Alex Press

Oct 28, 2024 | jacobin.com | Alex Press

When Eric Adams became New York City mayor in 2022, he brought a lot of old friends to City Hall. One of those associates, from his years at the New York Police Department, is Timothy Pearson.

Oct 24, 2024 | jacobin.com | Alex Press

When New York became the first city in the country to mandate that rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft pay their drivers a minimum wage, it seemed like a major win. Low, unpredictable wages are built into the companies’ business models, predicated on their ability to classify their legions of drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, exempting companies from following labor laws that include standards like a minimum wage.

Oct 11, 2024 | znetwork.org | Tracy Rosenthal |Alex Press |Ben Mabie

Workers have been in crisis for decades. Stagnant wages have meant a declining standard of living, leading to social catastrophe. Declining life expectancy, rising alienation and estrangement, astronomical rates of violence — none of this is the direct result of jobs getting worse, but they aren’t entirely unrelated either.

Oct 9, 2024 | newlaborforum.cuny.edu | Alex Press

When Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent faculty an email with suggestions for keeping their classes on track.

Oct 4, 2024 | portside.org | Alex Press

Climate Change–Induced Disasters Are Killing Workers Published October 4, 2024 The Impact Plastics factory in rural Erwin, Tennessee, is located just a few hundred feet from the Nolichucky River. The company, founded in 1987, manufactures plastic injection molded components for original equipment manufacturers at the Erwin plant, located in the aptly named Riverview Industrial Park. Only a parking lot and two roads separate the workplace from the river.