Tag: labor

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Rank-and-File Revolt

Kim Kelly

July 01, 2020

While labor leaders drag their feet about police unions, members demand radical change.

State of the Art

Josh Gabert-Doyon

June 23, 2020

Canada’s lucrative animation industry is hollowing out an art form

A Clean Break

Clare Busch

May 26, 2020

Amid a pandemic, sanitation workers in New Orleans strike for safety.

Walls, Moats, and Borders

Rafia Zakaria

May 22, 2020

Trump's war on immigration is typically backward-looking.

Meditations in an Emergency

Madeleine Crum

May 19, 2020

Worker writers take stock of a world reshaped by coronavirus.

Cash Cows

Joshua Specht

May 04, 2020

Meatpacking and the specter of Coronapolitics.

Barely Necessities

Kim Kelly

April 29, 2020

Employers stretch the definition of “essential” to its breaking point

Disposable People

Musa al-Gharbi

April 01, 2020

Coronavirus and the lifestyles of the professional-managerial class.

Food Fight

Kim Kelly

March 31, 2020

Deemed ”essential,” grocery store workers are fighting to be treated as such.

Misclassified Information

Kim Kelly

March 09, 2020

Many “independent” contractors are anything but.

This Holiday Season, Thank a Janitor

Kim Kelly

December 30, 2019

We’ve made it through the Winter Solstice, and across the United States people are celebrating the end of another laborious trip ’round the sun. The end of December is traditionally a time for warmth, good cheer, and—for many of us—boozy office parties. The chance to let ...

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Kim Kelly

November 27, 2019

Transit workers are ideally positioned to push down on the levers of power