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By Our Hands: Slow Justice Still Feels Good for Teamster Fired by Union-Busters

“The whole thing took like six years. I was away from my job for six years,” said Marcus Hedger, who was illegally fired in 2010 for volunteering in his union as a shop steward.
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By Our Hands: Tough Strike Hardens Workers’ Resolve

You don’t go to work at the General Electric plant in Waterford, New York, without knowing it could have an impact on your health. You need hazmat training, fireproof clothing, special footwear, you name it.
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By Our Hands: Fast Food Fight!

“I’m not going to lie. I didn’t want to go back,” said Shantel Walker about returning to work at the Papa John’s Pizza in New York City more than a year after being fired for her activism.
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Book Review: The High Cost of the Peculiar Institution

A 62-year-old man in the antebellum South told a traveler from the North that he’d "give any man $20 to $30 down, if he could get me free."
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By Our Hands: Here’s Why Data and Graphics Reporter Jon Schleuss at the Los Angeles Times Caught the Union Bug

It’s not like Schleuss is a long-time unionist. He’s not. He’s never been a union member before, and unions weren’t a thing in his family. Schleuss, who’s married (no children, yet), comes from Arkansas, one of the least worker-friendly states in the country.
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Unionism Made Nabisco Great. Corporate Greed Is Tearing Us Down

At 4 a.m., the bridge from Washington to Oregon is gray and quiet. The seasons pass quickly after 41 years, but every morning the drive is just a little different....