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Welcome to our story hub—a place where every voice, experience, and perspective comes together. Here, you’ll find all the stories we’ve shared across the site, from inspiring journeys and insightful interviews to behind-the-scenes moments and community highlights. Whether you’re looking to catch up, explore something new, or simply get inspired, this is your gateway to everything we’ve been talking about.

  • Event: Promising Practices: Labor and Community Fighting Sexual Harassment in the Era of #MeToo (3/23)

    Friday, March 23rd, 2018, 9am The Murphy Institute 25 W 43rd Street, 18th Floor New York, NY, 10036  RSVP HERE Friday, March 23, 9am-12:30pm Co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute, CUNY and The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR An interactive program bringing strategies, resources, and creativity together to create an equity framework for fighting harassment in…

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  • OUR Walmart Seeks Organizers (Bay Area and North Carolina)

    Apply here Oakland, CA The Organization United for Respect (OUR) is seeking a field organizer based in in the Bay Area to help build communities of support, action, and leadership among people working in low wage retail jobs and their allies. OUR is a dynamic organization of people working retail jobs dedicated to improving the…

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  • New Labor Forum Highlights: March 12th, 2018

    The New Labor Forum has a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. We break with our regular newsletter schedule to bring you a timely and important article on Italy’s 5 Star movement, whose…

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  • Gotham Gazette Seeks State Government Reporter (NYC)

    POSITION: State Government Reporter for GothamGazette.com, an online news publication published by Citizens Union Foundation (CUF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit good government organization. The reporter covers state government and politics, with a focus on the governor, state legislature, state-level elections, and other key political figures, institutions, events, and processes. The reporter is based in Albany, in a satellite…

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