Working In These Times
‘Treated Worse Than Cattle’
2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight.
Caitlyn Clark
Workers’ Rights Are Plummeting Under Trump—and the World Is Taking Notice
The United States now appears on a watchlist alongside countries like Zimbabwe and the Philippines.
Luc Triangle and Cathy Feingold
Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization
Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.
Maximillian Alvarez
How Communities Poisoned by Data Centers and Toxic Spills Can Stand Together
“No one's coming to save these communities. They have to fight for themselves.”
Maximillian Alvarez
Unions Should Hop on the DSA Train
It’s high time for the labor movement to join forces with the democratic socialists winning elections by putting workers over capital.
Hamilton Nolan
Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse
As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else.
Sarah Lazare
Affordability's Key Ingredient Is Union Power
Tripling union membership would raise wages, reduce inequality and strengthen communities. Policymakers should take note.
Heidi Shierholz
Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
Sarah Lazare
A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?
Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15
Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.
Rand Wilson and Peter Olney
Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”
How incarceration and labor are bound together.
Calvin John Smiley
Working People Are Being Fleeced to Pay for a Bloated Military Budget
While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.
Danaka Katovich
How Labor Journalists Contend With a Constricted and Polarized Media Landscape
A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.
Maximillian Alvarez
AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State
Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?
Sarah Lazare
Your 4th of July BBQ Is More Expensive Due to Trump's Policies, Reports Claim
“Thanks to Trump’s tariffs and foreign wars, Americans won’t find any independence from inflation this Fourth of July.”
Brad Reed
Sweeping Federal Indictments of Ice Observers Net Minnesota Unionists
“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”
Sarah Lazare and Amy Livingston
The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed
By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.
Peter Cole
‘¡Demandamos libertad!’: Inmigrantes en huelga en prisión de Nueva Jersey
Luis Feliz Leon