Labor

At a Major Education Company, Freelancers Must Now Pay a Fee In Order to Get Paid

McGraw Hill is clawing back 2.2% of every invoice, and a worker says it feels like "wage theft."

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Unionize Goldman Sachs

It's not a joke. It's common sense.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Colectivo Could Soon Become the Largest Unionized Coffee Chain in the U.S.

Workers at the coffee chain are resisting an aggressive union-busting campaign in their fight to organize.

Alice Herman

Labor

Democrats Take the First Steps to Make Biden’s Infrastructure Bill a Climate Bill

The newly unveiled BUILD GREEN Infrastructure and Jobs Act would create good-paying union jobs while reducing carbon emissions and upgrading the country's crumbling infrastructure.

Kenny Stancil

Labor

Working People Have an Ally at the Department of Labor in Julie Su

President Joe Biden got it right with Su, a principled and practical leader committed to poor working families.

Neidi Dominguez

Labor

The Teamsters Hint at a Combative National Project to Organize Amazon

Fearing a threat to more than 100 years of worker gains, "This entire union is focused on dealing with Amazon."

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Danny Glover Sees Centuries of Struggle in the Amazon Union Drive

The famed actor and civil rights activist examines what's at stake for Black workers in Bessemer, Alabama.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

The Filibuster Is a Labor Issue

The PRO Act will not pass unless we end the filibuster. Those two things are a package deal.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

How the Democrats Blew the Last Big Labor Bill

Twelve years ago, Congress failed to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. Will the PRO Act meet the same fate?

In These Times Editors

Labor

There Are No Make or Break Moments In a Movement

It's a process, and it never ends.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

An Alabama Amazon Worker's Case for Unionization

Jennifer Bates, an employee of the Bessemer fulfillment center, explains why the forthcoming vote is so monumental.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Can a Federal Job Guarantee Unite the Left?

Rep. Ayanna Pressley's proposal aims to achieve racial, economic and environmental justice all at once.

Hamilton Nolan

LaborDispatch

The Young Socialists' School-to-Union Pipeline

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America are embracing the "rank and file strategy."

Indigo Olivier

Labor

God's Work: Labor in the Church

Rev. Lindsey Joyce of the Institute for Christian Socialism reflects on what it means to serve her community.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Texas and Florida, Defying CDC Guidance, Aren't Prioritizing Vaccination of Farmworkers

During the pandemic, farmworkers who keep food on grocery store shelves have had to choose between risking their lives and keeping their jobs.

Frank Hernandez

Labor

Democrats Can't Afford to Dilute Their $15 Minimum Wage Proposal

The wage increase in the Covid relief bill also applies to tipped workers and others making a subminimum wage. Democrats should fight tooth and nail to make it law.

s.e. smith

Labor

The Gig Economy Is a Vampire That We Shouldn't Make Peace With

If organized labor doesn't hold the line on the principle that workers are employees, we'll all live to regret it.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

The Hidden Labor of Sex Work

In the second part of a two-part interview, sex worker, activist and DACA recipient Maya Morena reflects on the unique challenges of her industry.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

This Week In Working: Amazon's Union Vote

The Working In These Times newsletter for the week of February 12

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

After Threatening Strike, Chicago Teachers Set “New Standard” With Safer School Reopening Plan

Hard-fought negotiations and a strike threat led to Chicago teachers reaching the “most comprehensive agreement for reopening schools” in the country, potentially setting a model for other districts nationwide.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

Undocumented in the Sex Industry

Maya Morena, a sex worker, activist, and DACA recipient from Honduras, examines the phenomenon of "whoreophobia," the history of vice and more.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

This Week in Working: VA Workers and Teachers Unions

The Working In These Times newsletter for the week of February 5

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Enormous VA Union Contract Moves Towards Uncertain Conclusion Under New Biden Administration

The fate of more than a quarter million federal workers is still up in the air.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

In the Shadow of Covid, ACLU Joins Non-Profit Unionization Surge

A conversation with representatives of ACLU Staff United about their unionization effort and the growing nonprofit labor movement.

Maximillian Alvarez