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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

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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

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Why Influencers Like Jake Paul Are Taking Over Boxing

Jack Bedrosian Jacobin
Influencers like Jake Paul have risen to prominence by fighting athletes who want an alternative to exploitative bodies like the UFC. His pro-Trumpism and call for a union to protect the rights of fighters represent the contradictions within combat

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Can Call Center Workers of the World Unite?

Steve Early Labor Notes
Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

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Why My Coworkers and I Unionized Our Architecture Firm

Je Siqueira Jacobin
This summer, workers at Bernheimer Architecture in New York City became the first private sector architects in the US to ratify a union contract. An architect at the firm explains their road to a first collective bargaining agreement.

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Union Elections Surge in a Hopeful Sign for Labor

Dave Jamieson HUFFPOST
On Tuesday, federal officials reported a 29% jump in union election petitions during the most recent fiscal year, rising from 2,593 in 2023 to 3,286 in 2024.
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