Labor

Weathering Backlash with Care Infrastructure

The Highlander Nursery School’s free socialist early childhood education helped sustain the Southern labor movement. Here’s what we can learn.

Briana M. Bivens

The Answer to Trump’s Anti-Worker Shutdown Is Solidarity and Labor Militancy

The GOP’s assault on federal employees amid the government shutdown is far more extreme than Reagan’s PATCO union busting. The labor movement needs a more effective response this time.

Conor Lynch

Unleashing Retirement Scammers

The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients' expense.

Bryce Covert

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

Adam Mahoney

Pensions Can Be Labor’s Weapon

Workers' pensions can help seed the ground for the next generation of union members. It's time to go on offense.

Hamilton Nolan

Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt

A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions is suing the Trump administration.

Marjorie Cohn

“Starbucks Is on the Ropes,” Says SBWU President Lynne Fox, Who Is Eyeing a Strike

"Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned," Fox writes. "This includes going on strike if they must."

Lynne Fox

ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers

“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.

Sarah Lazare and Ari Bloomekatz

3 Crises Facing the Labor Movement

The slogan "Organize or Die" has become uncomfortably relevant.

Hamilton Nolan

Why the Canadian Flight Attendants’ Strike Was “A Perfect Storm” for Labor

The government’s “eyebrow-raising” penchant for breaking up strikes met its match in the woman-dominated workforce

Emma Arkell