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Few things are as easily predictable as the path that America is walking down towards its awful, inevitable national political war over…
Hamilton Nolan
Hamilton Nolan is a labor writer for In These Times. He has spent the past decade writing about labor and politics for Gawker, Splinter, The Guardian, and elsewhere. More of his work is on Substack.
In February, Starbucks finally agreed to sit down at the bargaining table with their workers’ union. They agreed to this not out…
Strikes are different from protests. Though protesters frequently say that they are making “demands,” it is more accurate to say they are making…
Political power comes from labor power. Not vice versa. It’s a presidential election year. Are you happy? Excited? Ha. Of course not. Election…
Regular people who are not directly involved in the labor movement often find it hard to get interested in stuff that is…
Regular people who are not directly involved in the labor movement often find it hard to get interested in stuff that is…
The labor movement is a capricious friend – it hands out heartbreak as much as it hands out joy. But every once in a…
Here are four propositions about unions that are, I think, indisputable: 1. The single greatest crisis facing unions is the long term decline…
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains,” philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said in the 18th century. Likewise, the right to strike is…
This week, state legislators in Minnesota passed a package of pro-labor measures that instantly makes the state the envy of workers everywhere. The new laws include…