New York
Have your Uber rides gotten a lot more expensive lately? Here’s why
April 9, 2024If you’ve taken an Uber ride recently, you’ve probably noticed it cost a lot more than a few years ago. Why is that?
Read moreUnions demand Congress keep ban on ‘ghost guns’
March 22, 2024Guns with no metal in them can go through airport, bus, and train detectors and threaten transport workers.
Read moreRight-wing fever dream: New York’s bipartisan ‘law and order’ panic
March 22, 2024Armed soldiers in the streets. A Trump scheme? Nope, it’s the idea of N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Read moreEnd the 24-hour workday: NYC home health workers begin hunger strike
March 20, 2024These workers, mostly women of color, do it all—cook, clean, change diapers, administer medicine, and more—and they do it 24 hours a day.
Read moreWoolworth’s Sit-Down Strike: When women shut down the world’s biggest retailer
March 5, 2024From the archives: Learning from the UAW’s Flint Sit-Down Strike, young women workers set an example for how to organize and win in the low-wage retail sector in 1937.
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