Labor

Nurses in the U.S. Are Suffering "Moral Injury"

The pandemic and staffing crisis have left healthcare workers with invisible wounds.

Kari Lydersen

Starbucks Union Files Labor Complaint Claiming Store Closures Are Retaliation

The coffee chain has announced it’s closing 16 stores, including some that have recently unionized. Workers say it’s coercion against labor organizing.

Maxwell Parrott

America Is Breaking the Bargain It Made For Labor Peace

The right wing is starving the government of its ability to guarantee worker rights. Will we let them get away with it?

Hamilton Nolan

The Federal Reserve’s Answer to Inflation Is Class War

The conventional medicine for fighting inflation is to make workers pay. And that is what the Federal Reserve, with Joe Biden’s approval, is planning to do.

Hadas Thier

The CIO Was One of the Most Successful Anti-Racism Movements in U.S. History

How industrial unionism laid the groundwork for today’s anti-racist struggles.

Michael Beyea Reagan

Women Are Taking Over the U.S. Labor Movement

The pandemic has created an opportunity for new movements in industries that haven’t organized before—movements also led by women.

Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th

Frontline Physicians in L.A. Can’t Pay Rent, So They Threatened to Strike

Medical residents and interns in LA County have kept their hospitals running while making minimum wage and struggling to pay rent. Then they overwhelmingly voted to strike and won big.

Maximillian Alvarez

Louisiana Dollar Store Workers Can’t Control Air Conditioning in Their Own Stores

The pandemic and the inflation panic have been a boon to dollar stores, which are spreading rapidly throughout low-income areas and “food deserts,” but dollar store employees are being left behind. That’s why workers and community members are organizing.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Fresh Hell of Depending on Your Employer for Abortion Access

Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here's what's wrong with relying on their benevolence.

Sarah Lazare

The Creative Methods Workers Are Using to Stop Bosses' Abuse

Why we need to enforce worker protections to build the labor movement we want.

Brittany Scott