Labor

Amazon Expects Its Employees to Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines. This Amazon Picker Is Fighting Back.

Inspired by his father and grandfather, Sean Carlisle is organizing to win stronger safety measures for his fellow workers.

Michelle Chen and Molly Crabapple

The Amazon Delivery Service Worker Who’d Finally Seen Enough

As a driver for an Amazon subcontractor, Frank Chavez encountered unsanitary conditions—including bottles of his coworkers’ urine. Now he’s standing up for his rights.

Michelle Chen and Molly Crabapple

Meet the Warehouse Worker Who Took On Amazon Over Inhumane Conditions and Harassment

Hibaq Mohamed organized her community in a fight against Amazon, protesting working conditions at a fulfillment center with one of the highest rates of injury.

Michelle Chen and Molly Crabapple

Is the Conservative Case for Organized Labor an Oxymoron?

An interview with Oren Cass about the ideas behind his “Conservative Future for the American Labor Movement.”

Hamilton Nolan

Left Organizers Are Being Targeted and Persecuted

A conversation with Amanda Yee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Maximillian Alvarez

Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid the Pandemic

When workers at a pizza joint refused to train the people replacing them, they were fired. Now they're unionizing.

Alice Herman

How Amy Coney Barrett's Appointment Would Escalate the War on Workers

A conversation with labor activist and legal scholar James Gray Pope.

Alice Herman

How Trump Is Privatizing the U.S. Immigration System

The administration is allowing industries to directly control guest worker programs.

Maurizio Guerrero

Trump Is Waging War on the VA's Union, and Workers Are Living in Fear

The biggest public sector union contract in the country could be a disaster without political intervention

Hamilton Nolan

American Workers Have Lost Control of Their Time. It’s Time To Take It Back.

Whether it’s working longer hours, having no control over work schedules, or scrambling to find enough hours to pay the bills, American workers have lost control of their working time. Getting that time back is crucial—for workers’ well-being, for democracy and for weakening the tyrannical power of the boss.

Micah Uetricht