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Want to Help Block Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee? Voting Alone Isn’t Enough.

Avoiding conservative dominion over the Supreme Court will require a mass movement of people in the streets as well as an electoral rebuke of Trump.

Viewpoint

“We Actually Cannot Reform This Department”: A Minneapolis Councilor on the Need to Disband Police

In an interview, Minneapolis Council Member Steve Fletcher explains why his city is moving to dismantle its police department—and what lessons other cities can take.

Labor

Trump’s NLRB Quietly Makes It Riskier To Wear Union Schwag at Work

Labor

Why Did Democrats Give Trump a Win on NAFTA 2.0?

Labor

Over the Last Week, At Least 85,000 Workers Were Out on 13 Different Strikes

Labor

Trump Is Waging a War On Labor Unions, But You Wouldn’t Know It from CNN’s Dem Debate

Labor

The Next Wave of Labor Unrest Could Be in Grocery Stores

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The Democrats’ New Favorite Dog Whistle: Invoking the “Heartland”

Pundits and 2020 hopefuls are using nebulous notions of the Midwest to launder their own prejudice.

Labor

American Airlines Mechanics Are Threatening the “Bloodiest, Ugliest Battle” in Labor History

Labor

Will the Teacher Strike Wave Hit Mississippi?

Labor

The Stop & Shop Strike Is Showing There’s Still Power in a Union

Labor

Why Workers at the Biggest Grocery Chain in New England Just Authorized a Strike

Labor

Polar Vortex Shows How Incarcerated Workers Are Bearing the Brunt of Extreme Weather

Labor

Federal Employees Are Suing the Trump Administration for Forcing Them to Work for Free

Labor

In Protest of a Confederate Monument, UNC Teaching Assistants Refuse To File Grades

Labor

Bernie to Walmart: Pay Your Workers $15 an Hour, or Else

Labor

Voters Overwhelmingly Choose To Raise Wages in Two Red States

Labor

The Trucking Industry Is a “Sweatshop on Wheels.” Here’s How Kavanaugh Could Make It Worse.

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The Kavanaugh Debacle Shows How “Never-Trump” Republicans Are Frauds

These Republicans are publicly billing themselves as Trump critics. But when it comes Brett Kavanaugh, they are largely pushing the president's agenda.

Labor

In Crosshairs of Right-to-Work, Kentucky Bourbon Makers Go On Strike

Labor

Fast Food Restaurant Says Union Employees Can’t Wear “Abolish ICE” Buttons to Work

Labor

DC Transit Wanted to Give Special Transport for White Supremacists. This Union Said Hell No.

Labor

California Says Starbucks Has to Stop Stealing Its Workers’ Wages

Labor

As the Planet Warms, Can OSHA Protect Workers From Extreme Heat?

Labor

Tesla Swears It’s a Fair Employer—Yet It’s Trying to Dodge a Law That Protects Workers

Labor

Boeing Workers in S.C. Have Finally Unionized. But Trump’s Labor Board Could Kibosh It.

Labor

Police Union Is Lobbying To Expand Powers To Tase People Who Don’t Pose a Threat

Labor

Prisoners Are Organizing a Nationwide Strike Against “Modern-Day Slavery”

Labor

Tesla Workers Say Elon Musk is a Union Buster. The NLRB Just Gave Their Case a Boost.

Labor

Trump Is Making It Harder for Low-Wage Workers to Organize, But This Fast Food Union Could Win

Labor

Kentucky Teachers Are Protesting and Walking Off the Job to Save Their Pensions—And Winning

Labor

Prisoners Across Florida Went on Strike. Instead of Fair Wages, They Got Solitary.

Labor

As Goes West Virginia? Oklahoma’s Rank-and-File Teachers Are Gearing up For a Strike.

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The FBI Questioned a Black Man About Racist Extremists in Charlottesville—Now He Could Go to Prison

Authorities are arresting and charging anti-racist demonstrators for events connected to the Unite the Right rally, even though it was white supremacists who unleashed violence on the town.

Labor

West Virginia Teachers Are Staging a Statewide Strike. Here’s Why.

Labor

Trump’s Hometown Teaches a Lesson in How to Resist His Workplace Immigration Crackdown

Labor

Here’s How Trump’s Labor Department Quietly Gave Bosses Even More Power Over Their Workers

Labor

Florida Prisoners Are Preparing to Strike Against Unpaid Labor

Labor

This Florida Stealth Offensive Against Unions Could Preview GOP Onslaught in 2018

Labor

The Trump Labor Board Just Made It Harder for Fast-Food Workers to Hold Corporate Bosses Accountable

Labor

An Affordable Housing Movement Is Rising from the Wreckage of the Foreclosure Crisis

Labor

Calif. Just Passed Landmark Law to Stop Bosses From Discriminating Against People with Convictions

Labor

Oklahoma Is Imprisoning So Many People It Can’t Hire Enough Guards To Keep Up

Labor

This Lawyer Helped Reagan Bust the Air Traffic Controllers Union. Now Trump Wants Him on the NLRB.

Labor

With All Eyes on DACA, the Trump Administration Is Quietly Killing Overtime Protections

Labor

Why Defending Workers’ Rights Means Fighting ICE’s Deportation Machine

Labor

Elon Musk May Be a “Visionary,” But His Vision Doesn’t Seem To Include Unions

Labor

NPR Workers Just Showed Us Why Journalists Need to Organize