As a response to rising rental housing costs in the US, grassroots organizers are taking on their landlords by forming tenant unions and garnering the power of collective action. But what has driven this price-gouging and caused American renters to pursue these unionization efforts?

The changing nature of work, combined with precarity caused by COVID-19, is igniting an interest in a neglected model of worker-led leadership: unionization. Secretly Group Union is blazing a trail by championing the rights of the collective to safeguard jobs in the creative industries.

The SAG-AFTRA actors’ union is entering talks over the use of AI ‘digital doubles’, with threats of strike action if a deal can’t be reached. This high-profile industrial action represents a more widespread fear about how AI will affect people’s job security going forward.

Digital platforms have rewritten the contract between employees and companies, but a growing number of gig workers and creators are starting to push back. How will the growing demand for better support and pro-unionization sentiments impact this burgeoning part of the economy?