Working In These Times

A Mexican Labor Lawyer Denounced U.S. Pressure to Reopen Maquiladoras. Then She Was Jailed.

Maurizio Guerrero

These Workers Don’t Get Aid and Are Going Hungry. A Tax on New York Billionaires Could Help Them.

Rebecca Chowdhury

Police Union Denies Racism, Calls AFL-CIO President “Disgraceful” in Irate Letter

Hamilton Nolan

Weed That’s Legal and Union: Marijuana Dispensary Becomes First in Illinois to Unionize

Jeff Schuhrke

How an Old-School Electricians Union Got Behind a Socialist Running on the Green New Deal

Mindy Isser

The Head of the South Dakota AFL-CIO Routinely Posts Ultra Right-Wing Memes on Facebook

Hamilton Nolan

Unpaid Prison Barber Made to Work During Covid Says, “We Aren’t Properly Disinfecting Anything”

Ella Fassler

AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers

Hamilton Nolan

Celebrating Juneteenth, Labor Finds Its Voice for Racial Justice

Hamilton Nolan

The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

SEIU President: Expelling Police Unions From the Labor Movement “Has to Be Considered”

Hamilton Nolan

Undocumented Farmworkers Are Refusing Covid Tests for Fear of Losing Their Jobs

Michelle Fawcett and Arun Gupta

Chicago Teachers Join the Nationwide Movement to Kick Cops Out of Schools

Indigo Olivier

Workers United Branch Calls on AFL-CIO to Expel Police Unions

Hamilton Nolan

The Most Radical Union in the U.S. Is Shutting Down the Ports on Juneteenth

Peter Cole

Assisted Living Facility Staffer Says He Was Fired for Organizing His Coworkers During the Pandemic

Hamilton Nolan

Why Our Union Is Asking the AFL-CIO to Get Rid of Police Unions

In These Times Union

The Central Issue Is Police Repression, Not Police Unions

Before rushing to expel police unions, labor needs a larger reckoning with law enforcement's role in a capitalist-colonialist state.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.