Working Conditions

Romania International Women's Day

What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day

Over the last year, women’s rights took one step back, and two steps forward.

Mar 8, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Adam Silver

Does the NBA Have a Mental-Health Crisis on Its Hands? Does the NBA Have a Mental-Health Crisis on Its Hands?

Depression and anxiety among players is not something to scoff at or shame. It’s an objective fact, and a real product of their jobs.

Mar 7, 2019 / Dave Zirin

Municipal Workers

How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights

This union movement used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to successfully organize Dalit workers.

Mar 5, 2019 / Sujatha Fernandes

Bernie Sanders at a rally

Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike

Democrats and progressives need to focus on what the United Electrical union calls the “first major US manufacturing strike of the Trump era.”

Feb 26, 2019 / John Nichols

Denver Teachers

Denver Students Take the Lead as Teachers Strike Denver Students Take the Lead as Teachers Strike

Working-class students of color are mobilizing to support their striking teachers and against privatizing district leaders.

Feb 12, 2019 / StudentNation / Eric Blanc

Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right

Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right

Even the paid-leave programs in the US that exist fall short of what’s needed.

Feb 8, 2019 / Bryce Covert

What Rydell High School Can Teach Us about the LA Teachers Strike

What Rydell High School Can Teach Us about the LA Teachers Strike What Rydell High School Can Teach Us about the LA Teachers Strike

As teachers in Denver and Oakland head toward their own strikes, it’s worth doubling down on the lessons from LA.

Feb 7, 2019 / Feature / Sarah Jaffe

How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck

How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck

If T-Mobile and Sprint merge, it could drive down wages for retail workers by thousands of dollars a year.

Feb 6, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000

Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000 Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000

Inside an analysis of corporate legal culture.

Feb 1, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Workers protest government shutdown

It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers It’s Not a Shutdown, It’s a Lockout and a Shakedown of Federal Workers

The bland, familiar language of “shutdown” coverage fails to capture the crisis into which federal workers and their families have been thrust.

Jan 23, 2019 / John Nichols

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