Labor Organizing

Fight for 15

New York Fast-Food Workers Win Their Fight for $15 New York Fast-Food Workers Win Their Fight for $15

A landmark executive move will serve the state’s fast-food workers some long-overdue justice.

Jul 22, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Beijing Taxi

Cabbies Are Driving the Opposition to China’s Ridesharing Revolution Cabbies Are Driving the Opposition to China’s Ridesharing Revolution

Taxi drivers are striking back to defend their right to a fair living.

Jul 17, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Serfing the Web: On-Demand Workers Deserve a Place at the Table

Serfing the Web: On-Demand Workers Deserve a Place at the Table Serfing the Web: On-Demand Workers Deserve a Place at the Table

Workers’ voices are being excluded from discussions on the future of the “sharing economy.”

Jul 16, 2015 / Trebor Scholz and Frank Pasquale

NDWA Rally Protester

What’s Next for the Domestic Workers Movement? What’s Next for the Domestic Workers Movement?

Five years after passing a breakthrough bill of rights, activists are building power and sharpening their legislative strategy.

Jul 13, 2015 / Ai-jen Poo and Andrea Cristina Mercado

Nurses Lifting Patient

If You Could Decrease a Workplace’s Injury Rate by 65 Percent, Would You? If You Could Decrease a Workplace’s Injury Rate by 65 Percent, Would You?

When nurses can’t speak up about unsafe hospital conditions without risking their jobs, both labor and the public lose a powerful potential advocate.

Jul 8, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Allegiant Labor Dispute

This Airline’s Scheduling System Is Making Its Pilots Exhausted This Airline’s Scheduling System Is Making Its Pilots Exhausted

Would you want to travel with a company whose scheduling system is leading to fatigue and burnout for the people flying your plane?

Jul 6, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Vietnamese Factory Workers

TPP Could Actually Make Working Conditions Worse in Vietnam TPP Could Actually Make Working Conditions Worse in Vietnam

The free market won’t break the country’s manufacturers’ reliance on forced labor, child labor, and dismal wages.

Jul 1, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Nigeria, Sweden in 2015 Women's World Cup

African Artistry and Anger at the Women’s World Cup African Artistry and Anger at the Women’s World Cup

In a fashion both powerful and heartbreaking, the three African teams have left an indelible impression on the 2015 Women’s World Cup

Jul 1, 2015 / Shireen Ahmed and Dave Zirin

SEIU Wage Protest

Shouldn’t Home Care Workers Earn a Living Wage? Shouldn’t Home Care Workers Earn a Living Wage?

Massachusetts’s disability and senior care workers just got a major pay raise.

Jun 29, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Veto the Hartley-Taft labor bill

June 23, 1947: Congress Overrides Truman’s Veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act June 23, 1947: Congress Overrides Truman’s Veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act

“A bad bill has become bad law.”

Jun 23, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

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