Want a Better Grocery Store? Support Union Workers. Want a Better Grocery Store? Support Union Workers.
Workers are on the front lines of an increasingly bleak shopping experience, and they bear the costs of understaffing, underinvestment in facilities, and feeble safety measures.
Mar 19, 2025 / Ella Fanger
Trump Is Fumbling the NLRB. But Amazon Workers Can Still Build Momentum. Trump Is Fumbling the NLRB. But Amazon Workers Can Still Build Momentum.
Amazon Teamsters’ December strike was the biggest in the company’s history. What does their future look like under Trump 2.0?
Feb 25, 2025 / Ella Fanger
Biden’s Domestic Reforms Don’t Add Up to the Great Society Biden’s Domestic Reforms Don’t Add Up to the Great Society
But they do signal that government can make life tangibly better.
May 13, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The True State of the Union The True State of the Union
We must listen to the cries of those who are suffering.
Mar 7, 2024 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Ban the 24-Hour Workday! Ban the 24-Hour Workday!
In some states—New York is one of them—it is still legal to hire someone for a 24-hour shift, but to only pay them for a fraction of those hours.
Nov 29, 2023 / Dawn Kikel
“Made in America” Never Meant More Ethical “Made in America” Never Meant More Ethical
Garment workers in the US are paid far below minimum wage. New legislation, if implemented successfully, would change that.
Nov 20, 2023 / Derek Guy
Las Vegas Hospitality Workers Have an Ace Up Their Sleeve Las Vegas Hospitality Workers Have an Ace Up Their Sleeve
The image of the city as an adult playground has often meant extreme and erratic change for hotels, casinos, and restaurants. The Culinary Union has had enough.
Sep 27, 2023 / Nicholas Russell
Is This a Form of Capitalism Progressives Can Embrace? Is This a Form of Capitalism Progressives Can Embrace?
Cooperatives can be part of the solution in building the working and middle class in this country.
Aug 15, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
NIH Fellows Win Recognition as Workers With the Right to Join a Union NIH Fellows Win Recognition as Workers With the Right to Join a Union
One day after a Nation story reported claims that National Institute Fellows were "trainees" not "workers," the NIH changed its mind.
Aug 14, 2023 / Peter Lucas
NIH Scientists Want a Union NIH Scientists Want a Union
Faced with an organizing campaign by the United Auto Workers, the Biden administration is claiming that fellows at the National Institutes of Health—the people who do most of the a...
Aug 8, 2023 / Peter Lucas