Labor

Labor

We Could Be Looking at a Historic Healthcare Industry Strike

Overworked and underpaid, 35,000 Kaiser Permanente workers could walk off the job on Monday.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborDispatch

When Scabs Are a Danger to Public Health

United Metro Energy is risking an environmental catastrophe in Brooklyn as billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis stalls union negotiations.

Halsey Hazzard

Labor

Solidarity and Togetherness During These Bleak Times

A special conversation with close friends of the Working People podcast.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

No, the Strike Wave Is Not About Vaccine Mandates

The recent spate of militant labor action has been over workers demanding better pay and working conditions—not opposing Covid vaccine requirements.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

The Rank-and-File Fight for Direct Democracy at UAW

A conversation with Justin Mayhugh, a worker at General Motors in Kansas City, about a referendum on whether UAW members can directly elect top union officers.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Happy Striketober. Let's Restore the Legal Right to Strike.

Now's the perfect time to fight for the right to return to a job once a strike is over.

Shaun Richman

Labor

She's a 64-Year-Old Taxi Driver Drowning in Medallion Debt—And She's Fighting Back

Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborInvestigationGoodman Institute

How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster

Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing.

Alice Herman

Labor

Kellogg's Workers Are Striking Against a "Two-Tiered" System of Workplace Inequality

A conversation with Dan Osborn, who has worked at the Omaha, Nebraska, plant for 18 years.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Mississippi Believes It Can Be Organized. Does Anyone Else?

Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Wisconsin Hay Farmers vs. Big Ag

A conversation with Lisa Doerr, co-owner of a hay farm in Polk County that supplies food for small-scale livestock farmers in the area.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

The Strike Wave Is a Big Flashing Sign That We Need More New Union Organizing

If you want more strikes, make more union members.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Teamster Insurgents Could Win Their Union Election

They're planning for what comes after.

Ryan Haney

Labor

Dollar General Workers Stare Down Historic Union Vote, Vowing "We're Gonna Fight"

With little national attention, a Connecticut Dollar General store could soon help unions crack a vital low-wage industry.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

The Small-Town Beekeeper Facing Down Big Ag

A conversation with rural Wisconsin beekeeper Kristy Lynn Allen.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

In Middle America, Unions and Democrats Are Sleepwalking Into the Grave

By not organizing in decimated post-industrial towns, we're ceding ground to the right wing.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

A New Group to Organize College Football Players Just Launched. Incredible Timing.

After last week's NLRB memo made the unionization of college athletes a possibility, the CFBPA could become very important.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Hollywood’s Overworked Crews Overwhelmingly Vote to Authorize a Strike

IATSE members discuss how workers in the entertainment industry have been run into the ground—and why they're fighting back.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Why Are Major Unions Undermining the Progressive Strategy on Reconciliation?

Labor leaders from the AFL-CIO and AFT are undermining left Democrats in the reconciliation fight. But members are pushing back.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

The Mind-Blowing Political Potential of a College Football Players Union

A union of college athletes could become one of the strongest progressive institutions in the South.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Hoffa’s House Divided: The 2021 Teamster Election, Explained

A rank-and-file Teamster describes what's at stake.

Andy Sernatinger

Labor

Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB's General Counsel, Is Labor's Best Legal Friend

In an interview, Abruzzo discusses independent contractors, penalizing bad employers and what she might do to make good faith bargaining a reality in America.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

“It’s Time to Turn This Tortilla Around”: El Milagro Workers Walk Out, Demanding Fair Treatment

Alleging abusive conditions and staff shortages amid the pandemic, workers at the iconic Chicago tortillería walked off the job—only to to be locked out by management.

Jeff Schuhrke

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For Many, the Pandemic Was a Wakeup Call About Exploitative Work

The unemployment expansion showed us what work could be like if it was freely chosen.

Marie Solis