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Abusive Employers Are Threatening to Call Immigration Authorities on Domestic Workers
Nearly one third of house cleaners in the Texas-Mexico border region say their employers have threatened to report them to immigration authorities, according to a... more
By Sasha Kramer
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Workplace Deaths Are Rising. Trump-Era Budget Cuts Could Make It Worse.
In an alarming development in the world of workplace safety, the latest statistics reveal that the number of accidental deaths on the job in America... more
By Bruce Vail
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Why Abolishing ICE Is Good Climate Policy
The war on terror has unleashed unspeakable cruelty. We must not rely on its institutions to fix the climate crisis. more
By Kate Aronoff
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Do We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee? A Debate.
Most workers work too much and too hard, only to benefit the idle rich. Thus, we support reducing both working hours and capital’s... more
By Rohan Grey & Raúl Carrillo
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100 Years Ago, Socialist Leader Eugene Debs Gave This Speech That Landed Him in Prison
In his famous 1918 "Canton" speech, Debs declared that "The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles." more
By Eugene Debs
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The Food Stamp Work Requirement Is a Scheme to Punish Hungry Americans
Growing up in Boonville, California in the 1990s, a friend of mine would sometimes jokingly use the phrase "the beatings will continue until morale improves."... more
By Jim Pugh
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Tesla Swears It’s a Fair Employer—Yet It’s Trying to Dodge a Law That Protects Workers
Since 2013, Tesla has fought unfair-labor-practice complaints from the NLRB, insisting it’s not a union buster and that it maintains a safe factory.... more
By Michael Arria
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Remembering Ed Sadlowski: Labor Activist, Democratic Socialist and Crusader for the Rank-and-File
The labor movement, the left, and the city of Chicago lost an icon Sunday with the passing of legendary steelworker Ed Sadlowski at the age... more
By Jeff Schuhrke
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Boeing Workers in S.C. Have Finally Unionized. But Trump’s Labor Board Could Kibosh It.
On May 31, technicians at the Boeing factory in North Charleston, South Carolina voted to unionize and join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.... more
By Michael Arria
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For Big Corporations Like Walmart, Wage Theft Penalties Are Just the Price of Doing Business
A scathing new report finds that hundreds of major corporations in the United States are repeat wage-theft offenders—committing the violations and... more
By Sasha Kramer
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Over 90% of UPS Teamsters Just Voted to Strike
Twenty-one years after the historic 1997 United Parcel Workers strike, are UPS-Teamsters ready to once again walk off the job? After Tuesday night&rsquo... more
By Joe Allen
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Rank-and-File Union Members Are Leading Another Massive Strike. This Time It’s AT&T Workers.
Thousands of AT&T employees across the Midwest are entering the sixth day of a rare, rank-and-file-led work stoppage over alleged unfair labor practices.... more
By Rebecca Burns
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The Chicago Tribune Is Finally Union as the Media Organizing Wave Intensifies
On May 7, glasses clanked and cheers echoed across a downtown Chicago bar as journalists openly celebrated what would have been a whispered fantasy just a... more
By Stephen Franklin
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How the NFL Players’ Union Can Block the League’s New Ban on Protests
On August 26, 2016, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the National Anthem, triggering a national debate around First Amendment rights of speech... more
By Kathy Wilkes
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How Mexican Teachers Unions Are Pushing the Presidential Frontrunner Left
As Mexico moves closer to the July 1 Presidential election, candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to AMLO) is signaling his... more
By Jeff Abbott
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Why 50,000 Las Vegas Workers Are on the Verge of Striking
Over the next two weeks, Las Vegas will see an even larger influx of tourists than usual as the city hosts the Stanley Cup hockey... more
By Bryce Covert
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Sex Workers Say “Trafficking” Crackdown Is Backdoor to Gentrifying New Orleans
Under the guise of protecting sex trafficking victims, the Louisiana legislature passed two bills this month that—if signed into law by the governor... more
By Casey Quinlan
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In Response to ICE Raids and Family Separation, Immigrant Communities Are Fighting Back
Since May 19, a hotline dedicated to assisting families threatened by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been ringing nonstop. That same day is when ICE... more
By Tanner Howard
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After Janus, Should Unions Abandon Exclusive Representation?
The Supreme Court is set to issue a ruling on Janus vs. AFSCME, which could have far-reaching consequences for the future of public-sector unions in... more
By Kate Bronfenbrenner, Chris Brooks, Shaun Richman
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