Making ‘Tax the Rich’ More Than a Slogan
By Max Page Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine. Here’s what passing the Fair Share Amendment in Massachusetts allowed us to do, in just the…
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Employers and Unions Shielding
LA Workers from ICE By Jeremy Lindenfeld A lot of undocumented immigrants—and their employers— remember when the siege began. Federal immigration agents equipped with tactical gear and rifles descended on downtown Los Angeles in armored…
Durham’s Only Unionized Starbucks Holds Practice Picket
By Durham Dispatch On Oct. 27, Starbucks workers and union supporters gathered outside the Renaissance Center location for a practice picket. The store is one of three in the Triangle area represented by Starbucks Workers…
How NC Is Rising Up Against Trump’s
Anti-Immigrant Crackdown By Chris Kromm United States Border Patrol gave city leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, just two days’ notice before unleashing “Operation Charlotte’s Web” on November 15, the latest in a series of immigration…
Duke Grad Student Union’s Historic Win
By Max Tendler After two years of strikes and 32 negotiation sessions with University administration, Duke Graduate Student Union has ratified its first contract—the first agreement for unionized graduate students in the South. DGSU members…
“We didn’t lose, we learned”
Amazon Union Campaign Expands to Durham By Brandon Kingdollar The campaign to unionize Amazon has set its sights on Durham, with Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment launching an organizing drive outside the company’s…
Library Admins Using Public Money
to Hire Union Busters By Emily Drabinski On any given day in Howard County, Maryland, teenagers play Dungeons & Dragons, adults practice English conversation skills, and toddlers and their caregivers play together, all in clean…
Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?
Commentary by John Miller The U.S. economy continues to grow, at least for now. But job creation has come to a near halt. That got the attention of Federal Reserve Board chair Jerome Powell. In…
Tech Workers Versus Enshittification
Now is the time for tech workers to get organized By Cory Doctorow The men who appeared on the dais behind President Trump at his inauguration were never good men. Take Tim Cook. Cook owes…
Gigs That Work For All
California pilot program offers new blueprint for workforce development By David Weil and Pronita Gupta For over a decade, academics and progressive policymakers have been fretting about the “future of work” and the “gigification” of…