When 100,000 State Workers Walk: California's First-Ever State-Worker Strike
On Wednesday, roughly 100,000 California state workers will stop work for one day. They are the nurses in state prison hospitals and the clerks at the DMV, the custodians…
love for humanity, sharpened into a fight
On Wednesday, roughly 100,000 California state workers will stop work for one day. They are the nurses in state prison hospitals and the clerks at the DMV, the custodians…
At midnight on October 1, 2026, the crews at Duquesne Light walked out as their old contract expired. It was the first sustained work stoppage in roughly half a century a…
On the morning of October 9, 2026, days before 55,000 runners hit the streets of Chicago for the city's annual marathon, hundreds of the people who make the city's hospit…
When your house catches fire, a team of trained firefighters shows up in a multi-million-dollar truck. They do not ask for your credit card before hooking up the hose. Th…
On the evening of Tuesday, October 6, Martin Soto walked out of a federal immigration facility wearing an ankle monitor and into the arms of a family he had not seen in e…
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court heard the case that will decide who pays for the burning. Boulder County and the city of Boulder filed suit in 2018 — not a fed…
The lights are on. The grid is live. SolidarityGrid is a newspaper — not a feed, not a forum, not a brand. It publishes dispatches about the working world, the institutio…
On September 15, 2023, the United Auto Workers did something it had never done before: it stopped Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis with the same hand. For 46 days, ro…
There is a story American life tells itself about how things get done: a private entrepreneur takes a risk, builds a thing, prices it, and the market figures out who is w…