As West Coast Port Talk Heat Up, Many Communities Fear Declining with Automation
By Rachel Phua For Jaime Hipsher, the sounds and sights of men and women busy driving trucks and hauling metal containers along the San Pedro…
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Brazilian Trade Unionists Travel to US to Build Solidarity Ahead of Election
PHILADELPHIA, PA – “We are here to protect Brazilian democracy,” Brazilian fashion workers union President Francisca Trajano dos Santos tells Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) as…
Immigration Activists Blame Biden for 51 Migrants Dying in Tractor-Trailer
Yesterday, the bodies of 51 immigrants were found dead in the back of an abandoned tractor-trailer in San Antonio, in the deadliest border crossing incident…
Brazilian Workers Strike over Murder of Guardian Journalist & Indigenous Activist
Brazilian workers at FUNAI, the government body responsible for the protection and interests of indigenous Brazilian people, have gone on strike. The workers have gone…
Labor Notes Headliner Covered Up Sexual Assault & Retaliated Against Chicago Union Democracy Activists
Labor Notes began in the late 1970s as both a training organization and publication dedicated to union democracy struggles within the United Auto Workers. The…
Send Melk Back to Brasil As an Election Observer This Fall
There is nothing more that I want than to go back to Brasil and cover the upcoming Presidential election this October between fascist president Jair…
#TBT from 2012: A Grief-Stricken Randi Weingarten Engages Hesitant Unions on Gun Control in Wake of Sandy Hook
In December of 2012, following the Sandy Hook Massacre, I interviewed the American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for In These Times. While some…
For My 36th Birthday, Send Me Back to Brasil as an Election Observer
Today is my birthday and there is nothing more that I want than to go back to Brasil and cover the upcoming Presidential election this…
Summer Lee Elected to Congress in Historic Victory over Dark Money
PITTSBURGH, PA. – Today, State Representative Summer Lee scored a historic victory by being elected as the first Black woman to Congress from the Commonwealth…
Woodland Hills Alumni Push Summer Lee Across the Finish Line
PITTSBURGH, PA – Woodland Hills Class of 2005 alumni Ashley Comans is 9 months pregnant and expected to deliver her second child on election day,…
Summer Lee’s Organizing Model Has Upended Pittsburgh
Story initially published at the American Prospect PITTSBURGH – Pennsylvania state Rep. Summer Lee was cruising to victory in a high-profile Pittsburgh-area congressional primary to…
Donate to Help Us Cover #PA12 Congressional Primary & Take on Dark Money Flooding Into Pittsburgh
Help Support Our 2-Person Staff & Meet Our Monthly Goal Folks, A lot of national attention is being paid to the May 17th Congressional primary…