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Catholic radical Louis J. Twomey’s labor institute at Loyola University New Orleans trained a generation of workers for class struggle. A new union drive among the university’s food service workers draws on that legacy of the best of Catholic trade unionism.

Georgia Yes! Raphael Warnock put Georgia on our minds, and Georgia delivered. Portside works to put the most important issues on our minds every day. Once a year, we ask for your help to do so. This is that time.

Even without a union, you have the legal right to organize strikes, job actions, and various protests—and your employer is banned from retaliating against you.

Oregon poet Amy Miller responds to the “inappropriate behavior” of celebrities, lamenting “the hypervigilance that women live with daily.”

Taking a defiant stand, hundreds of New York Times journalists refused to work Thursday — the largest journalist-led labor action at the nation's leading newspaper in more than 40 years.

An alarming number of commentators are grafting their ideological purity on the situation. But the final settlement was nit Biden’s fault, nor the fault of the two political parties. It’s Rail Labor leadership’s fault.

History’s first fascist regime violently seized power in Italy in 1922. It continues to inspire the far right a century later.

The attorney general of Louisiana has launched an online form encouraging residents of the state to report librarians who they suspect of stocking sexually explicit books—or anything else they might object to being seen by their kids.

Director Elegance Bratton tells Jezebel how he, like his film's protagonist, survived homophobia, homelessness, and the military.

If the unionization vote passes, it’ll be a landmark win for more than one reason: It would create the largest video game industry union in the United States, and the first official U.S. union under Microsoft.