Is AI Crippling Our Imaginations?
Leveraged buyouts and stock buybacks have been killing tens of millions of jobs, not AI.
Hulk Hogan and the Unraveling of Worker Solidarity
Pro wrestling’s failed unionization effort – and Hogan’s alleged role in undermining that campaign – is part of a broader story about the erosion of labor’s power since the 1980s.
‘Pay Them What They Deserve’: 1 in 6 Teachers Work a Second Job
Teachers with many years of experience are just as likely to take on extra jobs as those who are just starting out, data shows.
8,000 Indiana Kroger Workers Vote Down Contract a Second Time
Kroger’s offer included a wage increase of just $0.90 over 3 years for starting pay, along with a $200 Kroger gift card that members called “insulting.”
Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide
As work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.
Why Progressive Democrats Should Welcome, Not Fear, an Independent Populist Party
Many union leaders continue the ritual, pushing union voters toward the Democrats while praying that nearly half their members who vote the other way won’t rebel. It isn’t working.
An Infrastructure for Dignity: Building a Cooperative Economy in Cincinnati
Worker-owned businesses in Ohio are providing good jobs and improving their communities.
May Day Rallies Confront Billionaire Assaults
The unifying cry was “Workers Over Billionaires.”
100 Days of the Trump Administration Onslaught Against Workers
Trump officials have gutted labor rights, slashed the federal workforce, and opposed a minimum wage hike.
Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers
The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and…
How Democrats Destroyed Civic Advocacy & Gave us Trump (w/ Ralph Nader)
Ralph Nader was at the center of the political dynamics that eventually brought us Trump. Watch him describe how the Democrats destroyed civic advocacy, and led us to the dystopian…
Federal Workers Mobilize against Musk’s and Trump’s ‘Corporate Coup’
By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes Federal employee union members have been speaking out, rallying, and suing, as agency after agency has been hit by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government…
‘For Workers, There’s Nowhere to Go’
Labor board freeze leaves thousands of workers, from Amazon to Trader Joe’s, with few options — prompting some to consider more aggressive tactics.
Amazon Stokes Racial Divides in Lead-Up to North Carolina Union Vote
The workers are organizing across racial and ethnic divides, through constant turnover, in deeply hostile terrain.
8 Ways States Can Fight Inequality and Build Worker Power
As a war on immigrants and the working class rages in Washington, state governments should use every tool at their disposal to advance a more equitable economy.