Move to a 4-Day Workweek?
Not for Lower Pay! By Sonali Kolhatkar Dolly Parton’s signature song “9 to 5,” and the 1980s sitcom of the same name reflect a quintessentially American hustle culture of working 40 hours a week in…
June 2023
How to Win a Green New Deal in Your State
By Ashley Dawson New York just became the first US state to pass a major Green New Deal policy. After four years of organizing, the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) is now in the New…
Workers in the South Are Winning
By Tom Conway Workers at Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Georgia, launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance, and a voice on the job. The company resisted them. History defied them….
‘Not a Radical Idea’
Sanders Calls for 32-Hour Workweek with No Pay Cuts By Jake Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders in early May called for a 32-hour workweek with no pay cuts for U.S. employees, pointing to the overwhelmingly positive…
Coercion, Exploitation In Prison Labor
University of Chicago Law School and ACLU produce groundbreaking report Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to…
Building Anti-Carceral Unionism
A Q&A On Local 79’s “Real Re-Entry” Campaign in New York City Han Lu interviews Bernard Callegari Starting in the spring of 2021, the National Employment Law Project teamed up with New York’s Construction &…
Debt Ceiling ‘Debate’ a Massive Deception
Commentary by Richard D. Wolff Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily…
The Inflation Reduction Act Is an Invitation to Organizers
Kate Aronoff The Inflation Reduction Act would not have happened without the movement for a Green New Deal, but it shouldn’t be confused for one. The climate left (broadly defined) now faces a novel problem:…
‘Cop City’ and the Struggle for Climate Justice
By Stan Cox Along the South River, in the southwest corner of DeKalb County, Georgia, lies a forested area of about 300 acres that has been owned by the nearby City of Atlanta for over…
Recycling Plastic Makes Microplastics by the Ton
By James Bruggers Research out of Scotland suggests that the chopping, shredding and washing of plastic in recycling facilities may turn as much as six to 13 percent of incoming waste into microplastics—tiny, toxic particles…