Strikes

The renowned organizer and theorist has a terminal-cancer diagnosis. But she has long been fighting the clock.

A strike captain reflects on the emotional highs and lows of five months on the picket lines.

The innovative and daring show was a worldwide hit for Netflix, but some of the actors say that they were never fairly compensated.

With France’s public trash collectors joining a general strike, the city has been divided in two: the Trashes and the Trash-Nots.

The N.H.S. is the country’s pride. But rolling strikes reveal a system in the midst of collapse.

In 2020, the Department of Justice sued the state for running prisons that were “riddled” with violence. Since then, things have got worse.

Boris Johnson’s probable successor is offering little comfort as a recession looms.

COVID-19 appears to have lit a match beneath at least a decade’s worth of late-stage-capitalist tinder.

Lorraine Gray’s 1979 documentary offers a fascinating view of a 1936-37 strike at G.M. plants in Flint, Michigan, and a harrowing account of the history of women and factory work.

The spectacle of the empty court on Wednesday night, a stage for action rendered radiantly fallow, was a rejection of normalcy.

The author and activist is both a coach of today’s union movement and a chronicler of its key plays.

Evictions and foreclosures in the U.S. could trigger a new wave of infection and illness—but it’s not too late to act.

As the coronavirus economic shutdown stretches on, some tenants are turning missed rent payments into a movement.

What had brought them here? Everyone’s answer was the same, the only one possible: a sense of existential threat.

“These Silicon Valley one-per-centers have only one goal,” one rideshare driver said, during Wednesday’s strike, “to slowly but surely turn us partners into an underclass.”

The educators have a greater goal than a mere salary increase: the future of their public-school district and of public schools nationwide.

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.