Labor

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

LaborViewpointLabor Organizer of the Year

From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power

At Beyond the Bars, we see what others refuse to see: the talent, discipline and vision of the criminalized working class.

Katherine Passley

Labor

Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

A guide to May Day 2025 actions.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborFeature

Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract

The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.

Kari Lydersen

LaborViewpoint

Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.

Kim Kelly

LaborViewpoint

Unions Without Strikes

Today's labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

National Unions Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Workers

“We have to take actions where we can show that we can win and that help overcome people’s fear.”

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

LaborViewpoint

Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force

Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting back.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

LaborInterview

Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century

Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline.

Nick French

LaborPodcast

What Working People's Struggles to Survive The Great Depression Can Teach Us Today

Historian Dana Frank shares the stories of people who survived the Great Depression—and what lessons they offer working people today.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

‘It’s Elon Versus Everyone’: A Dire Warning From Fired Federal Workers

A discussion with Cat Farman, Jasmine McAllister and Will Munger on the Trump Admin's plans for workers and how we can fight back.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

The Big Bank Plotting to Privatize the Post Office Under Trump

A newly released memo from banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a predatory scheme to dismantle the U.S. postal service: sell off profitable parts, slash union jobs and raise prices by up to 140 percent.

Paul Prescod