Labor

This Is How It Spreads

The raw ingredients are finally in place for the labor movement to plant its seeds everywhere.

Hamilton Nolan

Insurance Companies are Destroying New York's Home Care Industry

“Year after year, they’ve been pocketing money meant for home care workers.”

Lily Meyersohn

“We’re Calling Bullshit”: Why Museum Workers Keep Unionizing

In Philadelphia and across the country, the movement to organize cultural workers just keeps growing.

Mindy Isser

We Shouldn’t Have to Work Ourselves to Death

Why raising the retirement age is a very bad idea.

Christopher R. Martin

France’s Pension Protests Are a Feminist Reckoning

As France heads into its eleventh general strike in three months, one thing is clear: this is not just a retirees' uprising.

Nina Pasquini

What Unionized Starbucks Workers Think of Howard Schultz’ Testimony to Bernie Sanders

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was grilled over alleged union busting in front of a congressional committee this week. That's not something you normally see in Washington.

Saurav Sarkar

How Kathy Hochul Abandoned Home Care Workers

Hochul broke her promise, but home care advocates are still fighting to make sure New York "takes care of the people who take care of people."

Lily Meyersohn

There Is Power in a Pantry

Meet the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history.

Kim Kelly

Make One Big Higher Ed Union

Campus workers are organizing more than anyone else. It's time for them to unify.

Hamilton Nolan

“If They Strike, We Won’t Cross the Picket Line”: LA Teachers And Service Workers Unite

The school district's service workers announced plans to begin a three-day strike on Tuesday. The teachers union has their back.

Megan Giovannetti and Jasmin Joseph