U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu’s proposed $60 million federal investment in “cultural infrastructure” would lead to the re-hiring of writers, editors, fact-checkers, publishing assistants, librarians, and historians who lost work and income due to the pandemic

Three authors—Jamie McCallum, Sarah Jaffe, and Eyal Press– have published important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form

A look at The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans (Monthly Review Press), a newly published book by Oregon union activist JIm Russell

New working class heroes who hope to build better organizations from the ashes of the old — should check out the writings of a deceased 88-year old New Yorker who knew what he was talking about

How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education

A look at Dissenting POWs, a new book by Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke

New Voice candidates promised to work with state and local AFL-CIO councils to make labor’s political action and workplace solidarity more effective

A look at Tangled Up in Blue: Policing The American City (Penguin Press), by Rosa Brooks

rare contested race for president of the IAFF has given its members a clear choice between a union traditionalist from Boston and a progressive activist who backed massive labor protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a decade ago

Among the groups trying to prevent the GOP from out-organizing the Democratic Party among veterans and military families are the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Common Defense, a national organization of progressive veterans