Why should capital bother to enslave labor when it can eliminate it instead?

No, the gig economy isn’t taking over. Yes, employers use it to evade, illegally, their responsibilities for employees. Enter David Weil.

It’s about overtime pay, a crucial leg of the New Deal that’s vital to a robust middle class. And the business lobby—and maybe a certain West Virginia senator—are in the way.

The union-led movement has a plan to give fast-food workers a say on the job. California could make it a reality.

Meow Wolf began as a ragtag experiment in Santa Fe. Now it’s a multimillion-dollar company, and its employees want to be recognized not only as artists but workers too.

Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s general counsel, is making sure Biden’s pro-union agenda actually gets enforced.

A strike at St. Vincent Hospital ended this week with a big win for nurses, who had complained of dangerous patient-to-staff ratios.

After managing an onslaught of calls during the pandemic, workers at the Lines for Life hotline in Oregon say they need support too.

Rather than getting higher pay or more staff, medical workers are being forced to endure looser guidelines that put everyone at greater risk.

The most important politician to ever hail from Nevada, the late senator never forgot his hardscrabble beginnings and the promises he made to the American people.

The explosive growth of Amazon warehouses accompanied its burn-and-churn approach to the workforce. No wonder it’s so hard to find a worker who remembers a tornado drill.

The 3,000-person strike at Columbia University is the largest active strike in the U.S. and marks a decades-long struggle to recognize grad-student labor.

This holiday shopping season, Covid-induced shortages meet the long-term project to squeeze retail and transport workers.

A TNR Live discussion on how the pandemic brought the dire state of care work to the fore—and what we can do about it

With prospects dimming for national Democrats to wield power, the time is ripe for the party to go local.

Kaiser Permanente’s proposal to cut wages for existing employees and pay new staff less has baffled union members, who only see the health system growing.

Amid a labor resurgence in the U.S., farmworkers struggle to recoup the momentum their movement once had.

The “Dirty Jobs” host is back with “How America Works,” reprising his favorite themes of grime, danger, and masculinity.

If Senator Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t know, please don’t tell her.

Hospital cost-cutting and systematic devaluation of nurses’ labor has been going on for decades.