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The Women Leading Today’s Historic Labor Movement

Aura Heinrichs Harper's Bazaar
With issues like pay, benefits, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum staffing levels, schedule flexibility, mental health, and workplace safety becoming increasingly urgent in the pandemic, women have emerged as union leaders as never before.

It’s a Wonderful Life vs. the FBI

Rhys Handley Jacobin
Amid Cold War paranoia, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI set its sights on a potential source of communist subversion: Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life.

Politics and Prose Becomes First Unionized Bookstore in DC

Politics and Prose and UFCW Local 400 UFCW LocaL 400
Politics and Prose bookstore employees In Washington, DC have joined the growing movement of booksellers and baristas across the country who have unionized their workplaces. They have joined United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400.