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BIPOC Media on the Fight for Fair Wages — & Anti-Racist Unions

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform. From auto plants to Amazon warehouses, to Hollywood studios, pharmacies and hospitals, almost half a million workers...

Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?

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Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.  Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received...

“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 1/9/23). “At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the...

Beating Poverty by Investing in Teachers: A Labor Story for May Day

McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that embodies the challenges facing many American...
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Worker Co-ops Coped With Covid. Why Can’t Others?

Workers in Chicago, at the nation’s most famous tortilla factory recently staged a one day walk-out, only to find themselves locked out when they tried to return to their workplace. They wanted to work, employees...

Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker-Owned Co-ops

When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners of Opportunity Threads in Morganton, North Carolina stepped up, retooling...
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The Complete Picture of Our Work Culture

What if we told the people we cared about just what we thought of them more often, and not just the bad stuff either, but also the good. Secondly, how about we did the...
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United Action to Keep Workers Down

Just six percent of private sector workers belong to a union in the US, but that doesn’t mean we’re short of united action on our economy.  For weeks now, employers and their lobbies have been...

Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote

“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federation. With Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama igniting the fight to unionize and the...

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