Working In These Times

Joe Biden Says He Stands With Unions. This Is His Moment to Prove It.

The longest national nurses strike in over a decade could also be a "watershed moment" for Medicare for All.

Mark Dudzic and Rand Wilson

Score One for the Smithfield Workers of Sioux Falls

After suffering one of the worst workplace outbreaks of Covid-19 in the country last year, pork processors in South Dakota have secured a major labor victory.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Heat Wave Shows Climate Change Is a Workers' Rights Issue

The workers laboring outside in this extraordinary heat are on the front lines of the climate crisis.

Mindy Isser

AFL-CIO Reprimands Vermont Leader For General Strike Resolution, Saying It Could Have Given Trump "A Reason to Invoke Martial Law"

Read the full letter from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to the rebellious Vermont State Labor Council.

Hamilton Nolan

Shrugging Off Anti-Union Campaign, New York Times Tech Workers See a Chance to Make History

Times workers plan to ride the media union wave right onto a bigger wave of tech organizing.

Hamilton Nolan

For Farmworkers, the Fight for the 8-Hour Day Isn’t Over

Federal labor laws exclude farmworkers from overtime pay and other protections. After years of advocacy by farm labor groups, lawmakers in Oregon, Washington and Colorado are working to change that.

Alex Brown

No Evil But Plenty of Union Busting at Vegan Food Company

Two former workers at No Evil Foods in Asheville, North Carolina, sound off on the company's recent layoffs.

Maximillian Alvarez

Chicago Nurses Are Going on Strike—And Management Is Bringing in Scabs Through a Text Blast

Nurses and support staff in the Chicago area are joining other militant healthcare workers across the country by walking off the job, despite attempts by their bosses to hire strikebreakers.

Jeff Schuhrke

One Way to Boost Workers and the Labor Movement? Give Unions Power Over Unemployment Insurance.

A reform from Belgium in the early 1900s would both increase unemployment insurance benefits and decrease the cost of labor organizing. It’s time for the U.S. to embrace it.

Francisco Diez

A Charter School Named For the Author of "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Is Union Busting

At Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School in Massachusetts, teachers say a hostile administration is trying to crush their union.

Hamilton Nolan

Robert Reich: Blame Chipotle, Not Workers, for the Price of Your Burrito

Republicans claim stimulus payments have forced employers to overcompensate for a labor shortage. But the only shortage is of jobs that pay a living wage.

Robert Reich

The Roots of Today's White Collar Union Wave Are Deeper Than You Think

At UAW Local 2110, Maida Rosenstein has quietly organized the most prestigious group of cultural institutions on the East Coast.

Hamilton Nolan

The Painful History of Injury in the Workplace

In the latest instalment of Working People, author Nate Holdren discusses his new book, 'Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era.'

Maximillian Alvarez

The Leadership Struggle In One of California's Most Powerful Unions Just Keeps Getting Weirder

Accusations of cheating, chicanery and violent retaliation dog the SEIU Local 1000 election. The consequences for labor are very real.

Hamilton Nolan

Democrats Don't Grasp That Unions Can Transform the Electorate

Unions are machines for producing people who wouldn't be satisfied with Joe Manchin's obstinance.

Hamilton Nolan

Death and Texas

Ric Ortiz reflects on his work as the chief medical investigator for Nueces County, and the ways it has influenced his worldview.

Jules Taylor

Biden Says He Backs a Just Transition for the Climate Crisis. Advocates Say, “Prove It.”

While the administration has taken some early steps to provide support for energy workers and frontline communities in the transition away from fossil fuels, experts and activists say the crisis demands a more transformative approach.

Rachel M. Cohen

NYC's Delivery Drivers Want Employee Status, and Nothing Less

App-based workers have struggled to secure stronger labor protections. A new state bill could set them back years.

Luis Feliz Leon