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September 22, 2022
“You Strike So You Don’t Quit”: Across the Country, Nurses Are Fighting Overwork
Massive nurses’ strikes in Minnesota, Michigan, and New York are putting the crisis of understaffing and unsafe work loads front and center.
Bryce Covert
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September 20, 2022
What Do Americans Care About? Not a Cold War With Russia and China.
Americans’ top security concerns include safety at home and protecting jobs.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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September 15, 2022
Rail Workers, Nurses, Teachers Are Fighting From the Bottom Up
When will their supposed national leaders—in unions, and in the Democratic Party—get serious?
Jane McAlevey
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September 15, 2022
Are Rail Workers on Track to Win Better Working Conditions?
A tentative deal to avert a national rail strike awaits a membership vote—and clarification of basic job protections.
Mel Buer
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September 15, 2022
Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized.
Thanks to grassroots organizing, which much of the media is ignoring, minor leaguers will now join the Major League Players Association.
Dave Zirin
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September 14, 2022
Biden vs. Newsom on Farmworkers’ Right To Vote
In a heated debate over farmworker voting rights, California’s governor refuses to sign a bill to make it easier for workers to win union recognition.
David Bacon
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September 8, 2022
Therapists in California and Hawaii Are Striking for Mental Health Care
The strike is the latest example of social justice unionism in the era of corporate health care.
Dana Simon
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September 8, 2022
Amy Littlefield on How Abortion Rights Triumphed in Kansas, Plus Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered
On this week’s episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, on-the-ground reporting from Kansas and an interview with the late Barbara Ehrenreich.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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September 6, 2022
Barbara Ehrenreich, a Writer for Change
The author and activist, who died last week, documented with prescience and empathy the lives of people who are overlooked by society.
Katha Pollitt
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September 5, 2022
The Alternative to Working Ourselves to Death
Investments in better jobs today mean better retirements tomorrow.
Beth C. Truesdale and Lisa F. Berkman