By Rodrigo Dutra & Mike Elk RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL – On Wednesday, in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of educators, members of the National Education Workers Alliance (CNTE), went on strike as part of a nationwide strike that mobilized over 150,000 educators and school employees from various unions throughout the

In May of 2020, nearly a third of workers at a Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa contracted COVID-19. Like many workers at the time, they sought out their local union for support, UFCW Local 431. However, they “…kept waiting and waiting, and nothing,” Joe Gorton, former union president at

By Christine Bolaños & Mike Elk AUSTIN — Her hair pulled back into a ponytail, donning a burgundy blouse with flower petals and a wide smile that illuminates her olive-skinned, naturally-glowing face, Maria Duque Ortega enthusiastically asks a waitress about the Salvadoran drinks on the lunch menu. Sometimes the names of

In progressive circles in the upper mid-west today, if you’ve heard the name Sadlowski, it’s probably because you were involved in the Wisconsin labor uprising of 2011, where you might have linked arms with AFSCME organizer and state capitol occupier Edward A. Sadlowski. Or maybe you applauded the