How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights
This union movement used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to successfully organize Dalit workers.
Mar 5, 2019 / Sujatha Fernandes
Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike
Democrats and progressives need to focus on what the United Electrical union calls the “first major US manufacturing strike of the Trump era.”
Feb 26, 2019 / John Nichols
Take Action Now: Join the Green New Deal Campaign Take Action Now: Join the Green New Deal Campaign
Organize for climate solutions, support teachers on strike, and get involved with a new election in North Carolina.
Feb 26, 2019 / NationAction
The Educators’ Revolt Is Spreading to Oakland The Educators’ Revolt Is Spreading to Oakland
Starting February 21, Oakland teachers will be on strike to reverse the dismantling of their school system.
Feb 21, 2019 / Eric Blanc
‘This Is Much Bigger Than Us, Than Our Union, Even Than Our City’ ‘This Is Much Bigger Than Us, Than Our Union, Even Than Our City’
How LA’s teachers joined forces with the community and won a landmark labor contract.
Jan 23, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe
The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike
In 2014, a progressive Union Power caucus took over UTLA—and that has made all the difference.
Jan 19, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe
Stories the Fashion Media Won’t Tell Stories the Fashion Media Won’t Tell
Why are fashion outlets ignoring Bangladeshi garment-worker protests?
Jan 18, 2019 / Minh-Ha T. Pham
‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’ ‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’
Yes, raises are important, but LA’s teachers are striking so their students have a fair shot at an education.
Jan 15, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe
What the LA Teachers Strike Is All About What the LA Teachers Strike Is All About
California is home to the industrial giants of Silicon Valley, the film industry, and the largest agricultural sector in the nation, but it has starved its public schools of resour...
Jan 14, 2019 / Pedro Noguera
LA’s Teachers’ Strike Will Be the Toughest Yet LA’s Teachers’ Strike Will Be the Toughest Yet
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike begins today. It’s going to be the most difficult struggle so far in the educators’ revolt sweeping the country.
Jan 14, 2019 / Eric Blanc
