Here are a dozen of my favorite pieces I wrote this year:

The Great Walmart Walkout, The Nation, January 7/14, 2013 issue

In Rare Strike, NYC Fast Food Workers Walk Out, Salon, November 29, 2012

On the Road With Working America, The Nation, October 29, 2012 issue

Teachers’ strike: Chicago’s just the beginning, Salon, September 17, 2012

Can You Be Fired for What You Post on Facebook?, Slate, July 3, 2012

Can Unions Bounce Back?, Salon, June 6, 2012

Wisconsin’s Resentment Factor, Salon, June 4, 2012

American Workers: Shackled to Labor Law, In These Times, May 2012 issue

Taxes For Union-Busting, Salon, April 25, 2012

March Madness Stiffs the Players, Salon, March 11, 2012

Why Should Anti-Choice and Anti-Gay Groups Have More Right to Boycott and Picket Than Unions?, In These Times, February 21, 2012

How to Fight Indiana’s “Right to Work” Law, Salon, February 3, 2012

I’ll be on vacation this coming week. Happy Holidays!

From the new issue of Working USA: The Journal of Labor & Society, here’s my review of Julius Getman’s Book Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement.

Here’s my feature in the new issue of The Nation:

The morning after Thanksgiving, as many Americans were sleeping or shopping, Walmart workers were striking. In Hanover, Maryland, a handful of strikers were joined by hundreds of supporters for an 8:30 am rally in the cold. Smiling, uniformed, ten-foot-tall cardboard cutouts of employees were emblazoned with the workers’ grievances: poverty wages, miserly benefits, dignity denied. The head of the labor group Jobs With Justice blasted Walmart for abusing workers and pushing public school privatization. Then the crowd marched, two-by-two and 400 strong, through a shopping-center parking lot. When they reached the outer edge of Walmart’s property, police were waiting to block them. “We’re just nervous,” said striker Barbara Elliot. “It’s new, what we’re doing, but we’re tired…We’re doing it for other generations, too.”

At The Nation:

About 1,000 Walmart workers in Argentina staged brief strikes last Friday, a union official told The Nation this week.

Rubén Cortina, the president of the Americas division of the global union federation UNI, said workers struck in close to ten regions of Argentina, and “almost half of the stores had some type of strike during the day.” He said those strikes generally lasted between one and three hours, as workers walked off the job to hold demonstrations inside or outside their store during part of their scheduled shift, then returned to work.

At The Nation:

Elizabeth, NJ—About sixty activists gathered early this morning outside the Port of Newark to protest the arrival of a ship they said carried Walmart goods from Bangladesh. Hoisting cardboard tombstones spelling out Walmart’s name, and garments emblazoned with the names of workers who died in the New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the crowd declared the retail giant culpable for the deaths of 112 workers in a similar fire last month in Bangladesh. Chants included, “One, two three four, don’t let that boat come ashore! Five, six, seven, eight, don’t touch that shit, don’t move that freight!”

“The supply chain needs to change…” Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN) organizer Martiza Silva-Farrell told the crowd. “This is a start.”

Read it here.

I’m excited to share that my Walmart reporting for The Nation received a Sidney award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Here’s the information.

I was on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show this morning, with Bob King and Ed Ott, to discuss what “Right to Work” does and why it passed in Michigan. Here’s the video: Part 1; Part 2.

Here’s the audio.

Thom Hartmann had me on to discuss the global day of action. Here’s the video.

I was on Al-Jazeera’s Inside Story, with Bill Fletcher Jr., discussing “Right to Work” in Michigan. Here’s the video.

Here’s the video.

Here’s the audio.