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Truckers, Tired of Being Exposed to Hazardous Waste, Call on the Feds for Help

They say the oil and gas industry is ignoring HAZMAT procedures, endangering them and the communities they drive through.

Kim Kelly

LaborFeatureRural America

The Battle for the Future of Farmwork

Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing union effort are transforming Upstate New York into a battleground over who will grow our food and under what conditions.

Joseph Bullington

LaborPalestine

The Largest U.S. Teachers’ Union Has Voted to Cut Ties with the ADL

The three million-member National Education Association approved a measure to split with the Anti-Defamation League for not being “the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”

Emmaia Gelman

Labor

The Anti-Labor Forces Pushing the Abundance Movement

While the proponents of "abundance" may vary in their disposition toward unions, many of the organizations bankrolling the movement seek to roll back the power of organized labor.

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Labor

90 Years After Its Passage, the National Labor Relations Act Is Under Siege

The coordinated attacks on the labor movement and workers rights are continuing to chip away at union density—and corporate America is moving in for the kill.

Steve Early

Labor

A Massive ICE Prison Just Reopened in Michigan

The GEO Group-run detention center has sparked civil rights concerns in a historically Black community just a few miles away.

Jacob Wheeler

LaborInterview

“Our Biggest Fear”: A Garment Worker Organizer on the ICE Raid That Set Off Mass Protest

“They're picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work," says Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles.

Thomas Birmingham

Labor

Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back

The arrest of labor leader David Huerta in Los Angeles has put unions on the leading edge of resistance to mounting authoritarianism.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborPodcast

Is The Finish Line in Sight for the Country's Longest Ongoing Strike?

A conversation with three Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists on key updates in their two-and-a-half-year strike to win back their healthcare.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborFeatureClimate

The Flooded Future of Disaster Labor

Day laborers, a workforce threatened by Trump, are key to rebuilding after disasters.

Sarah Jaffe

LaborViewpoint

Trump’s Budget Bill Will Massively Expand the Racial Wealth Gap

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to be a disaster for Black workers.

LaToya Parker and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad

LaborInterview

What's Really Artificial About AI is AI Itself

"The phrase artificial intelligence is a marketing term that is used to sprinkle some magic fairy dust that brings the venture capital dollars."

Sarah Jaffe

LaborFeature

Donald Trump's Disastrous Scott Walker Moment

Trump and Elon Musk are making drastic cuts to the federal workforce. Unions are fighting back.

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Workers Vote to Unionize

The nation's premier cultural stage joins a chorus of voices in the arts demanding just labor conditions as a pillar of free expression.

Michelle Chen

LaborDispatch

The Cost of Salt

India’s salt-production industry has seen massive growth over the past 75 years, but the working conditions of the country’s salt pan workers are deteriorating.

Pragathi Ravi

Labor

A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.

Kim Kelly

Labor

Agreement Around Freelance Contributors to In These Times

LaborViewpoint

Trump's First 100 Days Have Been an Absolute Disaster for Workers

Trump has gutted labor rights, slashed the federal workforce, and opposed a minimum wage hike. But resistance is brewing.

Sarah Anderson

LaborDepartments

Arms and L’eggs: Workers Organize Around Job Ailments

Revisiting labor reporter David Moberg's 1983 investigation on the physical toll of industrial labor at a Hanes knitwear factory.

David Moberg

LaborViewpoint

Putting Reentry Out of Business

Unions must think beyond reform and seriously consider abolition—the elimination and eradication of carceral institutions that exacerbate violence and underprepare people for reentry.

Calvin John Smiley

LaborDispatchHousing

Home Is Where the Union Is

What tenant unions can learn from labor unions and how they can both work together to win big.

Rebecca Burns

LaborViewpoint

Rise and Unwind

We all work too much. Let’s take up the fight for more freedom and less time on the job.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborFeatureLabor Organizer of the Year

Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed

One of this year's Labor Organizer of Year awardees is anonymous. As one of the many immigrant labor leaders braving the risk of deportation, hers is a case study in how Trump is terrorizing immigrants.

Maurizio Guerrero

LaborDepartments

Why Everyone Should Be Preparing For May Day 2028

If we’re going to build enough collective power to win universal healthcare and the right to retire with dignity, then we need to tighten up.

J. Patrick Patterson