Labor Organizing

Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages

Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages

Across the country, adjunct professors are being exploited for profit, and many of them have had enough of it.

Oct 26, 2015 / Brave New Films

She Came to the US, Was Forced Into Indentured Servitude, and Now Faces Deportation

She Came to the US, Was Forced Into Indentured Servitude, and Now Faces Deportation She Came to the US, Was Forced Into Indentured Servitude, and Now Faces Deportation

Why won’t Immigration Services provide relief for this abused guestworker?

Oct 21, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Workers protest outside a B&H store in New York.

Workers Fight Back Against Racism, Wage Theft, Toxic Hazards, and Chronic Overwork at Brooklyn B&H Warehouse Workers Fight Back Against Racism, Wage Theft, Toxic Hazards, and Chronic Overwork at Brooklyn B&H Warehouse

The vintage retailer’s mom-and-pop branding doesn’t immunize it from the structural bias and exploitation pervading low-wage logistics work.

Oct 16, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Car wash workers and allies protest in Brooklyn in 2014.

The Unionization Tool Management Will Never Expect The Unionization Tool Management Will Never Expect

Members-only unions might not be as strong as regular unions, but they’re a lot easier to create in a hostile labor environment.

Oct 14, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

How the Populist Moment Will Shape the Debates How the Populist Moment Will Shape the Debates

The moment and the movements shaping it.

Oct 13, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Moral Case Against the TPP

The Moral Case Against the TPP The Moral Case Against the TPP

The TPP doesn’t just put jobs at risk. It rewrites the rules of business for big corporations—just ask Pope Francis.

Oct 13, 2015 / Manuel Pérez-Rocha

The Secret Weapon for Cutting Costs at Chinese Factories? Interns

The Secret Weapon for Cutting Costs at Chinese Factories? Interns The Secret Weapon for Cutting Costs at Chinese Factories? Interns

And you thought American interns had it rough…

Oct 12, 2015 / Michelle Chen

East Lansing union protest

The US Tells Other Countries to Respect Unions—Shouldn’t the US Do the Same? The US Tells Other Countries to Respect Unions—Shouldn’t the US Do the Same?

This country needs a Workplace Democracy Act to assure that workers who join unions do not face retaliation and barriers to collective bargaining.

Oct 6, 2015 / John Nichols

Obit Marty Beil

A Union Leader Who Always Knew Which Side He Was On A Union Leader Who Always Knew Which Side He Was On

AFSCME leader Marty Beil battled Scott Walker on behalf of public employees and the public good.

Oct 5, 2015 / John Nichols

Journalists in the newsroom at Al Jazeera America.

This Is What It Takes to Unionize a Newsroom This Is What It Takes to Unionize a Newsroom

On Tuesday, we’ll find out if Al Jazeera America’s digital editorial staff will become the latest new media workers to unionize.

Oct 5, 2015 / Michelle Chen

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