.
The past year of bold worker action in Chicago—which included the nation’s first charter school strikes—is now headed towards... more
By Amisha Patel and Nathan Ryan
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Trump Is Waging a War On Labor Unions, But You Wouldn’t Know It from CNN’s Dem Debate
Last night, CNN and the New York Times co-hosted a Democratic debate in Westerville, Ohio—and even by the standards of the mainstream media,... more
By Michael Arria
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Chicago Teachers Won Public Support for Their Strike. Here’s How.
As 35,000 Chicago teachers, school support staff, and park district workers are set to begin a major strike on October 17, they boast the backing of students,... more
By Jeff Schuhrke
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The coming Chicago teachers strike could be felt across the country
This week, 35,000 teachers and support staff in Chicago are set to walk off the job in a dramatic citywide strike. The strike—which is... more
By Miles Kampf-Lassin
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What’s at Stake in Chicago Teachers’ Strike: Whether Unions Can Bargain for the Entire Working Class
“Solving Chicago’s affordable housing crisis? What’s that got to do with a labor contract for educators?” That&rsquo... more
By Rebecca Burns
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Treated Like Meat: Women in Meatpacking Say #MeToo
At the world’s largest pork processing company, Smithfield Foods, workers say as long as lines are moving fast, supervisors who sexually harass them get a free pass. more
By Lauren Kaori Gurley
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The Corporate Media Failed to Warn Us About the Trump Admin’s Attack on LGBTQ Workers
“Sex,” Katherine Franke, a law professor at Columbia University, told the New York Times, “is a confounding term in our... more
By Andy Lee Roth and April Anderson
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The Powerful New Idea in Elizabeth Warren’s Labor Platform
On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren released her long-awaited labor platform, titled “Empowering American Workers and Raising Wages.” The plan provides unions with a long... more
By Shaun Richman
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After Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Immigrant Workers Are Organizing
On August 7 the poultry towns of central Mississippi suffered the largest workplace raid in the U.S. since 2006. Some 680 chicken-processing workers from seven factories were... more
By Rose Bookbinder
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How Have Health Workers Won Improvements to Patient Care? Strikes.
On September 20, 2,200 nurses represented by the National Nurses United (NNU) went on a one-day strike at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The Chicago nurses... more
By Suzanne Gordon
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Graduate Workers Are Going to Fight Like Hell to Stop the Trump NLRB’s New Rule
At universities across the country, graduate student workers perform essential labor. We teach classes, grade exams and assignments, tutor and mentor undergraduates, maintain labs, and... more
By Jeff Schuhrke
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Trump’s New Labor Pick Eugene Scalia Will Be a Catastrophe For Workers Rights
Working women and men need and deserve a Secretary of Labor—somebody who will look out for their interests, protect them from unscrupulous... more
By Heidi Shierholz, Lynn Rhinehart, Celine McNicholas
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When It Comes to Bereavement Leave, the U.S. Is Unspeakably Cruel
On March 19, 2018, Cindy Christensen took her husband, who had suddenly fallen ill, to the emergency room. Within one or two days, Christensen estimates, her husband... more
By Julianne Tveten
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The Strike Against General Motors Is One Front in a Much Larger Class War
Nearly 50,000 General Motors (GM) auto workers left their posts and marched off the job en masse late Sunday night. Since then, it’s been... more
By Sean Crawford and Maximillian Alvarez
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GM Just Took Away Our Insurance, But They Can’t Stop Our Strike
Just after midnight on September 15, nearly 50,000 members of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) walked off... more
By Steve Frisque, interview by Sarah Lahm
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49,000 Striking Auto Workers Should Vote No on “Two-Tier.” Here’s Why.
Auto workers on strike since midnight at General Motors are between a rock and a hard place—a hugely profitable company making outrageous demands... more
By Jane Slaughter
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