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January 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

As the latest COVID-19 wave leads to record-high spikes in cases, Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest public school system in the United States, enters its second day of canceled classes due to a labor dispute regarding classroom safety. Late Tuesday evening, the Chicago Teacher’s Union voted to stop in-person education and move to remote instruction […]

#Antiwork & the Digital Praise of Idleness

Dec 31, 2021 Tiran Bajgiran

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.” — Lane Kirkland Is a worker revolution quietly brewing in cyberspace? The Covid era has witnessed unprecedented grassroots mobilization of workers on digital platforms, who are finding community in pushing back against exploitative employers. Common to these […]

The Healthcare Conundrum: Who Protects Our Protectors?

Dec 29, 2021 Jasmine Loo

The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a heavy toll on the healthcare workers of America. From having to deny patients a bed due to a shortage of resources, being abused and harassed for advocating vaccines, being unable to talk to and reassure patients due to having to care for twice the usual […]

December 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Yesterday, the Kellogg strike ended after striking workers ratified a new contract broadening the scope of the company’s cost-of-living wage adjustments to cover all employees. The eleven-week strike started in early October, spanning four of Kellogg’s breakfast cereal plants. The agreement concludes a monthslong contentious negotiation, during which Kellogg controversially threatened to permanently replace striking […]

Workplace Discrimination in the Remote Environment

Dec 22, 2021 Julia Huang

More than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in roughly half of paid work hours being logged from home, many workers continue to opt into working remotely. In a survey of 33,250 participants conducted by the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute between May 2020 and March 2021, 77.6% of those able to work […]

Is There a Right Way to Secure the Right to Return?

Dec 20, 2021 Julia Huang

Imagine working for an employer for most of your life and drawing on your years of experience to help you proficiently perform your job. You invest your time, you befriend your coworkers, and you support your family with this steady stream of income. But when the global pandemic hits, due to circumstances outside of your […]

The Strike Zone—December 20, 2021

Dec 20, 2021 Alex Blutman

On December 2nd, the collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association expired, allowing the league to impose a lockout as the two sides were unable to complete an agreement before the deadline. It is baseball’s first work stoppage since the 1994-1995 strike. The league office and the union released dueling […]

Controversies Surrounding Workplace Surveillance

Dec 13, 2021 Jasmine Loo

Workplace surveillance is now almost ubiquitous, from keyloggers installed on business-issued laptops, to AI-enabled cameras giving delivery drivers performance scores, to apps that automatically track and terminate warehouse fulfilment workers who lag behind in productivity metrics. With increasing proportions of workers now working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a growing trend of […]

Death-by-a-Thousand-Papercuts: The Pandemic’s Tremendous Toll on K-12 Teachers

Dec 10, 2021 Gwendolyn Gissendanner

As K-12 schools welcomed students back to the classroom, they had to grapple with a new challenge: a nationwide teacher and staff shortage accelerated by the pandemic. The composition of these shortages differ around the country: Michigan saw a 44% increase in retirements and resignations over the past year, districts in Texas saw 400% increases […]

December 1, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

At 11:59 p.m. tonight, the contract between the Major League Baseball Players’ Association (MLBPA) and MLB team owners will expire. The two sides have been negotiating for months but the talks are, in the words of ESPN, “going nowhere fast,” rendering the prospect of a lockout increasingly likely. A lockout would freeze the entire league […]

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