Strikes - The Cut

first person May 16, 2023

I’m a TV Writer on Food StampsWhile writers like me struggle to make ends meet, Hollywood studios get rich off the content we create.

By Jeanie Bergen

workers rights Dec. 12, 2022

‘I’m Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’Three New School and Parsons instructors spoke to the Cut about being part of the longest adjunct strike in U.S. history, which ended last weekend.

By Bindu Bansinath

strikes Apr. 11, 2022

What to Know About the Etsy StrikeThousands of sellers have suspended business on the platform to protest “pandemic profiteering.”

By Bindu Bansinath

power Jan. 21, 2021

AOC Spent Inauguration Day at a StrikeThe congresswoman joined a picket line with striking produce workers in the Bronx.

By Bridget Read

coronavirus May 27, 2020

Every Food and Delivery Strike Happening Over CoronavirusFrom Whole Foods to Instacart to McDonald’s.

By Bridget Read

power Apr. 29, 2020

AOC Wants to Cancel Your RentWith millions of Americans out of work due to the coronavirus, she’s calling for a full rent freeze.

By Bridget Read

solidarity Aug. 29, 2018

Inmates Across the Nation Are Striking Against ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ in PrisonHow to support the incarcerated people protesting against inhumane, brutal conditions in prison.

By Amanda Arnold

immigration Aug. 1, 2018

Hundreds of Detained Migrant Dads to Go on Hunger Strike Over Unjust Conditions“We are incarcerated in here and there’s not much we can do.”

By Amanda Arnold

power Mar. 14, 2018

The Uprising of Women in Red States Is Just BeginningFrom the teachers’ strikes in West Virginia to Oklahoma and beyond, working-class women have always known what it takes to fight back.

By Sarah Smarsh

international women’s day 2018 Mar. 8, 2018