The Food on Your Table
Brought to You by Prison Labor Jamiles Lartey If you’ve shopped at Walmart, Target, Costco, Whole Foods or many other large grocery chains recently, there’s a chance you purchased food produced by prison labor, according…
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10 Victories for the Working Class
Champions in the fight against inequality landed huge wins in 2023 By Sarah Anderson Looking for something positive to celebrate in the New Year? Consider lifting a glass to the hardworking people behind these inspiring…
Triangle Tenant Union Builds Groundwork for Mass Organizing
By Carl Hintz The Triangle Tenant Union held its January General Meeting on Saturday January 13th at Jubilee Baptist Church. Ten tenant-organizers were in attendance, many of whom have experienced first-hand 20-30 percent rent hikes,…
First Avenue Workers’ Victory
Another Win for Union and Worker Center Collaborations By Isabela Escalona In the late summer of 2021, a group of workers from First Avenue, the iconic Minneapolis music venue, were fed up with low pay,…
Migrant Worker’s Death Prompts Calls for
Extreme Heat Labor Laws By Anne Blythe As the sun dipped toward the horizon, pulling the last streaks of daylight from the sky over North Carolina’s capital city, dozens of migrant workers raised flickering tealights….
City Workers and UE150 Union Win $6.5 Million
By Dante Strobino On September 6, 2023, over seventy sanitation workers in Solid Waste Management in the City of Durham did not load their trucks in protest of low pay. On the first day of…
Auto Workers Power Up Fight for Electric Future
By Keith Brower Brown EDITOR’S NOTE: On November 20, UAW ratified new contracts at Ford, Stellantis and General Motors. The six-week UAW simultaneous “Stand Up Strike” won substantial gains such as cost of living adjustment,…
Unions Without Borders
US auto workers and activists in Michigan show up for fired VU Manufacturing workers in Mexico By Ashley Bishop On Sept. 26, protesters affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW), Labor Notes, Unite All Workers…
It’s Not That Hard to Solve Homelessness
By Sonali Kolhatkar California is home to Hollywood and Disneyland, sun and sand, and… nearly one-third of all unhoused people in the entire nation. Compare this to the fact that 12 percent of the nation…
How Oakland Tenants Forced Their Landlord to Turn Over the Keys
By Mathilde Lind Gustavussen When Maria Montes de Oca and her family moved into their apartment in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland fourteen years ago, there were already problems. The apartment clearly hadn’t been maintained;…