How the Rail Industry Has Put Profits Over People for Decades
Co-published with Prism. Four months after the Norfolk Southern East Palestine train derailment, workers and citizens fight against the toxicity of an industry that has cut corners at every turn.
Workers Blame Low Pay and Understaffing for New York’s Benefits Backlog
Co-published with New York Focus. Some counties pay social services workers so little, the people who administer benefits end up applying themselves.
Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin
Co-published with Dissent Magazine. The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?
Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong
Co-published with Dissent Magazine. On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.
Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey
Co-published with Dissent Magazine. The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.
Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson
Co-published with Dissent Magazine. Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.
Medical Residents Nationwide Are Unionizing. What Does That Mean for the Future of Healthcare?
Co-published with Grid. Young physicians in training are being squeezed by labor shortages, inflation and long hours.
Ten Years Into the Fight for $15, Workers Are Still Fighting for A Living Wage
Co-published with The Intercept. In Part 2 of “Insecurity,” we meet Eshawney Gaston, a fast-food worker who joins the wave of labor uprisings sweeping the country during the pandemic.
Working in Their Sleep
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. Meatpacking workers in Arkansas, grieving loved ones lost to Covid and struggling to pay medical bills, are organizing for justice from their employer.
The Culture Workers Go On Strike
Co-published with The New Republic. From the New School to museums and book publishers, we’re witnessing the black-turtleneck-worker uprising.
Ambition Diaries: Does Ambition Even Matter Anymore?
Co-published with Fast Company. On this fourth and final episode of Ambition Diaries, Kate examines is ambition really matters anymore after the pandemic and how we are recalibrating in the new world of work.
Once Upon a Time, “Waitress” Was a Union Job. Could History Repeat Itself?
Co-published with Slate. There was a time when hospitality industry unions were some of the most powerful and robust labor organizations in the country.