Feb 22, 2025 | Labor, Quad-City Worker
by Andrew D On a frigid, blustery Christmas Eve, the workers at the Starbucks on 53rd St & Elmore Ave in Davenport stood defiant at the busy intersection. Workers at hundreds of stores organized under Starbucks Workers United had been on strike since December...
Feb 22, 2025 | Quad-City Worker
The Winter 2025 issue of our quarterly zine The Quad-City Worker is out now! You’ll hear from our authors talk about the Starbucks strike last year, the evils of the private healthcare industry, and the fight for trans liberations. Read the articles here on our...
Oct 26, 2024 | Quad-City Worker
by Josh L A friend and comrade asked me to write about why I joined DSA. Looking back on it, my motives were slight and small, a fragile seedling, really. I was searching for something but I couldn’t articulate for what very effectively. I might have said that I was...
Oct 26, 2024 | Quad-City Worker
by B. Maloney The current structures of power and wealth that shape our society ensures workers bear the public costs of private profits. Workers only receive a portion of the value their labor power creates. The labor force is the backbone of business profits....
Oct 26, 2024 | Labor, Quad-City Worker
The Management of Power by Leaders of Both Movement and Business Unions by See Double Union membership has statistically been shown to raise wages, increase benefits and make lives better for the people that vote “Union Yes.” However, the inner workings of a union are...
Oct 26, 2024 | Quad-City Worker
Hear from our members on why they joined DSA! “I joined the Democratic Socialists of America because I believe it is morally correct to expand democracy into all aspects of life, including the economic sphere. Today, unless you’re a capitalist, you have no...
