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

Labor

Toiling in the Marijuana Fields

A conversation with an organic weed grower in Alaska.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Union Density Went Up Last Year! Don't Get Too Excited.

When you do the math, the story is not as great as it seems.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Chicago Teachers Are Showing the Country How to Fight an Unsafe Reopening

As the mayor tries to force them back into schools, teachers may be headed into another strike.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

How the Deep Roots of Farm Labor Solidarity Helped Wisconsin Survive the Pandemic

A century of agrarian organizing pays off.

Hannah Faris

Labor

With Minimum Wage Victory in Reach, The Fight for $15 Vows Bigger Things to Come

Leaders are setting their sights on a national collective bargaining agreement.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

The Two Things Unions Traded Away That Handed Workers to Trump

Industrial workers know their unions can't stop plant closures.

Staughton Lynd

LaborDispatch

Here's Why the People Who Pick Our Food Are Going Hungry During Covid

Historic discrimination has left farmworkers with fewer protections than other workers, a practice known as agricultural exceptionalism.

Allison Salerno

Labor

UAW Members Have an Historic Opportunity to Democratize Their Union

The UAW has been a one-party union for decades. That could all change.

Nelson Lichtenstein

LaborViewpoint

The “Essential Worker” Swindle

How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

These Cargill Workers in Turkey Have Spent Over 1,000 Days Protesting Their Unfair Firing

A conversation with Suat Karlikaya, a lead organizer with the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers Trade Union of Turkey.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

The Labor Movement Has a Game Plan for the Biden Era

This time, unions intend to get something done.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

How Chicago Teachers Are Resisting the City's Dangerous School Reopenings

A conversation with special-ed teachers about what's at stake, and the retaliation teachers are facing for speaking out.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

The Animal Legal Defense Fund Is Busting Its Union With a Smile

A nonstop anti-union campaign comes with assurances that management is "really progressive"

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

With Democrats in Full Control, It's Time to Pass the PRO Act

A conversation with leaders of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

Maximillian Alvarez