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August 27, 2024
Timothy Noah
Kamala Harris Has Got a Game-Changing Plan for Labor in Her Hands
As vice president, she helped devise an ambitious blueprint to advance unions. Now she just needs to make it a bigger part of her campaign.
May 3, 2024
Timothy Noah
The Pitiful Penalties for Violating Labor Law
A new report details how companies face few consequences for stealing wages, employing children, and obstructing union organizing.
February 21, 2024
Matt Ford
Elon Musk and Amazon Team Up to Try to Demolish Workers’ Rights
A handful of corporations with notoriously bad labor practices are hoping to convince the Supreme Court to gut the National Labor Relations Board.
January 23, 2024
KJ Boyle
Donald Trump Is No Friend to the Working Class
It’s no contest: The Biden administration’s labor policies have been dramatically better for ordinary Americans than those of his predecessor.
January 8, 2024
Timothy Noah
Elon Musk’s Odious One-Man War Against Labor Law Just May Succeed
A lot of what the mogul does is both evil and nuts. This campaign, sad to say, is just evil.
August 30, 2023
Timothy Noah
Mitch McConnell Is Waging War on Labor. Don’t Worry, He’ll Lose.
The NLRB last week scored a huge victory for workers seeking to organize. The Senate’s strategy to hit back is just bizarre.
March 29, 2023
Timothy Noah
Howard Schultz’s Excuse for Union-Busting: I Grew Up in Public Housing!
Starbucks’s ex-CEO tells Bernie Sanders’s committee he loves his workers. Why won’t they love him back?
March 29, 2023
Prem Thakker
Howard Schultz Accidentally Admits Starbucks Violated Labor Law on Unions
The former Starbucks CEO appeared before a Senate hearing, during which he confirmed the labor violation.
May 11, 2022
Timothy Noah
Amazon to Managers: Can’t Bust a Union? You’re Fired.
Several managers at the Staten Island warehouse were canned. It looked a lot like a warning to other Amazon managers.
January 7, 2022
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Timothy Noah
The National Labor Relations Board Is Finally Doing Its Job
Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s general counsel, is making sure Biden’s pro-union agenda actually gets enforced.
September 28, 2017
Magazine
Rachel M. Cohen
The New Fight for Labor Rights
To survive in the twenty-first century, the labor movement needs to rethink its strategy.
June 26, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Obama's NLRB Defeat Was a Victory for Pragmatism
June 26, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Supreme Court's Recess Appointment Ruling Should Petrify Democrats
March 26, 2014
Marc Tracy
College Football Players Are Employees, Says Chicago NLRB
July 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Winners—and One Big Loser—of the Filibuster Fight
July 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Bring on the Nuclear Option!
July 15, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Nuclear War
Why filibuster reform matters
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