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The skeleton of an unfinished bus, and the outer shell of another are shown in a factory

In Bus Factories, A Triple-Decker Win

May 29 / Keith Brower Brown
A group of Teamsters in a parking lot stand around a table with petitions and leaflets on it. One is filling out a sign-up sheet.

List-Building 101, or How to Expand Your Reach as a Troublemaker

May 22 / Lisa Xu

The Billionaires Have Two Parties: An Organizer’s Review

May 12 / Steve Lawton
Two workers place a slab of manufactured stone against a larger slab.

Counter Manufacturers are Killing Workers with Silica Dust, Safety Group Charges

Apr 28 / Jenny Brown
Four strikers holding signs, one with a fist in the air, face the camera.

After Three-Week Strike, JBS Concedes to Meatpacking Workers

Apr 23 / Caitlyn Clark and Lisa Xu
Fifty people pose on the stairs inside the Rhode Island capitol.

How Rhode Island’s Labor Movement Made Its Weight Felt in Politics

Apr 22 / Paul Prescod

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A white hardhat with a sticker that reads "Respect Our Vote."

Oil Tanker Mates Fight for First Contract Against Familiar Employer Stalling Tactics

Jun 1 / Daniel Ginsberg-Jaeckle
A photo taken at night shows detainees silhouetted in the prison window, one with fist raised.

‘We Demand Freedom’: Immigrants on Strike in New Jersey Prison

May 29 / Luis Feliz Leon
Big crowd marches behind a giant black banner hand-painted in orange "Ready to Strike." Many people hold handmade signs on sticks. A person near the front with long pink hair and reflecting sunglasses looks defiantly into the camera. A person in a blue beanie punches a tattooed arm into the air, raising a fist. Farther back, glimpse someone in a red inflatable lobster suit.

Portland Community College Workers Defeat Budget Cuts in Wall-to-Wall Strike

May 29 / Michelle DuBarry
Several people chant with round Hotel Trades Council signs.

Green Shoots of Hope in the Labor Movement

May 28 / Alexandra Bradbury
Members of the Laborers Union march during the May Day rally in New York City, behind a black banner that says solidarity in multiple languages, including Arabic.

May Day Actions Call for 'Workers Over Billionaires'

May 22 / Rene Cabrera and Priscila Esparza
Book covers for six translations of Secrets of a Successful Organizer, in various colors, most featuring the bullseye logo. The Spanish tenants one instead shows two hands joined by the pinkies. A graphic from inside that book shows the "bullseye" diagram adapted to an onion, with the core group in the center, activists and supporters in layers of the onion, distant people outside the onion, and hostiles represented as a knife cutting the onion.

Secrets of a Successful Organizer Now Available in Nine Languages

May 13 / Dan DiMaggio

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