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Live Performance’s New Union Wave Goes Way Beyond Broadway

Douglas Corzine Jacobin
From planetarium lecturers to performers at strip clubs and escape rooms, Actors’ Equity is organizing live entertainment workers far beyond traditional musicals. The union’s strategy could be crucial as unions brace for a potential anti-labor admin

Federal Workers Brace for Change Amid DOGE Rhetoric

Rebecca Beitsch The Hill
“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) co-leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated a number of plans targeting federal workers, including plans to end telework.

A Portside Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator

Portside
Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again. Portside will be there every day, and we’re asking you to help. Here’s how.

Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Are Unionizing

An interview with Ben Lovett Edward Dupree Leeya Mehari Jacobin
Last month, workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, the first such filing since Amazon took over the grocery chain in 2017. We spoke with some of the workers about the union

The Big Union Contract Fights Coming in 2025

Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Keith Brower Brown Labor Notes
In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.