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Train Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community members from Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and East Palestine, Ohio to discuss life inside a sacrifice zone.

Maximillian Alvarez

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‘Treated Worse Than Cattle’

2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight.

Caitlyn Clark

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Workers’ Rights Are Plummeting Under Trump—and the World Is Taking Notice

The United States now appears on a watchlist alongside countries like Zimbabwe and the Philippines.

Luc Triangle and Cathy Feingold

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Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization

Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.

Maximillian Alvarez

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How Communities Poisoned by Data Centers and Toxic Spills Can Stand Together

“No one's coming to save these communities. They have to fight for themselves.”

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborViewpoint

Unions Should Hop on the DSA Train

It’s high time for the labor movement to join forces with the democratic socialists winning elections by putting workers over capital.

Hamilton Nolan

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Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse

As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else.

Sarah Lazare

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Affordability's Key Ingredient Is Union Power

Tripling union membership would raise wages, reduce inequality and strengthen communities. Policymakers should take note.

Heidi Shierholz

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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide

Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.

Sarah Lazare

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A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?

Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon

LaborViewpoint

What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

LaborViewpoint

Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”

How incarceration and labor are bound together.

Calvin John Smiley

LaborViewpoint

Working People Are Being Fleeced to Pay for a Bloated Military Budget

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.

Danaka Katovich

LaborPodcast

How Labor Journalists Contend With a Constricted and Polarized Media Landscape

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.

Maximillian Alvarez

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AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State

Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?

Sarah Lazare

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Your 4th of July BBQ Is More Expensive Due to Trump's Policies, Reports Claim

“Thanks to Trump’s tariffs and foreign wars, Americans won’t find any independence from inflation this Fourth of July.”

Brad Reed

Labor

Sweeping Federal Indictments of Ice Observers Net Minnesota Unionists

“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”

Sarah Lazare and Amy Livingston

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The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed

By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.

Peter Cole

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‘¡Demandamos libertad!’: Inmigrantes en huelga en prisión de Nueva Jersey

Luis Feliz Leon

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"We Demand Freedom": Immigrants on Strike in New Jersey Prison

“We are also doing this to demand freedom," said one of the workers. "We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

Luis Feliz Leon

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New owners gut Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the wake of retaliatory firings, ex-Gazette-Post seek to keep Pittsburgh journalism alive.

Maximillian Alvarez

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A Conversation With Graduate Student Workers on Strike at Harvard

More than 4,000 UAW members are on strike at Harvard University.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborDepartments

May Day and the Potency of Solidarity Against Division

International Workers' Day, aka May Day, represents a fight for a different vision of society—one where we, not a billionaire minority, can make the decisions that impact our lives.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Baristas, Billionaires, and (Alec) Baldwin

The Starbucks Baristas are Still Fighting for a Contract.

Maximillian Alvarez