Labor

Union Density Went Up Last Year! Don't Get Too Excited.

When you do the math, the story is not as great as it seems.

Hamilton Nolan

Chicago Teachers Are Showing the Country How to Fight an Unsafe Reopening

As the mayor tries to force them back into schools, teachers may be headed into another strike.

Jeff Schuhrke

How the Deep Roots of Farm Labor Solidarity Helped Wisconsin Survive the Pandemic

A century of agrarian organizing pays off.

Hannah Faris

With Minimum Wage Victory in Reach, The Fight for $15 Vows Bigger Things to Come

Leaders are setting their sights on a national collective bargaining agreement.

Hamilton Nolan

The Two Things Unions Traded Away That Handed Workers to Trump

Industrial workers know their unions can't stop plant closures.

Staughton Lynd

Here's Why the People Who Pick Our Food Are Going Hungry During Covid

Historic discrimination has left farmworkers with fewer protections than other workers, a practice known as agricultural exceptionalism.

Allison Salerno

UAW Members Have an Historic Opportunity to Democratize Their Union

The UAW has been a one-party union for decades. That could all change.

Nelson Lichtenstein

The “Essential Worker” Swindle

How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.

Sarah Lazare

These Cargill Workers in Turkey Have Spent Over 1,000 Days Protesting Their Unfair Firing

A conversation with Suat Karlikaya, a lead organizer with the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers Trade Union of Turkey.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Labor Movement Has a Game Plan for the Biden Era

This time, unions intend to get something done.

Jeff Schuhrke