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Economic Disobedience: What Is It and How Does It Work?
From student debt strikes to withholding rent.
By Jacqui Germain
Why the Book Industry Sucks for Workers
Bookstore and publishing workers are uniting in their demands for better.
By Kim Kelly
What Young Starbucks Union Organizers Want You to Know
Eight workers from around the country weigh in.
By Jacqui Germain
This is the U.S.'s First Fully Unionized Undergrad College
At Iowa's Grinnell College.
By Lex McMenamin
A Young Chicana Garment Worker Led ‘the Strike of the Century’
Rosa Flores became a literal poster girl for the movement.
By Kim Kelly
These Coders Are Flooding 'Union-Busting' Companies With Fake Job Applications
Gen-Z for Change is targeting Starbucks and Krogers.
By Fortesa Latifi
These States Raised Their Minimum Wage in 2022
But the cost of living keeps going up, too.
By Jacqui Germain
The Amazon Union Is Part of a Legacy of Black Labor Organizing
Chris Smalls was fired by Amazon. Then he helped form its first union.
By Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Katie Camacho Orona
Amazon Workers Just Voted to Create Their First Union in the U.S.
We love to see it!
By Jacqui Germain
What Does the Word ‘Radical’ Mean Anyway?
“It’s demanding the impossible and believing we just might get there.”
By Kim Kelly
Why Employers Should Have to List Pay on Job Postings
Transparency would make a huge difference for women.
By Chabeli Carrazana
Helen Keller’s Legacy Has Been Sanitized
Keller was an activist who was under FBI surveillance for most of her life.
By Haley Moss
Want to Unionize Your Workplace? This Group Can Help
Meet the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
By Dawn Tefft
The Young Lords Brought the Revolution to Public Health
The group achieved victories for health care access in New York and beyond.
By Marissa Lemar
6 Common Signs of Union Busting
Here’s how employers try to stop workers from organizing.
By Jacqui Germain
Don’t You Dare Make Your Amazon Driver Dance for You
It's not “heartwarming,” it's cringey.
By Lex McMenamin
MLK Knew That Tension Is Necessary to Create Change
We can’t just wait patiently for institutions or lawmakers to act.
By Zubin Abraham-Ahmed
Slavery Is Still Legal In the United States
Thanks to a critical exception to the 13th Amendment.
By Bianca Tylek