Labor

90 Years After Its Passage, the National Labor Relations Act Is Under Siege

The coordinated attacks on the labor movement and workers rights are continuing to chip away at union density—and corporate America is moving in for the kill.

Steve Early

A Massive ICE Prison Just Reopened in Michigan

The GEO Group-run detention center has sparked civil rights concerns in a historically Black community just a few miles away.

Jacob Wheeler

“Our Biggest Fear”: A Garment Worker Organizer on the ICE Raid That Set Off Mass Protest

“They're picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work," says Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles.

Thomas Birmingham

Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back

The arrest of labor leader David Huerta in Los Angeles has put unions on the leading edge of resistance to mounting authoritarianism.

Luis Feliz Leon

Is The Finish Line in Sight for the Country's Longest Ongoing Strike?

A conversation with three Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists on key updates in their two-and-a-half-year strike to win back their healthcare.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Flooded Future of Disaster Labor

Day laborers, a workforce threatened by Trump, are key to rebuilding after disasters.

Sarah Jaffe

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