Labor Studies
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Announcing: Digital Media Rising
In 2015, the Writer’s Guild of America, East, had their first victory organizing in digital media when writers at Gawker Media voted overwhelmingly to form a union. Five years later, it is clear that the Guild’s first organizing victory at Gawker Media was the spark that lit a fire of media workers joining unions across…
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The Unemployed Fight Back: An Interview with Frances Fox Piven
The post was originally featured at Organizing Upgrade. Reposted with permission. By Marc Kagan On April 23th, 2020, some 26.5 million Americans were unemployed, and the St. Louis Fed has estimated that 47 million people may be unemployed by the end of June, with unemployment reaching 32%. The Congressional Budget Office expects at least a 9% unemployment rate through 2021 and perhaps…
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Stephanie Luce: The Coronavirus Crisis Exposes How Fragile Capitalism Already Was
With various states moving to “re-open” the economy and bring things “back to normal,” it benefits us to look at what we might return to — and how the conditions we’ve come to accept as “normal” played such a significant role in getting us to the current crisis. In Labor Notes last month, SLU professor…
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SLU Alum Nastaran Mohit in Teen Vogue
To get more people organizing labor, more people need to know what organizers actually do. Which is why we were thrilled to see Teen Vogue feature a day in the life of Nastaran Mohit: labor champion, current organizing director of the NewsGuild of New York — and SLU alum. From the article: It’s a tough time to…
