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…
Labor
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;…
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…
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….
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…
“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…
Biden Infrastructure Report Pushes ‘Disastrous Water Privatization Schemes’
By Julia Conley An under-the-radar report by U.S. President Joe Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council should not go unnoticed, said the national watchdog Food & Water Watch on Thursday, as buried in the document is…
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…
Teachers Striking for the ‘Common Good’
By Courtney E. Martin Teachers went on strike on May 4, 2023, just three weeks before the last day of the academic calendar. The strike lasted seven school days. In negotiations, teachers not only fought…