Stop and Shop is the largest grocery store chain in the Northeast and where I usually shop unless I want to signify my class status by paying 50% more at Whole Foods which I never want to do. Yesterday, its workers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts,...
strikes
I was contacted by a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter to give some context to the current Wabtec strike going on in Erie, which is a classic case of an industrial employer.
Workers at a former GE plant that is now owned by a Westinghouse subsidiary are on strike, fighting against the latest round of corporate attacks on a dignified working class..
The teachers' strike movement has moved to Oakland, which is receiving surprisingly little media attention compared to all the other recent strikes. Sarah Jones has a good run-down on what it is about and what is going on: Meager pay. Crowded classrooms. A ratio of...
Boom! West Virginia's educators just won their strike! A few minutes ago, they forced the House to kill the Republicans' pro-privatization bill, 53-45. Strikes work — check out this video.
West Virginia teachers, whose strike last spring started the teachers' strike wave of the last year, are back on the picket line thanks to the Republican state legislature seeking its.
In case you don't realize just how massive the teacher strike wave has been, 2018 saw the most workers strike in the United States since 1986. Teachers make up a huge percentage of them, as you can see from the graph at the top of...
It was no accident that Elizabeth Warren chose to launch her campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Home of the famed Bread and Roses strike of 1912, where textile workers pulled off.
The next wave in the teachers strikes has hit Denver. It's over the most basic issue possible: teacher pay. This is quite resonant in a city that has become unbelievably.
It's entirely unknown what is going to happen this week in terms of the talks over Trump's white supremacist border wall and whether, deal or no, Trump will accept it or whether he liked the first government shutdown so well that he will want Round...
I have often stated that we are living in a golden age of good academic writing from historians, telling challenging stories that people are ready to hear in ways that.
With Sara Nelson, head of the flight attendants union, calling earlier this week for a general strike to end the shutdown, I have a piece in The Atlantic discussing the.