EU Officials Are Considering Bombing Libyan Smuggling Boats. That’s the Last Thing Refugees Need. EU Officials Are Considering Bombing Libyan Smuggling Boats. That’s the Last Thing Refugees Need.
The refugees are fleeing abduction, torture, and assault—that’s why they’ll continue trying to reach Europe any way they can.
May 20, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process
Employers exploit legal loopholes to keep poverty-wage workers from earning overtime wages.
May 18, 2015 / Michelle Chen
90 Percent of the Over 10,000 Chemicals in Nail Products Haven’t Been Evaluated For Safety 90 Percent of the Over 10,000 Chemicals in Nail Products Haven’t Been Evaluated For Safety
Focusing too much on regulating retail workplaces and safety practices could let the products industry off the hook.
May 15, 2015 / Michelle Chen
The Fight For $15 Just Won a Powerful Supporter: Governor Cuomo The Fight For $15 Just Won a Powerful Supporter: Governor Cuomo
In a victory for the Fast Food workers movement, New York’s governor has created a path for wage increases through executive action.
May 13, 2015 / Michelle Chen
How Can You Get an Ethical Manicure? Support Worker Organizing How Can You Get an Ethical Manicure? Support Worker Organizing
Labor advocates are harnessing the power of both workers and consumers to reform nail salons.
May 11, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Nepal’s Double Disaster Nepal’s Double Disaster
Long before the quake, Nepal suffered the rupturing shocks of global capitalism.
May 8, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Could Yale Graduate Students Be the Next to Unionize? Could Yale Graduate Students Be the Next to Unionize?
Following the NYU and UConn victories, graduates at Yale and other universities are demanding recognition as workers.
May 6, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Why Did These Activists Shut Down the Guggenheim? Why Did These Activists Shut Down the Guggenheim?
The May Day occupation is part of an escalating campaign to get the Guggenheim to end the exploitation of migrant workers at the museum's Abu Dhabi site.
May 4, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality
What looks like a night of “chaos” in Baltimore was just one freeze-frame in a long arc of urban crisis.
May 1, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Here Are All the Ways People Are Dying at Work Here Are All the Ways People Are Dying at Work
Workers die because those in power look the other way.
Apr 29, 2015 / Michelle Chen