Solving the Staffing Crisis in NC Schools
A teacher’s point of view By Carl Hintz I started teaching in Wake County in December of 2021. I currently teach physical science and chemistry. As a new teacher, I can speak to some of…
Economy
Next Steps in the Fight for Debt Relief
By Rebekah Barber The student loan pause offered a safety raft to millions of Americans who are drowning in debt. The Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision to block student debt relief will devastate these borrowers,…
The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive
By Stacy Mitchell Food Fresh is the only grocery store in a rural stretch of southeastern Georgia. It has many five-star Google reviews praising its freshly butchered meats, tomato bar and friendly service. Yet it faces…
No Action on Climate? Blame Big Oil
By Linda McQuaig With outright climate denialism largely behind us, we keep moving on through more sophisticated stages of climate inaction. Currently, even as large swaths of North America became engulfed in wildfire smoke, we…
The Modern Form of Colonialism: Climate Change
Commentary by Tapti Sen I am from a disappearing nation. My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by climate change in the…
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…
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 &…