Caitlyn Clark is an organizer at Essential Workers for Democracy and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Her work has been featured in Labor Notes, More Perfect Union, and more.
Tyson abruptly shut down its plant in Joslin, Illinois, last month, throwing 2,500 mostly immigrant workers out of work. Consolidation across the beef and grocery industries may be driving a wave of meatpacking job losses.
An overwhelmingly immigrant workforce in Colorado — speaking over 50 languages — says it won its strike at the largest meatpacking company in the world, striking a blow against an industry that has colluded to suppress wages and raise consumer prices.
At the sprawling JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, 3,800 workers from around the world have united to carry out the largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700, representing 8,000 Kroger retail workers in Indiana, voted earlier this month to reject a tentative agreement for a second time. The vote opens a path for the union to potentially strike the grocery giant.
Colorado Kroger workers are striking this week, and 130,000 union grocery workers are bargaining contracts this year. Reformers see it as a chance to transform the UFCW from America’s largest private sector union into a fighting force.
The TikTok ban saga perfectly captures both Republican cynicism and Democratic incompetence: Trump takes credit for “saving” an app his administration originally moved to ban, while Democrats fumble another opportunity to connect with young people.
In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them.
Netflix’s Love Is Blind has faced several allegations of serious abuse of cast members. We shouldn’t be too surprised if parlaying our yearning for love into profitable mass entertainment ultimately rests on brutal labor practices.
Over the last few weeks across the US, pro-Palestine student protesters have faced harsh crackdowns from university administrators and police. At many campuses, labor unions have been coming to the protesters’ defense.
Despite heavy repression, campus protests in solidarity with Palestine have been spreading like wildfire across the US. The support of organized labor can help the movement grow — and increase its leverage to achieve its demands.
Last week, Joe Biden signed a bill that will force Chinese-owned TikTok to be sold to a US company or be banned in the US. It’s an attack on free speech — aimed at, among other things, suppressing criticism of Israel’s genocide.
Amazon forces its warehouse employees to work at breakneck paces in unsafe conditions — and then tries to keep them from getting medical care when they’re injured. In response, Amazon workers across the US are organizing for health and safety improvements.
Hollywood writers and actors are on strike together for the first time in over 60 years, and they could be joined soon by a UAW strike at one of the “Big Three” automakers. It’s a good time to remember: the strike is one of workers’ greatest weapons.
As the climate crisis intensifies, workers are being forced to work amid noxious wildfire smoke and in dangerously high temperatures. But workers at UPS and elsewhere are organizing to demand health and safety precautions from their employers.
A viral tweet decrying the idea of work became a TikTok meme celebrating individualist influencer culture and the lives of the idle rich. But real freedom from the drudgery of labor requires collective action — and building a world beyond capitalism.
Gen Z: Young people like you are winning unions at Starbucks and Amazon. The time to join the labor movement and transform the world is now.
Like Parasite before it, Netflix’s survival thriller Squid Game dramatizes the horrors of modern inequality and exploitation in South Korea — and shreds the capitalist myth that hard work guarantees prosperity.