Labor
Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on labor including strikes, trade unions, workers’ rights, the gig economy, corporations and their opposition to workers’ rights, democractic workplaces and co-operatives, low incomes and the fight for better wages.
When labor activist Brandon Johnson upset Paul Vallas in Chicago’s 2023 runoff mayoral election, the Left had good cause for optimism. One…
Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the…
Paul Wines helped to kick in the door of the warehouse and heard a sound like a freight train crashing through town.…
Gary Cunningham remembers sitting at the dining room table as a boy, listening to his father relate stories about his work as…
December 11 saw a massive general strike in Portugal. This was not just a workplace dispute but a political strike, directed against…
In recent years, more people around the world have begun to encounter images of Congo’s suffering on their phones: a child emerging…
With less than a year before the next Teamsters general election; and less than two-and-half years since the catastrophic 2023 UPS-Teamsters agreement…
The revanchist government of the day was clearly canny enough to understand that removing Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the rural employment guarantee scheme…
Already before Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, there were dire omens. Poultry workers reported that their supervisors were using Trump’s anti-immigrant…
It is October 2025, and one room in southern Germany was in a rage. The discontent of workers over the loss of…
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