Labor

Trump’s Budget Bill Will Massively Expand the Racial Wealth Gap

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to be a disaster for Black workers.

LaToya Parker and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad

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

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

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

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

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

Agreement Around Freelance Contributors to In These Times

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

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

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