Labor

She's a 64-Year-Old Taxi Driver Drowning in Medallion Debt—And She's Fighting Back

Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish.

Luis Feliz Leon

How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster

Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing.

Alice Herman

Kellogg's Workers Are Striking Against a "Two-Tiered" System of Workplace Inequality

A conversation with Dan Osborn, who has worked at the Omaha, Nebraska, plant for 18 years.

Maximillian Alvarez

Mississippi Believes It Can Be Organized. Does Anyone Else?

Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor.

Hamilton Nolan

Wisconsin Hay Farmers vs. Big Ag

A conversation with Lisa Doerr, co-owner of a hay farm in Polk County that supplies food for small-scale livestock farmers in the area.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Strike Wave Is a Big Flashing Sign That We Need More New Union Organizing

If you want more strikes, make more union members.

Hamilton Nolan

Teamster Insurgents Could Win Their Union Election

They're planning for what comes after.

Ryan Haney

Dollar General Workers Stare Down Historic Union Vote, Vowing "We're Gonna Fight"

With little national attention, a Connecticut Dollar General store could soon help unions crack a vital low-wage industry.

Hamilton Nolan

The Small-Town Beekeeper Facing Down Big Ag

A conversation with rural Wisconsin beekeeper Kristy Lynn Allen.

Maximillian Alvarez

In Middle America, Unions and Democrats Are Sleepwalking Into the Grave

By not organizing in decimated post-industrial towns, we're ceding ground to the right wing.

Hamilton Nolan