Massive Public Transit Win in Chicago Shows the Power of Grassroots Coalitions
The upcoming overhaul of the Chicago region’s transit system shows how potent organizing around public services can be.
Labor
YES! Media’s coverage of labor includes reporting on organized labor—the power and pitfalls of unions, for instance—as well as visions of a future beyond the commodification of human labor currently enforced by racial capitalism. We lift up voices integral to emergent labor movements, as well as calls to change the way the world consumes labor and prioritizes it above human, environmental, and planetary well-being. Ultimately, our coverage envisions a world where labor is not compulsory for survival.
The World Is Burning—Does the YES! Approach Still Matter?
A Final Word from YES! Founding Editor on What We Hoped for and What Comes Next
Apocalypse Chow: Street Food Vendors Are Connoisseurs, Not Criminals
New York City’s Street Vendor Project is advocating for more official support and an end to harsh penalties.
Artists Deserve Cash With No Strings Attached
Artists contribute to the well-being of our communities. It’s time to give them a basic income.
How Including People With Disabilities Benefits Everyone
The presence of employees with disabilities can make companies and organizations more collaborative, inclusive, and attractive to job seekers.
How Popular Resistance Constrained Trump in His First Term
If activists want to oppose Trump in his second term, then they must study the successful progressive movements of his first one.
How Tariffs Can Be a Good Idea for People and the Planet
If executed correctly, tariffs can be a powerful tool for upholding labor and human rights standards.
How California’s Fast-Food Wage Hike Benefits Everyone
While pro-industry voices have criticized the minimum wage hike, a new study shows their fears are unfounded.
Can Organized Labor Survive Trump’s Second Term?
Trump’s anti-labor policies don’t mean worker-led organizing will stop or even slow down. Here’s why.
Labor Unions Prepare to Protect Workers, No Matter What
Can organized labor continue its recent momentum into the next presidential administration?
Progress 2025: A Vision for Economic Justice
A progressive alternative to Project 2025’s anti-tax, anti-worker economy includes worker protections and a strong social safety net.
Union-Busting Is Rampant. Here’s How to Fight Back.
A two-step card check process is efficient, making it easier for workers to unionize with a simple majority.
UAW Makes History at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant
The United Auto Workers’ union victory in Tennessee was the result of strategic decisions, and could herald a bright future for organized labor in the South.
Not What They Expected: Grandparents As Day Care
Expanded federal funding for child care ended Oct. 1, and in many cases, extended families, including grandparents, will shoulder the burden.
Illegally Fired Workers Fight Back
The Unemployed Workers United wants to raise the financial and political costs of illegally firing workers for union activity.
What Makes the UAW Strike Historic?
As contract negotiations broke down, the United Auto Workers authorized a historic strike at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis factories.
5 Lessons from UPS Workers’ Successful Bargaining
The UPS Teamsters flexed their collective muscle to win most of their demands from the world’s largest delivery company.
Strippers Join Servers and Baristas in New Labor Movement
The LA-based Star Garden Topless Dive Bar just voted in favor of joining the Actors’ Equity Association, making it the first unionized strip club since the now-defunct Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle.
Stronger Labor Laws Could Combat Human Trafficking
Author Melissa Hope Ditmore suggests that current political attention on human trafficking is performative rather than practical. In her new book, she makes the case for enforcing and expanding labor laws.
Preserving Labor History in the Present, for the Future
Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.
Undergrads Fight for Their Right to Organize
Long-underpaid undergrad students who work on campus are increasingly seeing the value of their labor and organizing unions.
Labor and Climate Form a More Perfect Union
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
A Growing Wave of Unionizing Drives Change
From Amazon to Starbucks, employees are demanding better pay and working conditions from companies that have long had a free hand to maximize profits at any cost.
The Underground Economy of Unpaid Care
More than 40 million people provide unpaid care for adults. My mother was one of them.
Collective Bargaining for the Workplace and Democracy
Rubynell Walker-Barbee shares her story of service workers organizing in Georgia.
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