Labor

Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes wrote “Women in the Global Factory" a now out of print pamphlet that speaks to corporate exploitation.

This summer, many workers in Britain will be going on strike for the first time in their lives.

Unions resist managers who see their job as monitoring employees to catch them doing something wrong.

Biden can require that federal contracts go only to companies that pledge to remain neutral in efforts to unionize.

These hospital strikes are the workers’ fightback; they represent a sort of trench warfare, front lines in a war of attrition, with Californians’ lives and livelihoods at stake.

An independent union relying almost entirely on volunteer organizers beat one of the world’s biggest and most fiercely anti-union companies.

U.S. workers who have been pummeled by neoliberal austerity and assaults on organized labor are fighting back.

The GOP's hard right agenda is also playing out in Republican-majority state houses with attack after attack against the rights, livelihoods and well-being of working people, women and minorities.

Tom Conway: Longtime union member knows how important it is for working people to band together—even across international borders—to fight for justice.

Mark Friedman: Amazon has spent millions on union-busting consultants and lawyers. They barrage workers with anti-union emails, texts, and letters sent to their homes.

Berry Craig: Scores of union members from coast to coast who have donated about $300,000 to help their Kentucky union brothers and sisters who were among the victims of deadly tornadoes that ravaged western and south central Kentucky.

Buddy Bell: “If you’re working 40 hours a week, on your feet, literally running around, you shouldn’t have to have another job.

Tom Conway: To sustain the kind of cross-border solidarity pivotal in these cases, the USW regularly sends delegations to Lázaro Cárdenas.

Robert Reich: Many Americans bear the consequences of decisions over globalization and technological change without knowing it.

Sonali Kolhatkar: Hershey factory workers in Virginia are sick of company abuses and are voting to join a union. But their union-busting employer has other plans.

Berry Craig: "We want Warrior Met to be successful. But they can be successful and fair to its workers and communities at the same time.”

Tom Conway: Lawmakers not only sold out teen workers, they tried to put a positive spin on it by renaming the bureau to the Bureau of Youth Employment.

April M. Short: The new “exit to community” movement is experimenting with alternatives to the go-to model for startups.