AI Needs Global Sweatshops
By Patricia Gestoso The hype around idyllic tech workplaces that originated in Silicon Valley with tales of great pay, free food and Ping-Pong tables reaches a whole new level when we talk about artificial intelligence…
Labor
Labor Unions for Incarcerated Workers
An Organizing Strategy Commentary by Andrew Bilodeau Over 1,000 incarcerated workers fought the fires that devastated Los Angeles last winter. Each day, they earned less than a quarter of what the average non-incarcerated firefighter makes…
Educators Warn Against Child Labor Rollbacks
By Brenda Álvarez When students at Brunswick High School’s alternative education program begin missing class, Rie Larson knows it’s time to ask questions. “Sometimes when we start to notice a student’s drop in attendance, and…
Student Workers and University Politics
By R Allen Wight In March of this year at UNC Chapel Hill, the winning candidate for president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) was disqualified for a minor infraction against election rules….
Black Farmers Are Reclaiming Their Land
By Andrew Sartain We’ve all heard the rumors of foreign interests buying up millions of acres of American farmland. In fact, over 45 million acres of U.S. farmland—nearly the size of half of California—are now…
Coalition ‘Durham Rising’ Makes Broad Demands of Duke University
By Durham Dispatch On May 7, around 150 people gathered at Lyon Park Community Center to launch Durham Rising, an alliance of labor unions and progressive organizations pushing for an improved relationship between Duke University,…
The Trump Tariffs and the U.S. Labor Movement
Commentary by Michael D. Yates A cornerstone of Donald Trump’s economic policies is tariffs. Claiming that just about every country in the world has ripped off the United States—even stating that the European Union was…
Why the Right Attacks the USPS: Its Unions
By Sonali Kolhatkar President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States Postmaster General. David Steiner’s appointment as head of the public…
Trump’s Deportations Could Increase Migrant Labor
By Teresa Cotsirilos and Ted Genoways The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the…
El Futuro Es Nuestro Launches Land and Housing Project
By R. Allen Wight El Futuro Es Nuestro, or “It’s Our Future (IOF),” organizes H2-A and immigrant farmworkers in North Carolina and advocates on their behalf. The organization initially materialized out of grassroots demands for…