Working In These Times

"The Companies Have Broken This Business": Hollywood Writers Begin Strike
Over 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike Tuesday, demanding fair compensation and employment guarantees from major studios and streaming giants.
Jon Queally
At UFCW, A Reform Movement Rises
Can essential workers follow auto workers and revolutionize their union?
Hamilton Nolan
Working People Podcast: University of Michigan Tried to Stop a Strike. It Didn't Go How They Planned.
Unable to stop the strike through the courts, university administrators have resorted to calling campus police, docking pay, and pressuring faculty to report on strikers, organizers say.
Maximillian Alvarez
The Upsurge Podcast: UPS Contract Negotiations Have Begun ... Sort Of.
While CEO Carol Tomé has insisted that the company and the union are "not far apart on the issues," some workers feel that their behavior at the bargaining table paints a different picture.
Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh
Brightly Colored Bandages and Bags of Ice: Meatpacking Workers Say Tyson Foods Makes Them Fight to See the Doctor
The in-house medical care at Tyson Foods allegedly conceals injuries, throwing what it’s like to be a meatpacking worker in the United States into sharp relief.
Luis Feliz Leon
Los Empacadores de Carne Dicen que Tyson Foods los hace Luchar para ir al Doctor
El equipo médico interno en Tyson Foods presuntamente oculta las lesiones, mostrando la difícil realidad de ser empacador de carne en los Estados Unidos.
Luis Feliz Leon
line worker disassembles turkey carcasses
Can Iowa Meatpacking Workers Take on Tyson?
The essential workers who fought for their lives during the pandemic are now fighting for a union.
Luis Feliz Leon
Los Empacadores de Carne Podrán Enfrentarse a Tyson?
Los trabajadores esenciales que lucharon por sus vidas tras la pandemia ahora están luchando por un sindicato.
Luis Feliz Leon
10 Years After the Rana Plaza Collapse, Has Anything Changed?
The deaths of 1,100 workers sparked reforms in Bangladesh’s garment industry. But problems persist, especially for those disabled in the collapse.
Piyas Biswas
An Explosion, Layoffs, and the End of Paper in Jay
When the Androscoggin Mill closed last month, it ended 130 years of paper making in this small, tight-knit town.
Jacob Morrison
This Is How It Spreads
The raw ingredients are finally in place for the labor movement to plant its seeds everywhere.
Hamilton Nolan
Insurance Companies are Destroying New York's Home Care Industry
“Year after year, they’ve been pocketing money meant for home care workers.”
Lily Meyersohn
“We’re Calling Bullshit”: Why Museum Workers Keep Unionizing
In Philadelphia and across the country, the movement to organize cultural workers just keeps growing.
Mindy Isser
We Shouldn’t Have to Work Ourselves to Death
Why raising the retirement age is a very bad idea.
Christopher R. Martin
France’s Pension Protests Are a Feminist Reckoning
As France heads into its eleventh general strike in three months, one thing is clear: this is not just a retirees' uprising.
Nina Pasquini
What Unionized Starbucks Workers Think of Howard Schultz’ Testimony to Bernie Sanders
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was grilled over alleged union busting in front of a congressional committee this week. That's not something you normally see in Washington.
Saurav Sarkar
How Kathy Hochul Abandoned Home Care Workers
Hochul broke her promise, but home care advocates are still fighting to make sure New York "takes care of the people who take care of people."
Lily Meyersohn
There Is Power in a Pantry
Meet the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history.
Kim Kelly
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