Dec 18, 2025
On Monday, Nov. 24, after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh before returning to work at the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Even though strikers have
returned to work, however, many issues at the center of the strike
are still...
Nov 20, 2025
Making ends meet in today’s economy is difficult enough, but with so many societal crises affecting working people’s lives on and off the shop floor—from mass layoffs to untenable costs of living, from an authoritarian federal government to AI and the climate crisis—it can feel all but impossible. What does...
Nov 13, 2025
Four years after the first Starbucks store in the US unionized
in 2021, workers across the country are still facing rampant union
busting and still fighting for a first contract with the coffee
giant. That is why a supermajority of unionized baristas with
Starbucks Workers United recently voted to authorize an...
Nov 6, 2025
Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last
10 months. While institutions of higher education continue to reel
from the Trump administration’s top-down attacks and scramble to
adjust, workers on campus say that their universities are
simultaneously expanding their own internal repression...
Nov 1, 2025
In September, before the current ceasefire deal was announced, we spoke with two Palestinians in Gaza—Mohamed Abu Tawila (a former English teacher) and his nephew Abdul Rahman (a would-be college student)—about surviving 700 days of genocidal destruction at the hands of Israel’s military and with the full backing...