Jun 8, 2026
At a live event hosted at Red Emma’s Cooperative Bookstore and
Coffeehouse in Baltimore, Maryland, TRNN Editor-in-Chief
Maximillian Alvarez got to sit down for a deep and wide-ranging
conversation with Chris Smalls, co-founder and former president of
the Amazon Labor Union. Alvarez and Smalls discuss Smalls’...
May 27, 2026
Nearly a year after workers voted to authorize a strike,
non-union city and commercially contracted security officers in
Baltimore, MD, walked off the job on April 9 on an Unfair Labor
Practice strike against their employers, Abacus Corporation,
Metropolitan Protective Services, and Urban Development Solutions.
Now,...
May 20, 2026
Since the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump and his
acolytes, rightwing media, and coal industry barons and lobbyists
have obsessively painted the picture of Trump as a friend to coal
miners and the so-called “undisputed champion of beautiful clean
coal.” But as labor journalist Kim Kelly reports at
In...
May 12, 2026
After 14 months of fruitless contract negotiations with the
Harvard University administration, over 4,000 workers represented
by the Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU-UAW Local 5118) walked
off the job on an indefinite strike on April 21. According to the
union, “Graduate student workers will suspend teaching and...
May 7, 2026
After members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh won their
strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in late 2025, which
had lasted for over 3 years, they were notified in January that the
paper’s wealthy owners, the Block family and Block Communications
Inc., were shutting down operations. Then, in a stunning
turn...