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The new Oprah Winfrey–produced Sidney Poitier documentary, Sidney, is a gushing tribute film, not a fully rounded portrait of a human being who had weaknesses to go along with his many strengths.

The pay and treatment at GEICO can be uneven. Department heads are given a pot of money to distribute raises to the workers they supervise, and women and people of color tend to get left behind.

First and foremost, we must remember that our real power lies in our workplaces and in the streets.

“The debts we make are never paid, for us behind the wall,” write the incarcerated poet Cory Lambing, offering a glimpse of what it’s like to be inside.

There is growing interest in and a successful push for unionization in both chain and independent restaurants. Workers are being exposed not just to unions but to organizing. 

The left has failed to deepen democracy, even among the working class. It’s a wake-up call for everyone. How do we deepen democratic thinking and culture among the working class in a situation where the public education system has failed? 

This new book, says reviewer Haile, surveys "the existence of non-binary gender ideas, roles and behavior across cultures and from different time periods."

In a major milestone for an organizing effort that began in 2018, full-time and part-time, non-tenure-track faculty and other Skidmore College staff voted this month in favor of unionizing.

The film premieres amid a growing social media trend that romanticizes tradwives. But in Don’t Worry Darling, being a 1950s housewife is anything but romantic.

Millions of office employees started working at home in 2020, now many don't want to return to the workplace. Companies are struggling to figure out how to convince them to return.