Labor

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

"Definitely It's Retaliation": Starbucks Closes Unionized Store in Ithaca

A conversation with Nadia Vitek, a worker-organizer with Starbucks Workers United.

Maximillian Alvarez

What It's Like Being a Gravedigger During the Pandemic

A conversation with a cemetery worker about politics, life and labor during the Covid crisis.

Maximillian Alvarez

The AFL-CIO's Official New Goal: Continued Decline

The union federation's new organizing plan aims low. Very low.

Hamilton Nolan

The Long, Uphill Battle to Unionize Workers at Religious Institutions

A conversation with Maggie Levantovskaya, a lecturer at a small Jesuit university, about how workers there formed a union, despite the fact that the National Labor Relations Board does not have jurisdiction over religious institutions.

Maximillian Alvarez

How Unions Are Fighting to Protect Abortion Rights

From collective bargaining to creative use of release time, unions can defend the reproductive freedom of their members. Here's how some are doing it.

C.M. Lewis