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6 days ago | inthesetimes.com | Sarah Anderson

Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of working class voters. But straight out of the blocks, his policy choices have undermined workers at nearly every turn. A recent fact sheet from the Institute for Policy Studies, Economic Policy Institute, and Repairers of the Breach rounds up the damage so far. Trump started by illegally removing National Labor Relations Board Chair Gwynne Wilcox for allegedly favoring workers’ interests over employers.

1 week ago | inthesetimes.com | Rebecca Burns

HARTFORD, CONN. — Three years ago, Dave Richardson was spending half of his monthly income on an apartment with rats, roaches and a broken elevator. A stroke had made climbing the stairs difficult, forcing him to limit trips outside of his third-floor home. Other wheelchair-bound tenants had to be physically carried up and down. The landlord was ignoring phone calls, Richardson says, but one day in 2022, a group of organizers came to his door with a pitch to build a tenants union.

1 week ago | inthesetimes.com | Tom Tomorrow |Mattie Lubchansky |Jen Sorensen |Sam Wallman

Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) is the creator of This Modern World, a weekly cartoon of political and social satire which has been a mainstay of the alternative press for more than two and a half decades. His work has also appeared in publications including The New York Times, the New Yorker, Esquire, Spin, Mother Jones, US News and World Report, the Economist, and many others. He is a two-time recipient of the Robert F.

1 week ago | inthesetimes.com | Miles Kampf-Lassin

Elon Musk loves to brag about his tireless work ethic. The Tesla CEO and world’s richest man claims he works 120 hours every week — an average of more than 17 hours per day, including Saturdays and Sundays. Now ensconced in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where Musk says his underlings keep the same grueling schedule, he has promised to bring Silicon Valley’s ​“grind culture” to the federal government.

1 week ago | inthesetimes.com | Maurizio Guerrero

This article is part of the In These Times Labor Organizer of the Year series. The award honors emerging leaders building worker power across the country. In a southern, Republican state, against incredible odds, an Indigenous immigrant managed to organize her coworkers — most of whom were, like herself, undocumented — and obtain legal protections against life-threatening working conditions in a notoriously exploitative industry.