Minimum Wage Worker Firing Reveals Why We Need More Poverty Reporting
On February 17th, Washington Post reporter Chico Harlan wrote a piece that analyzed the human impact of the 25-cent minimum wage increase in Arkansas. The article prominently featured the experiences...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Bank Tellers: Rebuilding the Middle Class Through Better Banks
My name is Thiago Marques, and I work at a bank in New Jersey. Most people would consider this a middle class job—after all I wear a tie to work every day—but that’s far from reality. I make around...
View ArticleWorkers and Georgetown Students Stand Up to Aramark
At Georgetown University this year, students became aware of stark differences in treatment between Aramark’s Georgetown and American University food services employees. At American, food service...
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25 Years Later: Lessons from the Organizers of Justice for Janitors
On June 15, 1990, the Los Angeles Police Department viciously attacked immigrant janitors who were striking for the right to organize in Century City, Los Angeles. In a story that is now all too...
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Millennials Support Unions—So Why Don’t They Join Them?
This is another article about Millennials, and how we value fulfillment over money in our jobs, and experiences over things. But it’s also about why—it’s about how, when the financial crisis hit, we...
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The Gig Economy Is Screwing Over Workers—And It Needs to Stop
For the past few years, we have been inundated with think pieces about the gig economy. They feature vignettes of Americans working flexible hours to pick up extra cash: the graduate student who drives...
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Workers Don’t Need Trump to Give Them A Voice. They Need Unions.
As this election made clear, a lot of Americans are angry. They feel left behind by the economy, and isolated and unheard in our democracy. Some of this frustration is understandable—wages have hardly...
View ArticleHow a Union Vote in Charleston Could Change the Labor Movement in the South
Mike Evans has worked as an organizer for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) for more than two decades. He says he’s never had an organizing experience like he’s...
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Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again
At the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., rays of sunlight break through an unseasonably cold March, through the ordered, brutalist buildings that line Pennsylvania Avenue. Hundreds of thousands...
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The Supreme Court Could Make Unions a Lot More Radical
Fed up with the harsh conditions under which they were forced to labor, workers from West Virginia decided to call it quits. Together, they left their jobs, donned red bandanas, and amassed 10,000...
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Inside the Effort to Organize Freelance Journalists
The New Yorker, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Vice — whether at new media outlets or legacy publications, newsrooms across the country are unionizing. Most recently, 75 percent of...
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Unionized Baseball Players Making Millions Just Crossed a Hotel Picket Line
On October 4, the New York Yankees were in Boston for the playoff series against the Boston Red Sox. A Boston Magazine reporter posted a video to Twitter of the Yankees walking into their hotel, the...
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We Voted for a Union at Columbia and We’re Willing to Fight For It
Graduate workers at Columbia are the people who teach courses and discussion sections, grade papers and exams, hold office hours and meet with students. We’re the teaching assistants and research...
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Working on a Campaign Is Grueling. A New Union Wants to Make It Better.
During the 2018 midterm cycle, which comes to a close today, the Campaign Workers Guild has unionized the political staffers of candidates across the country. It recently organized Break the Majority,...
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You Can’t Eat Your Dreams. Hollywood Expects Assistants to Do Just That.
As the film and television industry posts record profits and there are more TV shows on the air than ever, many Hollywood assistants are still making less than $15 an hour. Those assistants are saying...
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45,000 California Child Care Providers Just Won the Largest Union Election in...
On Monday, 45,000 family child care owners and employees in California voted to join a union in a landslide, the largest union election the country has seen in two decades, according to organizers. In...
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