Nation Topics - Labor | The Nation

New York City’s school bus drivers and aides do a tough job where experience matters.

The new labor campaign against the retail giant faces daunting odds, and the stakes are high: most of us live in the Walmart economy.

Recent strikes against Walmart and fast food chains made waves, but the vast majority of service workers can’t afford to speak out.

We are delighted to announce the winners of The Nation’s seventh annual Student Writing Contest, Andrew Gambrione and Tess Saperstein.

“Debtpocalypse” is merely the latest installment in a tragic, forty-year story of the dispossession of American workers. 

This year’s historic strike wave is an indictment not just of the retail giant’s business model but of our broken labor laws.

A community college class made social justice happen on November 6.

Geoeconomic arguments about jobs smuggle in neoliberal economics under the cover of geography.

With a Democrat again in the White House for the next four years, the labor movement has won some much-needed breathing room, says organizer and author Jane McAlevey.

In the next four years—and beyond—progressives must create the political space for the president to represent the majority of Americans.