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
Why Progressives Want to Rewrite the Rules—and the Story—of the US Economy Why Progressives Want to Rewrite the Rules—and the Story—of the US Economy
A conversation with the Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konczal.
May 14, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Labour’s Love’s Lost Labour’s Love’s Lost
The party must renew links to British civil society.
May 13, 2015 / D.D. Guttenplan
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
Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
The president’s suggestion that his critics do not understand trade issues is “absolutely inaccurate.”
May 11, 2015 / John Nichols
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
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
How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity
Union-led action on climate change has proliferated across the country.
May 6, 2015 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher
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