Labor

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,…




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…


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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…



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One Building at a Time Won’t Do

Tenant Organizing in a Red State by Alex Prolman, Emerson Goldstein, and Kristen Hefner At the peak of the pandemic housing crisis in Summer 2020, community organizers across the country started building tenant unions to…


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Rent Stabilization Victory in Maryland

Landmark bill shows how communities can fight the housing crisis By Mel Buer On July 18, the Montgomery County Council passed a landmark rent stabilization bill, intending to curb predatory landlord practices in the county….


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Tenants Push for Federal Rent Control

Leading economists agree: “People are suffering.” By Jake Johnson More than 30 U.S. economists have signed a letter expressing support for strong federal tenant protections and rent control as housing costs remain sky-high, even amid…