Nation Topics - Labor | The Nation

“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.

Anthony Nahr, a Ghanaian immigrant, died in a garage adjoining a celebrity-filled luxury apartment building in Tribeca.

In California, Michigan, Alabama and beyond, voters came out for organized labor.

Democratic candidates haven’t always had labor’s back—but Republicans are intent on ending collective bargaining altogether.

In the latest action against the union-busting low-wage retailer, labor organizers may have finally found a strategy that works.