Working In These Times
The Flooded Future of Disaster Labor
Day laborers, a workforce threatened by Trump, are key to rebuilding after disasters.
Sarah Jaffe
Trump’s Budget Bill Will Massively Expand the Racial Wealth Gap
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to be a disaster for Black workers.
LaToya Parker and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
What's Really Artificial About AI is AI Itself
"The phrase artificial intelligence is a marketing term that is used to sprinkle some magic fairy dust that brings the venture capital dollars."
Sarah Jaffe
Donald Trump's Disastrous Scott Walker Moment
Trump and Elon Musk are making drastic cuts to the federal workforce. Unions are fighting back.
Sarah Jaffe
After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Workers Vote to Unionize
The nation's premier cultural stage joins a chorus of voices in the arts demanding just labor conditions as a pillar of free expression.
Michelle Chen
The Cost of Salt
India’s salt-production industry has seen massive growth over the past 75 years, but the working conditions of the country’s salt pan workers are deteriorating.
Pragathi Ravi
A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.
Kim Kelly
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Trump's First 100 Days Have Been an Absolute Disaster for Workers
Trump has gutted labor rights, slashed the federal workforce, and opposed a minimum wage hike. But resistance is brewing.
Sarah Anderson
Arms and L’eggs: Workers Organize Around Job Ailments
Revisiting labor reporter David Moberg's 1983 investigation on the physical toll of industrial labor at a Hanes knitwear factory.
David Moberg
Putting Reentry Out of Business
Unions must think beyond reform and seriously consider abolition—the elimination and eradication of carceral institutions that exacerbate violence and underprepare people for reentry.
Calvin John Smiley
Home Is Where the Union Is
What tenant unions can learn from labor unions and how they can both work together to win big.
Rebecca Burns
Rise and Unwind
We all work too much. Let’s take up the fight for more freedom and less time on the job.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed
One of this year's Labor Organizer of Year awardees is anonymous. As one of the many immigrant labor leaders braving the risk of deportation, hers is a case study in how Trump is terrorizing immigrants.
Maurizio Guerrero
Why Everyone Should Be Preparing For May Day 2028
If we’re going to build enough collective power to win universal healthcare and the right to retire with dignity, then we need to tighten up.
J. Patrick Patterson
From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power
At Beyond the Bars, we see what others refuse to see: the talent, discipline and vision of the criminalized working class.
Katherine Passley
Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day
A guide to May Day 2025 actions.
Luis Feliz Leon
Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract
The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.
Kari Lydersen
