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Rebecca Burns
Rebecca Burns is an award-winning investigative reporter whose work has appeared in The Baffler, the Chicago Reader, The Intercept and other outlets. She is a contributing editor at In These Times. Follow her on Twitter @rejburns.
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Chicago Teachers Didn’t Win Everything, But They’ve Transformed the City—And the Labor Movement
Chicago teachers and staff returned to the classrooms Friday after more than two weeks on strike. Their walkout lasted longer than the city’s landmark 2012 strike, as well as those in Los... MORE
Working · November 1, 2019
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Chicago’s Citywide Strike Just Spread to Charter School Teachers
More than 32,000 Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers and staff—one out every 100 people in the city—have been on strike since October 17. On Tuesday, the ranks of the striking workers&mdash... MORE
Working · October 23, 2019
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What’s at Stake in Chicago Teachers’ Strike: Whether Unions Can Bargain for the Entire Working Class
“Solving Chicago’s affordable housing crisis? What’s that got to do with a labor contract for educators?” That’s the question the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board... MORE
Working · October 14, 2019
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Amazon Worker: Why We’re Bringing the Climate Strike to Jeff Bezos
Two months after Amazon warehouse workers across the globe staged a one-day strike, the great “disruptor” is facing another workplace disruption—this time by tech workers at its Seattle headquarters. ... MORE
Working · September 12, 2019
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From Victories to Union Militancy, 5 Reasons for Workers to Celebrate This Labor Day
Labor Day often gets short shrift as a worker’s holiday. Marked primarily by sales on patio furniture and mattresses, the day also has a more muddled history than May Day, which... MORE
Working · September 2, 2019
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Angry About Low Pay and Sweltering Heat, These Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Organizing
Thousands of Amazon workers struck on “Prime Day” this week in what was perhaps the largest multinational action to date against the online behemoth. European Amazon employees have been waging coordinated... MORE
Working · July 19, 2019
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Please Let’s Never Call Uber “The Future of Work” Ever Again
It was back in 2015 that Obama administration alum David Plouffe, freshly decamped to Silicon Valley, first suggested that the gig economy was “the future of work.” MORE
Working · May 8, 2019
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Chicago’s Charter School Strike Wave Keeps On Winning
Chicago charter teachers are racking up firsts. In December 2018, Chicago saw the first-ever walkout at a charter network in the United States. And on Thursday, teachers employed by two other private operators launched... MORE
Working · May 2, 2019
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Black Workers Say Walmart’s Background Checks Are Racially Discriminatory
When Walmart announced in January that it was “in-sourcing” its Elwood, Illinois, distribution center, workers were cautiously optimistic. MORE
Working · April 25, 2019
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Tax the Hell Out of the Rich, When They’re Alive and When They’re Dead
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders each have plans to massively raise taxes on the wealthy. But there's no need to choose—we should enact them all. MORE
Views · February 8, 2019