Labor


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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…


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“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers

… and Isn’t Intelligent. By Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender The gold rush around so-called “generative artificial intelligence” (AI) tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion has been characterized by breathless predictions that these technologies…



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Teamsters Negotiate Contract at UPS

By Luis Feliz Leon Some 340,000 UPS Teamsters will see significant gains to pay and working conditions if they ratify a five-year tentative agreement announced by the negotiating committee on Tuesday. Rank-and-file workers were poised…



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You are in the same fight we are.

We’re All Mice Trying to Chew Through a Trillion Dollar Tree By Hamilton Nolan Human beings are not good at comprehending large numbers. When their scale exceeds anything we have ever experienced, it becomes difficult…


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…