Is UPS Retaliating Against Union Activists? Is UPS Retaliating Against Union Activists?
The UPS contract covering nearly 350,000 people expires next year. According to some workers, management has already launched its anti-labor fight.
Sep 27, 2022 / Teddy Ostrow
Are Rail Workers on Track to Win Better Working Conditions? Are Rail Workers on Track to Win Better Working Conditions?
A tentative deal to avert a national rail strike awaits a membership vote—and clarification of basic job protections.
Sep 15, 2022 / Mel Buer
Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized. Victory! Minor League Baseball Players Are Finally Unionized.
Thanks to grassroots organizing, which much of the media is ignoring, minor leaguers will now join the Major League Players Association.
Sep 15, 2022 / Dave Zirin
The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers
Notes from Inflation Economics 101.
Sep 15, 2022 / Robert Pollin
Therapists in California and Hawaii Are Striking for Mental Health Care Therapists in California and Hawaii Are Striking for Mental Health Care
The strike is the latest example of social justice unionism in the era of corporate health care.
Sep 8, 2022 / Dana Simon
WATCH: You Voted to Form a Union. Now What? WATCH: You Voted to Form a Union. Now What?
In the first installment of our new The Nation Explains video series, Jane McAlevey explains the core principles that can help workers win better contracts, faster.
Sep 1, 2022 / Jane McAlevey and The Nation Video
Workers Are Organizing Independently. Why Don’t Our Politicians Seem to Care? Workers Are Organizing Independently. Why Don’t Our Politicians Seem to Care?
It’s the only protection workers have against corporate resistance to unionizing.
Aug 23, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers
Gavin Newsom may have a chance to prove his commitment to the working class.
Aug 16, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement
A corrections officers’ union in New York is campaigning against new restrictions on solitary confinement—and it’s not the only union in the country opposing prison reforms.
Aug 16, 2022 / Victoria Law
Democrats Are Losing the Working Class, but You Shouldn’t Blame the Left Democrats Are Losing the Working Class, but You Shouldn’t Blame the Left
The reason people are disenchanted is that this economy doesn’t work for them.
Jul 26, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel