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The changing working conditions of academic labor—and, especially, the changing demographics and views about organizing and ...

While the proponents of “abundance” may vary in their disposition toward unions, many of the organizations bankrolling the movement seek to roll back the power of organized labor. Machinists Union ...

This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable on worker power under Trump, co-published by The American Prospect. I’m a fourth-generation union glazier. I remember being a kid sitting around the ...

With the Wagner Act, the US finally came to see the success of black unions like the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, out of which leaders like A. Philip Randolph would rise to advance the ...

Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism. It’s ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

(The Contrarian) – “There’s a real inflection point this May Day,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, said about the day unions worldwide attempt to recognize workers, ...

A series of state-media reports on the theme of the May 1 International Workers Day provide a window into the CCP’s perception of labor rights in China. This week, China Daily published a series of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took more than a century for Chicago's Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there.