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Teddy Ostrow is a journalist from Brooklyn covering labor and economics. He is the host of The Upsurge podcast and his work has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @TeddyOstrow.

Crown Heights Tenant Union rallies with the tenants at 567 St. Johns Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who are fighting for renovations, emergency repairs, and legally-mandated leases.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

New York’s tenant unions are playing the long game

Teddy Ostrow by Teddy Ostrow February 1, 2024February 1, 2024

The housing movement has lost its momentum. Some organizers believe the missing piece is a powerful, independent tenant union movement.

Shawn Fain, President of the United Automobile Workers, joins lawmakers at a press conference calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East outside of the U.S. Capitol on December 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

The UAW won big in 2023—and they’re not done yet

Mel BuerTeddy Ostrow by Mel Buer and Teddy Ostrow January 18, 2024January 31, 2024
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain speaks to auto workers before the arrival of President Joe Biden at the Community Complex Building on November 9, 2023, in Belvidere, Illinois. Biden was in Belvidere to celebrate the scheduled reopening of Stellantis' Belvidere Assembly Plant and the settlement of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

The Big Three have fallen

Teddy OstrowRuby Walsh by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh November 10, 2023November 10, 2023
Workers picket outside of the Ford Assembly plant as the UAW strike against the Big Three U.S. automakers continues on October 10, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
Posted inThe Upsurge

With concessions already won, the UAW strike escalates

Teddy OstrowRuby Walsh by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh October 19, 2023October 19, 2023
Posted inThe Upsurge

‘This is history’: UAW workers from the picket lines

Teddy OstrowRuby Walsh by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh September 29, 2023March 13, 2024
Shawn Fain speaks into a microphone onstage.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

‘This is for the future’: Is the UAW strike a watershed moment for worker militancy?

Teddy Ostrow by Teddy Ostrow September 21, 2023September 21, 2023
A UPS Teamsters practice picket sign and an actual Local 251 strike picket sign in the window of the Local 251 union hall.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

Why did UPS Teamsters vote yes on the deal?

Teddy Ostrow by Teddy Ostrow September 8, 2023March 13, 2024
A worker in a red shirt holds up a sign that reads "United for a Strong Contract"
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Auto workers may strike next week—here’s why

Teddy OstrowRuby Walsh by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh September 8, 2023September 9, 2023
UPS workers in their uniforms carrying practice picket signs on a sunny day
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The UPS Teamsters contract has been ratified. What now?

Teddy OstrowRuby Walsh by Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh August 24, 2023March 13, 2024
A UPS driver makes a delivery on June 30, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Teamsters organizing delivers the goods at UPS

Teddy Ostrow by Teddy Ostrow August 10, 2023August 14, 2023

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