The two years we've spent in the throes of a global pandemic have brought us many stories about work—about how our jobs have changed, how we're working more or less or not at all, or the many ways we've been made to feel unsafe in our workplaces, and even how we're standing up to our bosses. In recent months, even mainstream news outlets have been devoting a lot of bandwidth to “Striketober,” when several unions across the country voted to strike within a few weeks of each other, as well as to the pioneering union drives at Starbucks and Amazon. Since coverage of labor issues and unions is generally not prioritized in the mainstream corporate media (less than 1 percent, according to one study),1 it's refreshing to see labor, union campaigns and collective bargaining talks making the headlines.2
Though there likely won't be a full-scale revival of the...
