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A company-owned Starbucks in New York State is the first in the US to unionize.

A lot of people, look at Amazon and see the size, scope and the tentacles everywhere, say it’s so huge it can never be done. But we know those tentacles mean there’s a lot of surface area, that there are a lot of people who can come into this fight.

Harvard’s more than 5,000 unionized clerical and technical workers have faced different transitions back to working on campus.

November was a sluggish month for women re-entering the workforce as women gained only 36% of new jobs, reports the National Women’s Law Center. It could take 30 months to gain back the nearly 2 million jobs women have lost during the pandemic.

There are good reasons for working class people to distrust formal education systems and scientific research but we can't fall into anti-intellectualism. The University of the Poor's “struggle as a school” is a way to organize in response.

Rather than materially address the underlying issues of the nursing shortage crisis, health care providers are exploiting it in order to further consolidate power at the top of industry hierarchies — and break the power of organized labor below.

Alex Riccio argues Joe Burns’ latest book is powerfully inspiring but short on details.

Workers at three plants owned by the luxury apparel-maker Canada Goose in Winnipeg, Manitoba, have voted overwhelmingly to unionize.

Global real wage growth has stagnated compared to productivity in recent decades contributing to widening income inequality. Economic desperation is compounded by the fact that half of the world’s population lacks any form of social protection.

A truly multiracial, inclusive, radical democratic movement that has a vision beyond capitalism is key. You can help. Here's how.