More Austerity Coming? Lessons from New York’s 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Photo caption: Andrea Vásquez, Professional Staff Congress (PSC) first Vice President, before heading to the May 18, 2020, caravan calling
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Moneybags for Billionaires, Body Bags for Workers: Organizing in the Time of Pandemics
Photo caption: In Bel Air on July 1, 2020, Marie Germaine, a local elementary school teacher speaks at a press
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In a Covid-19 World, Can Hotel Workers Keep Their Gains?
Photo caption: Anand Singh (center) in the middle of Minneapolis’ Fourth Street, during coordinated national demonstrations against Marriott in 2018.
Read moreOn-Again/Off-Again: The Relationship between Socialism and U.S. Labor
Democratic socialists want to achieve, as the late British Labour Party leader Tony Benn often put it, a fundamental and
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Game Workers Unite!
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger inter- viewed Declan Peach, a game worker
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The Labor Movement Comes to Virtual Reality: Unionizing Digital Media
Kim Kelly’s first “real” job—outside of dishwashing, retail sales, and touring with metal bands as a merchandise person—was at Vice
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Stop & Shop Workers and the Come Back of the Strike
According to a recent report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of U.S. workers involved in work stoppages
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Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Tech Workers Organize
NLF Highlights for March 4th Until recently, it has been assumed that among the most highly skilled and best paid
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#CountMeIn: The NYC Building Trades Campaign Puts It All on the Line
An unusual but increasingly common sight on the streets of New York City, hundreds, some- times thousands of union construction
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Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Platform Workers Take on Tech Giants in the Workplace and the World
In recent years, Silicon Valley’s platform workers have introduced a phenomenon previously alien to their industry: collective action. This process
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