The Wisconsin Idea

LaborFeature

Anime Voice Actors Speak Out: It’s Not Kawaii When We Aren’t Paid

The union drive in anime dubbing.

Rohan Montgomery

Labor

Tesla Workers Announced a Union Drive. The Next Day They Were Fired.

More than 30 workers at a Tesla facility in New York were fired after going public with a union campaign. It’s the latest in a long line of alleged labor abuses by CEO Elon Musk.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

Your Smartphone Has a Human Cost

Cobalt Red examines the tech-fueled "modern-day slavery" in the Congo

Siddharth Kara

LaborCover Story

The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads

Workers say now is the time to do the impossible.

Kari Lydersen

LaborInterview

To Prevent Future Rail Tragedies, We Need to Nationalize the Rail System

“Corporate greed [is] turning railroads into banks to extract billions and billions of dollars from what should be critical infrastructure.”

Sarah Lazare

LaborDispatch

Game Workers Are About To Take On The Biggest Boss Fight Of All

Long hours, stagnant wages: a look at the landslide of union interest across the industry.

Stephen Franklin

Feature

Transphobic Violence Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum

Anti-trans hate follows an escalating script. It’s up to all of us to disrupt it.

Heron Greenesmith

Viewpoint

Americans Still Want—And Need—Medicare for All

The number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven healthcare system.

Sonali Kolhatkar

LaborViewpoint

Employers Steal Up to $50 Billion From Workers Every Year. It’s Time to Reclaim It.

A recent victory over wage theft shows what workers everywhere need to claw back their stolen pay—support, resources and enforcement.

Mindy Isser