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Labor Organizing
December 18, 2023
Magazine
Steven Greenhouse
How Corporations Crush New Unions
Bargaining-table negotiations over a first contract are never easy, but now they’re becoming excruciatingly slow and difficult. For companies like Trader Joe’s, that’s the goal.
December 1, 2022
Magazine
Astra Taylor
Expanding Citizen Power Beyond the Ballot Box
Responsive organizing is essential to achieving policy reform.
October 7, 2022
Bryce Covert
Restaurant Workers Who Love Tips Are Learning to Love the Minimum Wage Too
Workers in Maine, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., are campaigning to end the disparities between those who earn tips and other jobs.
May 14, 2022
Jason Linkins
Biden’s Embrace of Unions Is a Boon for Democracy
The White House’s support for labor organizing will become critical if Democrats get locked out of power at the federal level in November.
November 2, 2021
Piper French
Why Farmworkers Were Left Out of Striketober
Amid a labor resurgence in the U.S., farmworkers struggle to recoup the momentum their movement once had.
August 23, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Battle Over the Future of Gig Work Isn’t Even Close to Finished
Workers won an important decision in a California court, but with companies like Uber and Lyft vowing to fight it, the war over Prop 22 and copycat legislation has only just begun.
August 5, 2021
Esther Wang
The Cuomo Report and the #MeToo “Reckoning” That Never Really Came
In 2017, would-be Cassandras warned about witch hunts and ruined careers. In 168 pages, New York Attorney General Letitia James captured a sexist American work culture that is as poisonous as ever.
May 4, 2021
Amy Littlefield
The Rise of the Corporate-Catholic “Zombie Hospital”
A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.
April 30, 2021
Luis Feliz Leon
The Labor Battle for the Right to Pee
App delivery workers for DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats, and other tech giants are fighting for a living wage, employment status, and the simple right to pee in privacy.
March 8, 2021
Rachel M. Cohen
Inside a Long, Messy Year of Reopening Schools
Teachers unions were accused of being obstinate and compromising education. The real story is a lot more complex.
February 8, 2021
Alex Press
The Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos
The Amazon billionaire is trying to crush a unionization effort at a warehouse in Bessemer. But David and Goliath fights are in the town’s DNA.
January 6, 2021
Colette Shade
Crying at Work Isn’t the Answer
Rather than focus on normalizing weeping on the job, why not just make jobs suck less?
January 4, 2021
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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
The Artist Isn’t Dead
Eulogies for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive.
December 22, 2020
Jonah Goldman Kay
The Lethal Inequality on American Farms
During the pandemic, a broken system for migrant laborers turned even more deadly.
December 8, 2020
Nick Martin
North Carolina’s Labor Commissioner Abandons Workers One Last Time on Her Way Out the Door
In response to calls for more regulation, Cherie Berry wrote that Covid-19 was not “proven likely to cause death or serious physical harm from the perspective of an occupational hazard.”
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