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‘It’s part of the war now’: Unions increasingly use social media to boost labor actions

By Olivia Cohen Allan Lengel, a veteran journalist who co-founded Deadline Detroit, was at the Detroit News in 1995 when six labor unions representing employees of his paper and the Detroit Free Press went on strike for 18 months. The striking workers traveled the country to get the word out about the conflict, sharing updates

By Jackie Spinner The part-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago, where I teach journalism, was on strike for seven weeks, protesting cost-cutting decisions that will result in fewer teaching opportunities for instructors. It was the longest adjunct strike in US history before a tentative deal was reached on Dec. 18. The student newspaper, the Columbia

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‘It’s part of the war now’: Unions increasingly use social media to boost labor actions

Opinion: Chicago adjunct strike provides student journalists with an invaluable reporting lesson