Labor

A protest outside Google’s offices in San Francisco, Thursday, December 14, 2023.

I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.

For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

Apr 16, 2025 / Emma Jackson

Workers pack a school bus, riding from one of Central Romana’s sugar cane fields to their company housing, dank shacks that often lack electricity and running water, in El Seibo, Dominican Republic.

The Bitter Taste of Labor Violations The Bitter Taste of Labor Violations

A Trump-aligned company wins a pardon for labor violations in sugar production.

Apr 16, 2025 / Melissa Ditmore

Thousands of Teamsters march on the US Capitol on April 12, 2000, in Washington, DC, to join up with AFL-CIO union members and protest the US government's proposal for normal trade relations with China.

Labor Has a China Problem—but Not the One You Think Labor Has a China Problem—but Not the One You Think

Faced with Trump and neoliberalism, American unions are embracing one of their oldest, most dangerous tendencies: Sinophobia.

Apr 16, 2025 / Promise Li

In 2021, McDonald’s Promised to Fight Sexual Harassment—What Happened?

In 2021, McDonald’s Promised to Fight Sexual Harassment—What Happened? In 2021, McDonald’s Promised to Fight Sexual Harassment—What Happened?

An investigation by The Nation and Type Investigations raises serious questions about the effectiveness of new global brand standards at stopping harassment at the fast food giant...

Apr 14, 2025 / Feature / Bryce Covert

Bryce Covert on Empty Promises From McDonald's

Bryce Covert on Empty Promises From McDonald's Bryce Covert on Empty Promises From McDonald's

On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Bryce Covert discusses her investigative reporting on the fast food giant.

Apr 14, 2025 / Podcast / D.D. Guttenplan and Bryce Covert

The Power and Symbolism of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement

The Power and Symbolism of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement The Power and Symbolism of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement

After mobilizing to defend democracy and meet people’s immediate needs, the radical Marxist organization emerged from the Bolsonaro regime stronger than ever.

Apr 8, 2025 / Feature / Vincent Bevins

Laura Loomer, a right-wing pundit and supporter of former president Donald Trump, outside the United States Federal Courthouse where Trump is scheduled to be arraigned later in the day on June 13, 2023, in Miami, Florida.

Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration  Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration 

The ongoing internal witch hunt led by the far-right provocateur is a sign of a GOP crack-up.

Apr 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Donald Trump pumps his fist as he boards Air Force One before departing Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida, on April 3, 2025.

Trump’s Tantrum Tariffs Will Not Renew US Manufacturing Trump’s Tantrum Tariffs Will Not Renew US Manufacturing

Gimmicks like Trump’s economically ignorant, politically jingoistic, and personally self-serving tariff agenda won’t help workers in the US or abroad.

Apr 7, 2025 / John Nichols

President Donald Trump holds a reciprocal tariffs poster during a tariff announcement in the White House on April 2, 2025.

A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy

The president’s tariff war is also a constitutional crisis.

Apr 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Barney Oursler, director of the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, is photographed at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania, January 23, 2025.

The Unemployment System Is Failing Workers. Barney Oursler’s Here to Help. The Unemployment System Is Failing Workers. Barney Oursler’s Here to Help.

Oursler and his staff at the Mon Valley Unemployment Committee have shown over the past 40 years what it means to really care about workers—on the job and off.

Apr 3, 2025 / Daniel Napsha

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