Editorial Submissions

Pitch a story.
Fight for a byline.

The Union Edge is an independent labor-journalism outlet. Our readers are organizers, stewards, labor-side lawyers, and rank-and-file members who rely on us for reported coverage of the fights that shape American work. We’re open to contributions from people who live these stories or study them for a living — not generalists, not marketers, not anyone chasing a content brief. If you’ve got a reported piece on a campaign, a ruling, a contract fight, or a workplace-safety failure, we want to read it.

The Desk

Who we’re looking for

■Shop-floor organizers and stewards with a first-hand account
■Labor historians and policy researchers
■Workers’ compensation and OSHA investigators
■NLRB practitioners and labor-side attorneys
■Rank-and-file members with reported, sourced pieces

We publish people who experience or study labor. Not guest bloggers, not ghost-written corporate explainers.

Beat

Topics we cover

■Union organizing campaigns and NLRB elections
■Workplace safety and OSHA enforcement
■Collective bargaining and contract fights
■Labor policy, legislation, and court rulings
■Corporate accountability and executive conduct in labor matters

House Style

Editorial standards

Pieces typically run 800–2,000 words. We require primary sources — document links, court filings, named interviews, or on-the-record statements. No sponsored content, no disclosure-required posts, no cross-published material. Our house style is plain-English newsroom prose, inverted pyramid, lede first. If you’d read it in a union hall break room, you’re in the right register.

What You Get

What contributors get

■A byline on a long-established labor-news site read by organizers, lawyers, and working reporters
■An editorial pass from a full-time editor before publication
■A 150-word bio with links to your own site, LinkedIn, or social profiles
■Thoughtful, fact-checked treatment of your reporting — never a rush job
■A readership that skews active union members and labor academics — an audience that will actually engage with your argument

Submit a Labor Story

How to pitch

If you’re looking to write for us on labor issues, here’s what we need on first contact:

1.A one-paragraph pitch— what’s the story, why now, and what primary sources you’ve already got or can get
2.A 2–3 sentence bio— who you are, what your stake in the story is, links to prior work if you’ve got them
3.No full drafts on first contact.We’d rather talk angle before you put the hours in

We review within five business days. If we’re interested we’ll either ask for the full draft or propose a revised angle that fits our readership. If the story isn’t right for us, we’ll say so plainly so you can place it elsewhere.

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How to pitch

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