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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
Members of the independent union SINTTIA rallied at a May 1 demonstration. Photo: SINTTIA

No podemos cerrar la brecha salarial entre Estados Unidos y México sin apoyar la organización sindical en México

Apr 15 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann
A crowd marches with signs

Virginia Workers to Governor: Don't Water Down Our Bargaining Rights!

Apr 14 / Lee Abbott
Seven women stand by a car holding a Farmworkers Union flag

A Lack of Democracy in the United Farm Workers Gave Chavez Immunity

Apr 6 / Jane Slaughter
Smiling strikers pose outdoors with a bright yellow banner handpainted "On strike for our schools" in red. Most people visible in this photo appear to be white or Asian women. Many wear UESF hats. Other visible handmade signs say "Boo Su, give us a fair contract now!" "Keep our counselors" and "Invest in oiur largest asset: children." Palm trees are visible against gray sky. Some people raise fists or a victory/peace sign.

Overwhelmed by Strike, San Francisco Schools Found the Money for Top Union Demands

Mar 31 / Danielle Smith

In 57 Languages, Meatpackers Strike for the First Time in 40 Years

Mar 22 / Caitlyn Clark and Lisa Xu

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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

Management Charged Them $100 a Week to Work, Workers Say. They’re Fighting Back.

May 8 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann
A bearded man speaks at a microphone with his hands wide open

Rutgers Labor Center to Celebrate Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi

Apr 29 / Steve Early and Rand Wilson

It’s Our Money: Union Members Fight for Good Public Pension Investments

Apr 29 / Dan Nicolai
workers march with “no contract, no coffee” signs, one with a megaphone

Starbucks Is Bargaining Backwards, Baristas Say

Apr 16 / Jenny Brown
A vintage black-and-white photo shows a line of workers standing outside, one calling into a megaphone, facing down cops with folded arms. They are photographed from a low, dramatic angle.

Letter: United Farmworkers' Complex and Contradictory History

Apr 15 / David Bacon

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