Labor
Editors' Picks
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How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Jul 06, 2015Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.
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Should Liberals Back Public Employee Unions?
Jul 12, 2015The stakes in the new battle over unions have far-reaching implications.
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How to Live Happily with Robots
Aug 03, 2015It takes extensive government intervention to assure that gains of automation are broadly shared.
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When Adjuncts Go Union
Jun 30, 2015On campuses across America, contingent faculty are fighting back against low wages and precarious employment.
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Labor at a Crossroads: The Seeds of a New Movement
Oct 30, 2014SEIU’s David Rolf—virtuoso organizer and mastermind of Seattle’s $15 minimum wage campaign—says labor needs radically new ways to champion worker interests.
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How Gilded Ages End
Apr 29, 2015Protecting democracy from oligarchic dominance is, once again, a central imperative of American politics.
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The Wealth Problem
Apr 30, 2015Aspiring to own a home and pursue an education are quintessentially American ideals. It's time to make those dreams accessible again.
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Sanders Is Trying to Have It Both Ways on Union Health Care
Aug 22, 2019He claims that Medicare for All will be comprehensive with no duplicative insurance. But he promises unions that they can have something extra.
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The Business Roundtable’s Strange Outbreak of Social Conscience
Aug 20, 2019Needed: less public relations blather and more pitchforks
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No Seat at the Table: Steven Greenhouse on Labor’s Silenced Voice
Aug 20, 2019A veteran labor reporter finds hope for unions in boycotts, minimum-wage campaigns, and strikes.
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American Airlines Sues to Make Travelers Sicker
Aug 12, 2019Like other airlines, the company has just sued to overturn a paid sick day law. Nothing like more germs in the crowded skies.
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Who’s Up, Who’s Down, Who’s Out to Lunch
Jul 31, 2019The Gang of Five won't be getting any bigger.
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A Great Labor Leader Gone
Jul 26, 2019Hector Figueroa, 1962–2019
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Eugene Scalia Once Represented a Big Bank in a Sexual Harassment Case. It Got Ugly.
Jul 22, 2019In a 2015 deposition, the Labor Secretary nominee highlighted a victim’s sexual history and intimated that she schemed to win a payday.
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The Fight for 15’s Long, Winding, and Brandeisian Road
Jul 18, 2019The progression of the Fight for 15 from a left-wing community organization and a left-wing union to left-wing cities to left-wing states to the Democratic mainstream is representative of the broader transformation of the Democratic Party in recent years.
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At Netroots Nation, a Worker’s Voice Spoke Volumes
Jul 15, 2019Sarah Woodhams, a laid-off Toys “R” Us employee, highlighted the schemes of private equity, to a somewhat baffled Julián Castro.
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Mark Janus Wants His Union Dues Back
Jul 11, 2019A year after Janus v. AFSCME, right-to-work forces organize against organized labor in California.
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The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon
Jul 10, 2019With 2.5 million third-party sellers, it’s the largest employment-related class barred from using courts for complaints, and confined to the online retailer’s private law.
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NAFTA 2.0: Can Trump Thread the Needle and Win Democratic Support?
Jul 09, 2019Stranger things have happened, but Trump needs something close to a miracle as well as restraint and compromise that would be highly out of character.
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Since Washington, D.C., Won’t Oversee Its Guest Worker Programs, Washington State Will
Jul 05, 2019Farmworkers also recently won bargaining rights in New York. But California—once the epicenter of farmworker rights—is falling behind.
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Labor Raises the Floor in Nashville
Jul 05, 2019As construction booms in an increasingly progressive city, workers find the power to unionize in the otherwise non-union South.
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How Centrists Misread Scandinavia When Attacking Bernie and Elizabeth
Jul 02, 2019Commentators like David Brooks love Scandinavian economics—except the part about unions.
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