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To understand the insurgency, we need to look at economics, and at political economy specifically. But we especially need a labor-movement analysis.

For his work as a production manager at Falling Sky overseeing a team of brewers and working up to 65 hours a week, Timms made what came out to a little over $40,000 a year. Frustrated, he quit his brewing job in early 2018, convinced that craft brewers were getting shorted across the industry.

Although tasers are frequently identified by police as a necessary alternative to avoid deadly force, a 2017 Reuters investigation found that, since the early 2000s, more than 1,000 people have died after the police stunned them.

Garment and textile workers are organizing to improve their pay. They are amongst the least paid in the country, often earning less than $1.00 per day.

Internal documents obtained by the Guardian reveal a nationwide drive to persuade union members to quit and stop paying dues.

The walkout against the district was the first teachers strike in Colorado in nearly a quarter of a century. Garnering the attention of both the state and nation, the action is the first public-sector workers strike in Pueblo since 1977.

Internal documents obtained by the Guardian reveal a nationwide drive to persuade union members to quit and stop paying dues.

The Professional Staff Congress/AFT is stepping up its campaign to demand $7,000 per course for Adjuncts at CUNY.

Capitalism treats blue-collar and white-collar wage earners differently than salary earners. Since the 1980s, anybody who has a non-bullshit job, who is doing actual work, has seen their work downsized, sped up and Taylorized.

I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public sector unions by letting workers receive the benefits of representation without contributing toward the cost. But I’ve got a unique vantage point: I work in the same building as the plaintiff.