Labor
LaborInterview
After Biden Blocked Their Strike, Railroad Workers Weigh the Lesser of Two Evils
“I don’t think the screwing that we got in 2022 [is playing] any factor today,” one locomotive engineer says. “I can’t imagine any worker voting for Donald Trump.”
Maximillian Alvarez
Labor
Waffle House Workers, At the Front Lines of Disasters, Demand More
The 24-hour chain famously stays open come hell or high water (inspiring FEMA’s Waffle House Index), but pays workers as little as $3 an hour.
Kim Kelly
Labor
Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.
The Right has given us plenty of indications of the dangers a second Trump term could pose to labor. To see how bad things might get, we can look to another example of a brutally anti-labor presidency: Ronald Reagan’s.
Chris Bohner
LaborFeature
Chicago Teachers Have an Ally As Mayor—Now They’re Fighting for a Historic Contract
The Chicago Teachers Union is working to use its newfound political power to win a broad set of “common good” demands while realizing a vision of world-class public education.
Kari Lydersen
LaborInterview
The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
A discussion with Craig Gent and James Muldoon about the colonial history of tech infrastructure, its human and environmental costs, and how workers around the world are fighting back.
Sarah Jaffe
Labor
The Right Believes It Has the Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Labor Law
Unions need to plan a response now.
Shaun Richman
LaborViewpoint
Believe It Or Not, Unions Have Even Bigger Problems than the 2024 Election
With just weeks until Election Day, the current political trends are a warning siren to the labor movement.
Hamilton Nolan
Labor
The Race Against the Clock to a Workplace Heat Rule
The November election could make or break a draft federal heat protection. Workers' lives hang in the balance.
Isabel Ashford Arya
LaborViewpointClimate
The Search for Green Common Ground
A capitalist transition to electric cars pits auto workers, transit riders and frontline communities against each other. What happens when they sit down together?
Emmett Hopkins
LaborPodcast
The Long Road to Union Recognition: Trader Joe’s Workers Press On
The national chain, widely known as “Your Neighborhood Grocery Store,” continues engaging in unfair labor practices and fighting against workers’ unionization.
Maximillian Alvarez
Labor
Unions Are Hot—Just Ask the Chippendales
We talked with the husband-and-husband team that helped lead a groundbreaking union drive.
Kim Kelly
LaborViewpoint
Winning Worker Rights Requires Fixing U.S. Democracy
Gerrymandering and the filibuster are holding back wage increases, the right to unionize and other benefits for workers.
Paul Sonn
Labor
After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen
Volkswagen workers and the United Auto Workers are hoping a contract with the automaker can reverberate across the South.
Sarah Jaffe
LaborPalestineInvestigation
U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists
A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.
Shane Burley
LaborInterview
Why U.S. Labor Has a "Special Responsibility" to Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon
In a special interview, UE President Carl Rosen demands an end to U.S. military aid "because our country is the one that enables Israel to do what it’s doing.”
Sarah Lazare
LaborViewpoint
The Weird and Stupid Teamsters Non-Endorsement Fiasco
Refusing to endorse a presidential candidate will do nothing to stop Trump and the GOP’s war on workers.
Hamilton Nolan
Labor
Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, 2014–2016
United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl.
Alex Caputo-Pearl
Labor
The Baristas Who Took Over Their Café
Baltimore’s 230-year-old tradition of workplace democracy is experiencing a revival.
Osita Nwanevu
Labor
Class and Gaza Contradictions on Display at the DNC as Harris Looks to Labor to Defeat Trump
"In this struggle to compel the Democratic party, the progressive wing—along with organized labor—are making a run at the platform," says the CTU's Stacy Davis Gates.
Jacqui Germain
LaborInterview
Union Buttons are Living Labor History
A conversation with Isaac Silver on his upcoming exhibition, Emblems of Solidarity: Union Buttons & Labor History.
Natascha Elena Uhlmann
LaborElection 2024
What Sex Workers Want from Kamala Harris
In an open letter, sex workers laid out how a Harris administration could rein in danger and criminalization.
Kim Kelly
LaborViewpointPalestine
Why Is the UAW’s Federal Monitor Involving Himself in the Union’s Stance on Gaza?
The monitor tasked with overseeing the union’s compliance with a federal consent decree is inappropriately challenging the union’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Andy Levin and Sanjukta Paul
LaborFeature
The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It
“We can win more together than we can on our own.”
Sarah Jaffe
LaborElection 2024
The Labor Movement Is Giddy About Tim Walz Becoming Harris’ VP Pick
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been a strong supporter of unions and workers’ rights. Labor leaders see his elevation as a signal that Democrats are serious about empowering the working class.
Mindy Isser
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