What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer? What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer?
After losing her seasonal position, guestworker Maria Guzman decided to stand up to her former employer.
Jun 12, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Why Are Rhode Island Democrats Blocking Minimum-Wage Increases? Why Are Rhode Island Democrats Blocking Minimum-Wage Increases?
With friends like this, who needs Republicans.
Jun 11, 2014 / Sam Adler-Bell
$15! A Great Big Wage Hike in Seattle, a Great Big Movement Nationally $15! A Great Big Wage Hike in Seattle, a Great Big Movement Nationally
As a major city opts for a minimum wage that’s double the federal rate, what seemed an improbable goal gets very real.
Jun 2, 2014 / John Nichols
How Local Governments Are Using Their Purchasing Power to End Sweatshop Labor How Local Governments Are Using Their Purchasing Power to End Sweatshop Labor
With the government's leverage as both a consumer and a steward of the public trust, the public sector can hold the line against the fashion industry’s race to the bottom
May 30, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Activists Invade the Guggenheim: Holding US Institutions Accountable for Labor Abuses in Abu Dhabi Activists Invade the Guggenheim: Holding US Institutions Accountable for Labor Abuses in Abu Dhabi
The disruption at the Guggenheim was just a visual articulation of global, grassroots demands rising outside the museum walls.
May 26, 2014 / Michelle Chen
The Fast-Food Worker Movement Has Gone Global The Fast-Food Worker Movement Has Gone Global
In a show of international solidarity, scores of fast food workers in about thirty countries walked off the job to push for improved working conditions and higher wages.
May 16, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Why I Support the Fast-Food Workers Strike Why I Support the Fast-Food Workers Strike
We are in the midst of a grassroots populist movement designed to rebalance the tilted economic scales in our country.
May 15, 2014 / Rep. Keith Ellison
NYU Just Dropped Its Contract With JanSport—Why Is That a Victory for Global Labor Rights? NYU Just Dropped Its Contract With JanSport—Why Is That a Victory for Global Labor Rights?
New York University’s Student Labor Action Movement got the the administration to finally act responsibility when doing business with the global fashion industry.
May 12, 2014 / Michelle Chen
#FastFoodGlobal: How the International Struggle Against McDonald’s Could Bring a $15 Minimum Wage to New York City #FastFoodGlobal: How the International Struggle Against McDonald’s Could Bring a $15 Minimum Wage to New York City
A year ago, many might have laughed at the idea of paying the plebe behind the counter $15 an hour. But now that workers have raised their voices, a living wage seems like a deeply...
May 9, 2014 / Michelle Chen
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Here’s What John Steinbeck Would Have Thought of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Here’s What John Steinbeck Would Have Thought of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
For seventy-five years, industry has tried to paint organized workers as "red agitators."
May 1, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel