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Labor Day
Labor Day news and analysis from The Nation
September 3, 2017
The president is filling key positions with allies of ALEC, union busters, and a defender of sweatshop wages.
September 1, 2017
This Labor Day, don’t listen to his empty promises to protect working people.
September 7, 2016
In the bitter feud between tech firms and the taxi industry, drivers fight back with a killer app of their own: cooperative ownership.
September 6, 2016
A lot of working-class whites vote Democrat—and they are vital members of any progressive coalition.
September 4, 2016
And the party’s platform is a litany of foolish dreams and ugly thoughts.
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September 4, 2015
The Republican candidate’s backers plan to spend as much as $16 million on an anti-labor ad campaign. But it won’t work.
September 2, 2014
The business press still insists on equating strong union organizing with communism.
August 30, 2014
Education reformers have left out the human dimensions of a harsh labor market where women, like my mother, were regularly punished for not being men.
August 29, 2014
For America’s workers, Labor Day marks more than the end of summer. It’s a reminder of the struggles we have won—and those that lie ahead.
September 3, 2012
More work, less pay, longer hours, slimmer chances to advance; the message is coming up: the place of struggle is the workplace, but it’s also everywhere else.
