In our current public conversation about jobs, too often the media and the public point back to the era of the unionized factory job as the golden age. In one.
The latest teacher strike wave is continuing, mostly notably in Chicago. Teachers in Dedham, Massachusetts just went on strike for 3 days and won most of their demands. I was.
The ambitious plans that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have no real chance of passing the Senate and even if they do, the Supreme Court will kill them. They are.
I was interviewed for a really great story at The American Prospect about a topic I hadn't actually thought about too much before this: the Communication Workers of America's culture.
Instacart workers, gig workers who shop for people via an app-based service, are organizing and engaging in a quasi-strike. When she started working for Instacart two years ago, Heidi Carrico.
Sarah Jaffe has a typically excellent article about how the former GM workers at the shuttered Lordstown plant feel about the deal the UAW made with the company. They aren't.
On October 15, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. This act, like many anti-labor laws, had a veneer of a solution to a real.
On October 12, 1898, a racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in the southern Illinois coal mining town of Virden, Illinois. The so-called Battle of Virden demonstrates the ways that.
