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Working » June 15, 2018

The Food Stamp Work Requirement Is a Scheme to Punish Hungry Americans

Growing up in Boonville, California in the 1990s, a friend of mine would sometimes jokingly use the phrase "the beatings will continue until morale improves."... more

BY Jim Pugh
  • Trump’s Labor Dept. Has Declared War on Tipped Workers

    In October, the Trump administration published a proposed rule regarding tips which, if finalized, will cost workers more than $700 million annually. It is... more

    By Heidi Shierholz and David Cooper
  • In Wisconsin, the Teamsters Faced a Revolt from Below

    Every day, Nikki Sampson drives from her home in Portage to Madison, where she works as a dispatcher for the city’s bus service.... more

    By Alice Herman
  • How Supporters of the Green New Deal Are Showing Up for Workers

    Calls for a “just transition” have become central to a robust and revitalized environmental movement in the United States aimed at preventing climate... more

    By Elizabeth King
  • What Other Unions Can Learn from the Historic Gains We Won in the Chicago Teachers Strike

    As a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) student from first grade through high school, and in my 17 years of teaching in the system, none of my... more

    By Jackson Potter
  • Southern Workers Unite Around Medicare for All: “A Tremendous Liberation From Your Boss”

    Workers from across the South converged in Charlotte, N.C., on September 21 to kick off a Medicare for All campaign. more

    By Jonathan Michels
  • The Strike at McDonald’s Is About More Than Fighting Abuse—It’s About Workplace Democracy

    On Tuesday, over 1,000 people gathered for a strike action at a McDonald's location on Detroit’s East Side. The workers, who were... more

    By Eli Day
  • Arkansas Teachers Went On Strike. Here Are the Corporate School Privatizers They’re Up Against.

    Teachers of Little Rock, Arkansas went on strike Thursday over the state’s decision to strip their collective bargaining rights and curtail... more

    By Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman
  • Uber CEO Forgives Saudi Arabia for a Brutal Murder, But Punishes Drivers for Small Errors

    In an Axios interview that aired on HBO last Sunday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made a troubling analogy. Discussing Uber’s ties... more

    By Audrey Winn
  • Cheerios Picket Line Averted: After Strike Threat, General Mills Workers Win Tentative Agreement

    On Friday, over 500 workers narrowly avoided a strike at General Mills’ production facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. more

    By Katie Rose Quandt
  • Want To Build the Labor Movement? Get a Job at a Union Workplace.

    The case for the rank-and-file strategy. more

    By Laura Gabby
  • 90% of Workers Aren’t in a Union. Labor’s Future Depends on Them.

    The labor movement needs more organic leaders, not a militant minority. more

    By Andrew Dobbyn
  • Labor Needs To Embrace Social Justice Unionism

    A successful rank-and-file strategy must look beyond the workplace. more

    By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
  • The Climate Strikers Walked Out of School. Next, Let’s Walk Off the Job.

    This September, the world erupted when over 7 million people — young and old—poured into the streets for the Global Climate Strike.... more

    By Sydney Ghazarian
  • With the Help of Teachers Unions, the Climate Strikes Could Be Moving Into Phase 2

    As young people across the country join the global movement to mobilize school strikes to demand climate action, one group is starting to think more... more

    By Rachel M. Cohen
  • Chicago Teachers Didn’t Win Everything, But They’ve Transformed the City—And the Labor Movement

    Chicago teachers and staff returned to the classrooms Friday after more than two weeks on strike. Their walkout lasted longer than the city’s... more

    By Rebecca Burns
  • When Unions Save Lives

    The threat of fines doesn't always make mines safer. But unions can. more

    By Austyn Gaffney
  • Chicago Teachers Are Carrying the Torch of Decades of Militant Worker Struggles

    “I solemnly swear that I will never stop fighting for my students.” This hand-made picket sign, one of hundreds at an October 25 Chicago... more

    By Sarah Lazare
  • Over the Last Week, At Least 85,000 Workers Were Out on 13 Different Strikes

    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 485,000 U.S. workers were involved in strikes and lockouts during 2018. That’s the highest number since 1986.... more

    By Michael Arria
  • Chicago’s Citywide Strike Just Spread to Charter School Teachers

    More than 32,000 Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers and staff—one out every 100 people in the city—have been on strike since October 17. On... more

    By Rebecca Burns
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