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Disasters, missed opportunities, and a few bright spots in 2020.

The city’s first worker-owned ridesharing app gets ready to take on the big boys.

A new­ly elect­ed pro­gres­sive DA in Austin, Texas is bring­ing some­thing to his posi­tion that none of his coun­ter­parts have before: deep ties to the labor movement. Jose Garza, the new District Attorney in Austin, is the face of progressive pow

We asked the real experts about the gap between public enthusiasm for unions and the lack of actual union members.

The economically devastated union is knocking on more doors than the entire Democratic Party

In Cal­i­for­nia, one group of union activists is form­ing a ​“Labor Slate” of can­di­dates, in what they hope will become a mod­el for future elec­tion cycles.

The plat­form empha­sizes union jobs, afford­able hous­ing, Medicare for All, pub­lic edu­ca­tion and trans­porta­tion, as well as increas­ing tax­es on the rich.

The former writers of Deadspin have announced the launch of Defector Media, which will be an honest-to-goodness media co-op owned by the writers and editors themselves.

As American families fret over a patchwork set of standards for reopening schools that vary widely by city and state, teachers unions across the country are denouncing the Trump administration’s approach.

Let’s put police unions on a raft and set them adrift. They can reapply for solidarity if they stop abusing the rest of us.