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How to Throw Bombs, Save Lives, and Raise a Family in Paradise on $22 an Hour

by Carolyn Wells November 25, 2022November 26, 2022

“The dust has settled on negotiations, but the conversations about what ski-industry workers deserve may just be getting started.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

How Bagel Makers’ Union Local 338 Beat NYC’s “Kosher Nostra”

by Krista Stevens January 9, 2020October 19, 2022

‘“A bagel,” the newspaper of record explained in 1960, “is an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”’

Posted inCollege, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How College Professors Are Fighting for Their Lives

by Aaron Gilbreath June 24, 2019October 19, 2022

Adjuncts have unionized to try to negotiate a livable wage, but can their efforts defeat the college industrial complex?

Posted inBooks, Current Events, Story

The State of the Bookstore Union

by Rebecca McCarthy October 25, 2018October 19, 2022

The Strand, New York City’s largest independent bookstore, is owned by a millionaire — and the booksellers who work there are all broke.

Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Story

Nurses, Unite!

by Livia Gershon June 27, 2018October 19, 2022

What nurses’ unions can teach the Democratic Party.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care

by heymarkarms April 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.

Posted inBusiness, investigations, Science & Nature, Story

The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care

by Ian Frisch April 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.

Posted inBusiness, investigations, Science & Nature

The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care

by Ian Frisch April 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.

Posted inBlog Post, Story

An Elegy for DNAinfo, Local Media’s First Responders

by Danielle Tcholakian November 13, 2017October 19, 2022

We were the watchdogs, showing up when no one else did.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Refugees Abused in the Name of Chicken and Profit

by michelleweber May 4, 2017October 19, 2022

ProPublica blows the whistle on Case Farms, which targets refugees for their labor force.

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