A Wildcat Strike at UC-Santa Cruz
Graduate student workers at University of California, Santa Cruz are on wildcat strike until they're paid a living wage.
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Andrew Cuomo’s $4 Billion Problem
For 25 years, Andrew Cuomo's Democratic Party has been blocking billions of dollars owed to New York schools. It's time to cough it up.
Kamala Harris’s Signature Achievement Was a Complete Failure
Kamala Harris trumpets a criminal justice program she instituted as district attorney as proof she's a "progressive prosecutor." The only problem? The program utterly failed to reduce mass incarceration in California.
Black Faces in High Places
In Baltimore and elsewhere, the ascension of blacks to political office has only masked persisting racial inequality.
Sister Corita’s Immaculate Art
In the 1960s, a nun in California decided to make contemporary art — and managed to serve both the Vatican and the anti–Vietnam War movement in the process.
From Meager Pay to Malnutrition, School Cafeterias Are in Crisis
School meal programs across the US are in disarray due to major staffing shortages and exploitative business practices, and kids are shouldering the burden. We can’t fix the nationwide cafeteria crisis without making life sustainable for the “lunch ladies."
Lessons From San Francisco’s Fight Against Tech Displacement
A new book recounts how San Francisco tenant organizers took on tech-fueled displacement in the 2010s. Their campaigns were brave, media-savvy, and sometimes successful — but the conditions that made them possible have changed, and so must the strategy.
After LA’s Fires, Don’t Weep for the Insurance Companies
It is absurd to suggest that insurance companies have been blindsided by increasing climate risks. On the contrary, they’ve been fully aware, highly prepared, and hard at work protecting profits at the expense of policyholders.
Amazon Is the Largest Employer in California’s Inland Empire. Workers There Want a Union.
Ten years ago, Amazon operated zero facilities in California. It now operates close to 40 facilities in the Inland Empire alone, making it the region’s largest employer. Workers essentially live in a company town — which may be why many want to unionize.
Trump’s Military Occupation of Chicago Won’t Bring Safety
Residents of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods need investment in their well-being, not humvees patrolling them like a military occupation, writes Chicago city council member Rossana Rodriguez.
The Writers’ Strike Reminds Us Hollywood Is a Site of Class Struggle
The writers of your favorite movies and shows are workers just like you. They deserve your solidarity.
The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators Changed American Teachers Unionism
Today is the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, the Chicago Teachers Union caucus that transformed the union into the powerful force it is today. CTU vice president Jackson Potter reflects on the caucus’s legacy.
How Hollywood’s Anti-Communist Crackdown Made TV and Movies Bland and Boring
The conformity of 1950s film and television was the result of the successful McCarthyist purge of leftists — and their genres — from the entertainment industry. The life of socialist screenwriter Very Caspary shows how it was done and what was lost.
The Tough Task of Forging a Labor-Climate Alliance
Winning a just transition will require environmental activists to forge ties with labor unions around shared interests. That’s no easy task — but across the US, we’re seeing promising beginnings of a labor-climate alliance.
How San Francisco Longshoremen Made Their Union a Powerhouse
When they started strategically resisting the bosses’ divisive tactics, meeting racism with solidarity, San Francisco longshoremen went “from wharf rats to the lords of the docks.”
East Coast Longshore Workers May Soon Strike
Union negotiations covering East and Gulf Coast longshore workers have been stalled since June, making a strike more likely as the September 30 contract expiration looms. A strike would have a massive economic impact, costing billions of dollars per day.
Nonunion Hollywood Workers Should Stand With Striking Actors and Writers
The only way working conditions in the entertainment industry will improve is through good old-fashioned solidarity with striking workers — including by nonunion Hollywood workers like me standing with unionized actors and writers on the picket line.
Bling-Bling TV
As standards of living fall at the bottom and rise at the top, the only thing to do is watch TV about the trivial problems of the phenomenally rich.
Organized Labor Has to Challenge the Criminalization of Immigration
In recent decades, most of the labor movement has taken strong stances in favor of immigrant rights. But unions could do more to stop the ongoing criminalization of immigration that Democrats are doing little to halt.
AIPAC’s War Chest Is Growing as the War on Gaza Rages
Since the war on Gaza began, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has reaped $90 million in fundraising. The organization is using that massive haul to lobby against a cease-fire.