110 Degrees in the Truck: Sanitation Workers Deserve Better
Terrill Haigler Photo credit: Hibbard Nash Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed
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Sectoral Bargaining Reforms: Proceed with Caution
After decades of decline, strike activity grew dramatically in 2018 and 2019.[1] Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed
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Always Essential: Grocery Store Work in a Pandemic
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Norma Leiva, a warehouse manager at
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The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age
The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black
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Is Care Work Already the Future?
“PROTESTORS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS.” Among the multitude of makeshift signs I saw on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) marches of
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Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed three women who are members of
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Justice on the Job for Nail Salon Workers– Narbada Chhetri and Pabitra Dash interview with Kressent Pottenger
Organizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.
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The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age
The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black
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