Labor Archives – Scalawag

Sprint Nation: The South's track stars are after more than medals

by Hannah Borenstein October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Used to leading on the podium, Southern-born Olympic Medalist Christian Taylor now leads a global effort to organize track and field athletes.

Nurses at HCA's Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Photo from the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.

Asheville nurses reflect on the largest labor victory at a Southern nonunion hospital since 1975

by Zaina Alsous September 25, 2020October 1, 2020

Campus workers in the right-to-work South are fighting for COVID-19 conditions and beyond

by Mindy Isser September 16, 2020September 22, 2020

Q&A: Ajamu Dillahunt, long-time civil rights organizer and former USPS union president

by Jonathan Michels September 7, 2020October 1, 2020

Black New Orleans City Waste workers build power against a crisis

by Mindy Isser June 17, 2020September 16, 2020

Pay the Players: Racial equity and recognition in the NCAA

by Daniel Johnson May 26, 2020September 16, 2020

'Essential, Not Expendable'—Child care workers on the frontlines of COVID-19

by Stell Simonton May 1, 2020September 16, 2020

COVID-19: Context, tools, and strategies for workers from organizers and experts.

by Lovey Cooper March 31, 2020October 1, 2020

How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor

by Carly Berlin March 24, 2020October 27, 2020

NC workers making sub-minimum wage could get a boost on Super Tuesday

by Anna Simonton March 3, 2020September 16, 2020

Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020October 27, 2020

The Queer South: Where the past is not past, and the future is now

by Minnie Bruce Pratt January 27, 2020December 3, 2020

In spite of victory on the field, NCAA football players continue to fight off the field to receive their due

by Daniel Johnson January 14, 2020September 16, 2020

Winning labor rights in the South means changing state laws

by Carly Berlin January 13, 2020September 16, 2020

20,000 AT&T workers in the South went on strike—and won

by Carly Berlin September 9, 2019September 16, 2020

The Picture Man in Cabbagetown

by Alexandra Marvar September 5, 2019September 16, 2020

Video: In their own words, why Kentucky miners are blocking a coal train

by Shaylan Clark & Oakley Fugate August 12, 2019September 16, 2020

To Be Somebody: The Radical Southern Labor Film Tradition

by Madeleine Seidel August 5, 2019September 16, 2020

Scalawag x Burnaway: Art, Labor, and Struggle in the South

by Burnaway and Scalawag Team July 31, 2019September 16, 2020

A reason for the Tar Heel State to strike: wage theft in North Carolina's food industry

by Tina Tru March 4, 2019October 1, 2020

'If free people are not allowed to have unions, how are prisoners to have unions?': Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

by Jonathan Michels July 5, 2018September 16, 2020

'Prisoners' organizations were thought to be dangerous.': Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

by Jonathan Michels June 26, 2018September 16, 2020

'WE KNEW WHERE THE POWER WAS': Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

by Jonathan Michels June 19, 2018September 16, 2020

Georgia school bus drivers join labor revolt in public education

by Casey Williams April 26, 2018September 16, 2020

Learning from the leadership of West Virginia's striking teachers

by R. Garringer March 7, 2018September 16, 2020

The Trillbilly Workers' Party

by Lia Russell January 23, 2018September 16, 2020

In the labor movement's Achilles' heel, Black municipal workers organize Greensboro

by Eric Ginsburg August 3, 2017September 16, 2020

Photo essay: The fight for worker rights in North Carolina's meat-processing plants

by Sarah Garrahan December 14, 2016September 16, 2020

What happens when you leave poor Whites behind

by Anna Simonton November 11, 2016October 1, 2020

Bernie Sanders energized a new generation of leftist Southern politicians

by Mike Elk July 29, 2016September 16, 2020