Labor

Dispatch from the Employer Offensive: Mauser Teamsters Strike Back

Teamsters across the nation are striking to support Chicago factory workers' fight for better wages, working conditions and immigration protections.

Luis Feliz Leon

A Beautiful Rendering of Working-Class Life, Warts and All

In his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong depicts the meeting of New England’s newer low-wage immigrant working class and its older industrial working class.

Steve Early

Republicans Are Attacking the “Idle” Poor, But the Real Freeloaders Are the Rich

The GOP is defending its cruel budget bill with ancient tropes about the industrious rich and “undeserving” poor. It’s time to reverse the script.

Conor Lynch

The Growing Fight for Green Economic Populism

In Chicago and across the country, unions and progressive leaders are implementing policies to address the climate crisis while improving working people’s lives.

Ruthy Gourevitch and Batul Hassan

Student Loan Payments to ICE Agents: Unpacking Trump’s “Big, Disastrous Bill”

Two activists arrested in the fight against Trump’s landmark legislation discuss the bill’s consequences, from student debt to immigration raids.

Maximillian Alvarez

Is “Salting” the Future of Organized Labor?

Founding member of Starbucks Workers United, Jaz Brisack, shares the hard-won lessons they learned taking on a multinational corporation.

Maximillian Alvarez

Truckers, Tired of Being Exposed to Hazardous Waste, Call on the Feds for Help

They say the oil and gas industry is ignoring HAZMAT procedures, endangering them and the communities they drive through.

Kim Kelly

The Battle for the Future of Farmwork

Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing union effort are transforming Upstate New York into a battleground over who will grow our food and under what conditions.

Joseph Bullington

The Largest U.S. Teachers’ Union Has Voted to Cut Ties with the ADL

The three million-member National Education Association approved a measure to split with the Anti-Defamation League for not being “the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”

Emmaia Gelman

The Anti-Labor Forces Pushing the Abundance Movement

While the proponents of "abundance" may vary in their disposition toward unions, many of the organizations bankrolling the movement seek to roll back the power of organized labor.

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis